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I saw
Quentin Tarantino presents
Jet Li in
Yimou Zhang's "Hero" (aka
Ying xiong)
(trailer).
The director is one of the fantastic folks coming out of Beijing,
and you couldn't ask for a better cast. Alas, the film
didn't work for me nearly as well as the other recent art-fu hit,
Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I prefer Zhang's other excellent films
(Raise
the Red Lantern,
Ju
Dou,
To
Live).
 The story is tiresome too; the Rashomon thing is only clever when the different views of the story reveal something about the character telling them. And the conclusion, with the Noble Hero sacrificing himself for the good of The State, is too creepy for me. Still, it's a good movie, worth your time to see. |
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