Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5017188814140
Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Languages: EnglishSubtitledMandarin ChineseOriginal LanguageEnglishDubbed
Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: February 21, 2005
Running Time: 95 minutes
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: June 05, 2003

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Accessories:

• Hero - The Documentary
• Hero (Tan Dun)

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
Director Zhang Yimou brings the sumptuous visual style of his previous films (Raise the Red Lantern, Shanghai Triad) to the high-kicking kung fu genre. A nameless warrior (Jet Li, Romeo Must Die, Once Upon a Time in China) arrives at an emperor's palace with three weapons, each belonging to a famous assassin who had sworn to kill the emperor. As the nameless man spins out his story--and the emperor presents his own interpretation of what might really have happened--each episode is drenched in red, blue, white or another dominant color. Hero combines sweeping cinematography and superb performances from the cream of the Hong Kong cinema (Maggie Cheung, Irma Vep, Comrades: Almost a Love Story; Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, In the Mood for Love, Hard Boiled; and Zhang Ziyi, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). The result is stunning, a dazzling action movie with an emotional richness that deepens with every step. --Bret Fetzer




Rating: - Tiresome paean to totalitarianism = propaganda.
I have a problem with these 'dancing on air' martial arts films, a-la Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: they look daft. Once you've seen one guy on a wire you've seen them all. Once you've seen a guy stamping his feet forty feet up a bamboo tree you say `Oh, look, a bird'. The only place where these effects have ever seemed anything other than laughable is in The Matrix: because it isn't a real world environment. There you can make allowances. Hero has lots of stylish fighting, but if you can't ... Read More

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Rating: - My favourite Chinese action film of all time; An unforgettable masterpiece.
THis film is beautiful; and there are not many action packed films that can be said to be beautifully filmed, as well as offering tense suspense and action. Colours are a core aspect of this film's meaning. It has both been very skilfully, and artistically filmed. A classic and masterpiece as well as a kung-fu film with brains.(at last!). A breathtaking cinematic experience. The film's cinematography is excellent.

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Rating: - Amazing
I could not do this film any justice to attempt to critique it. For those three people who rated one star, I feel deeply sad that you might never get to hear this amazing story. I feel sad that such disrespectful comments could be made towards one of the few, but onward going, examples of human excellence. To switch off after ten minutes, to think the film is really about flying through the air, that is the greatest travestiy.

This film falls within the halls of fame of hollywoods screenwriters, ... Read More

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Rating: - "In any war there are heroes on both sides..."
Excellent wire-work choreography is stunning to look at, but it doesn't make a great film on its own.

Initially I thought that that was all I was going to get, the film didn't seem to offer much more than the un-named hero telling three stories of how he managed to kill the three most wanted would-be assassins to the Emperor....

...But how wrong I was - what appears to be an over simplistic story ends up gloriously laced with twists and by the end of the film you fully understand, and ... Read More

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Rating: - A visual feast
Fans of the genre will not be disappointed. Good story, solid performances, some fantastic fight sequences and great colour.

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