Synopsis
During China's Warring States period, a district prefect arrives at the palace of Qin Shi Huang, claiming to have killed the three assassins who had made an attempt on the king's life three years ago.
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Jet LiNameless
- Tony Leung Chiu-waiBroken Sword
- Maggie CheungFlying Snow
- Donnie YenSky
- Zhang ZiyiMoon
- Chen DaomingKing of Qin
- Zhongyuan LiuOld Scholar
- Tianyong ZhengOld Servant
- Qin YanPrime Minister
- Zhang YakunThe Qin Guards' Commander
Recommendations
- 100
Time
Hero is the masterpiece. It employs unparalleled visual splendor to show why men must make war to secure the peace and how warriors may find their true destiny as lovers. - 90
L.A. Weekly
Hero is an epic, evocative of another epoch and of landscapes beyond time. It's overwhelming. And yet I miss the animating anger of Zhang's early masterworks, in which penniless young lovers were oppressed by impotent old men. - 88
Miami Herald
If you found "Crouching Tiger" a stunning bore, you probably won't fall under Hero's spell. But the rest of us, well, we'll be more than happy to savor every moment of its strange, ravishing beauty. - 88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Its stars - especially the photogenic Leung and Cheung, fresh from Wong Kar Wai's jazzy romance In the Mood for Love - are wonderfully charismatic. And wonderfully athletic. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
I wish 'Hero's emotional heat rose more intensely -- more recklessly. There's something grand but distant and almost fetishistic about the operatic solemnity with which Zhang approaches the Rashomonic story of assassins attempting to kill a king. - 80
Film Threat
Hero is not a CTHD clone; it’s a wonderful movie in its own right, staking its own territory as a dreamlike meditation on motivation and love. - 80
Variety
A dazzlingly lensed, highly stylized meditation on heroism. - 75
ReelViews
If there's a drawback, it's that the plot is trite. Hero is an exemplary example of visual poetry. The narrative is clearly of secondary concern.
