Hero was a movie critically acclaimed for its visually spectacular martial arts on screen. It took me over 19 years to watch Hero but when the opportunity finally came to check it out, I found the movie to be fairly disappointing. The story was fairly slow and full of air and overall uninteresting. I found it hard to follow what the movie was about and by the end I didn't care too much how the movie turned out, instead I was waiting on the movie to end.
I can't fault the fight sequences. They looked visually dazzling and was one of the few movies that didn't rely on blood and gore to make it more appealing.
I've always enjoyed watching Jet Li on screen. I enjoyed watching him in a lot of his old movies from Hong Kong and also when he came to the USA where he made his mark with movies such as Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), Romeo Must Die (2000), Kiss Of The Dragon (2001), Cradle 2 The Grave (2003), and The Expendables trilogy (2010, 2012 and 2014 respectively). Hero was meant to be one of his most famous movies, but despite how popular the movie is it just didn't hold my interest.
I'm sure I'll get plenty of people including friends who will think I'm mad as to why I'm not a fan of the movie. But to each their own.
Hero was a movie which turned out to be very overrated and disappointing.
5/10.
I can't fault the fight sequences. They looked visually dazzling and was one of the few movies that didn't rely on blood and gore to make it more appealing.
I've always enjoyed watching Jet Li on screen. I enjoyed watching him in a lot of his old movies from Hong Kong and also when he came to the USA where he made his mark with movies such as Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), Romeo Must Die (2000), Kiss Of The Dragon (2001), Cradle 2 The Grave (2003), and The Expendables trilogy (2010, 2012 and 2014 respectively). Hero was meant to be one of his most famous movies, but despite how popular the movie is it just didn't hold my interest.
I'm sure I'll get plenty of people including friends who will think I'm mad as to why I'm not a fan of the movie. But to each their own.
Hero was a movie which turned out to be very overrated and disappointing.
5/10.