Sunday, January 22, 2012

Film: Hero directed by Yimou Zhang

A film about the time before the first emperor of China, about trying to unite the various kingdoms and form one China. The plot centres around an assassin who has defeated the major threats to the most powerful leader of one of the kingdoms.

There are many twists and turns, some epic fighting scenes. The fighting is fantasy martial arts with flying and supernatural powers - this for me detracts from the film a little. Also every defeat in battle, the defeated is granted an over symbolic final last words scene - rather than just dieing!

Still a good film with good action sequences with a good background plot to keep the intrigue doing.

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