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Tonight I somehow managed to get off from work early and saw Hero with a few friends.
I must say, wonderfully choreographed fight scenes, absolutely stunning visuals, but a horridly convoluted plot. I even began to question the use of monochromatic color schemes, which at first seemed clever, by the end of the movie. Overall, I was disappointed. The story line should have been either dumbed-down enough to become comprehensible, or at least been made coherent enough to follow. The fact that it was in Mandarin with english subtitles didn't help much either. I mean, Mandarin goes by super-friggin-fast. If you let your gaurd down, you'll often miss the last word of a sentence. However, it wouldn't really matter if the movie was in english our not. You can smell a rotten plot no matter what culture you belong to.
And seriously. How many times can Broken Sword die? Oh my yes. I SO care about this character considering this is the fourth or fifth time he has "died." Trust me, that's hardly even a spoiler.
Bottom line: Once again, as with almost EVERYTHING I almost like... great starting concept, poor execution. But to Hero's credit, it does have some impressive fight scenes.
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Kill Bill was better, even if it did have much less action.
On the upside, new previews for Shaun of the Dead (Yay! We get it in Merka land!) and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. Don't let the lame name fool you. The artistic value of this film shall make it a cult classic. I guarantee.
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I just saw that as well. During the first half hour, I was like, "Hey, this is pretty clever, I like it..." but then it just dragged. And dragged. AND DRAGGED. Jesus.
****SPOILERS****
I thought it was so pointless how they used like 50 billion arrows to kill the main guy at the end. Honestly, I can just imagine the janitor having to go through and pick all of those out of the doors. Such a horrible job.