Thursday, 7 October 2004
Hero
Hero is a movie about a valiant warrior who has rid the Qui-chin nation ofthree assassins who had plotted and attempted to terminate the emperor. The story starts with the "hero" telling his story to the emperor. The emperor doesn't buy the hero's original story, so the story gets re-told a number of times with a new twist occurring during each recounting.
Last Friday, I went and saw Hero. Once it ended, I had absolutely noopinion either way about this film. The story line was interesting andentertaining, the cinematography was incredible, and the fight scenes wereboth fantastical and full of action. The most incredible scene of themovie which highlighted both the cinematography and action was a fight scenein the falling autumn leaves. It was truly spectacular. In addition, thedirector's use of color to separate scenes and the panoramic views of thecountryside provided wonderfully appealing visuals throughout the movie.The only downside was the sub-titling which caused you to have to read themovie.
So you would have thought I loved the movie. Right? But for some reason Ididn't. I thought the movie was okay. Upon reflection, I know what botheredme about the movie. Its pace was to slow for starters, but moreimportantly, I had no emotional connections with the characters. Eventhough much of the movie develops the characters, I didn't reallycare what happened to any of them. The combination of those two elementscaused me to walk away from the movie shrugging my shoulders.
I would give this movie a rating of 3.5 stars out of 5
