Storyline
One man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China.
Directors
Cast
James Hong, Maggie Cheung, James Sie, Donnie Yen, Jet Li, Zhang Ziyi, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Chen Dao-Ming, Liu Zhong Yuan, Zheng Tia Yong, Yan Qin, Chang Xiao Yang, Xia Bin, Hua Cao, Heizi, Ma Wen Hua, Xu Kuang Hua, Li Lei, Emil Lin, Liu Jie, Bruce Locke, Jin Ming, Angela Oh, Peng Qiang, Elizabeth Sung, Shou Xin Wang, Yakun Zhang
Trailer
Reviews
100
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
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
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
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.
