Starring martial arts legend Jet Li in a visually stunning martial arts and cinematography epic set at the height of China’s Warring States period, the country was divided into seven kingdoms. For years, the separate kingdoms fought ruthlessly for supremacy. One King was obsessed with conquering all of China and becoming the first Emperor. He had long been the target of assassins, Broken Sword, Snow and Sky. The King had promised gold, power and a private audience with himself to anyone who defeated them. Enter the nameless soldier, Jet Li. In flashbacks, we see fight after gorgeously choreographed fight as the nameless one tells the king his version of the events. Also  Read the complete review

Hero was a movie that came highly recommended to me by basically everyone who saw it. My friends, the internet, basically everyone loved Hero, and they loved to love it. Despite the fact I've never truly enjoyed a Jet Li movie, because basically they all suck and I find him utterly worthless as a lead actor, and the fact that I wasn't exactly a huge admirer of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or any Lord of the Rings movie, other movies recommended to me by everyone, but I decided I would give Hero a chance, because I always like to give every movie as much of a chance as I can before declaring hated upon it, I mean, clearly I'm not going to go into a movie like Little ...  Read the complete review

I really do have to apologize but my new review is a film presented by Quentin Tarantino. I must say I think I am a little obsessed with his films. I also love foreign films and one of my favourites is Hero starring Jet Li. This film came out a few years ago and made quite a storm at the box office and was also nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe as Best Foreign Language Film. It was acclaimed by critics and won numerous international film awards. Hero is a visually stunning martial arts epic which sees Jet Li take up the role of a fearless warrior. He plays a soldier who rises up to defy an empire and unite a nation which has been ripped apart by ...  Read the complete review

Set in Ancient China, during the Warring States, the King of Qin (Chen Daoming) lives in his palace, isolated from everyone following many assassination attempts. He wears battle clothing all the time and forbids visitors from coming within 100 paces of his throne. A nameless warrior from a small jurisdiction(Jet Li) arrives at the palace, seeking an audience with the king. He claims to have with him the weapons of three legendary fighters of China - Long Sky (Donnie Yen), Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung) and Broken Sword (Tony Leung). Nameless presents the weapons of these three fighters to the king who then invites Jet Li to sit within ten paces of the throne to tell his ...  Read the complete review

This review, was originally written by myself, here: www.fritzlfan.wordpress.com Using a similar plot technique to Kurosawa's Rashomon, Zhang Yimou created one the great Chinese cinematic works with Hero. In the wuxia style, it manages to not only become a superb film in itself, but it surpasses the most acclaimed and well known film of its kind, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Though the plot has been critisized on numerous occasions, it quite frankly does not matter. With outstanding cinematography and martial arts choreography, Hero elevates itself to being a great of early 21st century cinema. Each fight scene has a different colour from ...  Read the complete review