HERO (Released to the Palm Springs International Film Festival, Palm Springs, California USA 2003) Movie Critique

Ben Meyers’ rating of Hero is 4.3|5.0 Starsìììì

Hero is a great Chinese culture study film with good special effects. While a few flying scenes need improvement (such as the scenes where Jet Li drops from fighting several men at a shrine to fighting one man); overall, the fight scenes are very good and produce a pronounced entertainment effect. The acting is quite good.

Film Poster Courtesy of Wikipedia

Hero is about:

Nameless (Jet Li), a name he gave himself because his parents were unable to name him, develops a plan to kill Chinese Emperor Qin (Daoming Chen), the first emperor to rule China, who desires unification of states of China.

Additional Thanks to Cast and Crew of Hero

Cast include: Thank you to actor/actresses: Jet Li, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang, Daoming Chen, Donnie Yen, Zhongyuan Liu, Tianyong Zheng, and Yan Qin for making this film possible. Crew include: Thank you to Director Yimou Zhang for directing efforts. Thank you to Executive Producers Shoufang Dou and Weiping Zhang for making the film possible.

Buy a ticket? Yes? No? Maybe?

Yes. Terrific Chinese film. Can’t beat this for good entertainment.

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Ben Meyers