ebonlock | Hero

shadowchaser44 just sent me the Ain't It Cool News review of "Hero" and all I can add is, amen!

This is easily Jet Li’s very best film. The fights are of the fanciful kind, often foregoing intensity for epic sweep. The water top fight, the leaves, the rain, the arrows… All these scenes are great on DVD, on the big screen… they’re literally some of the most amazing things you’ll have ever seen. Beauty so intense as to actually shake one in their seat. Doyle’s photography is beyond masterful here… It burns colors into memory, past pure visuals to the emotional level. Where you begin to long for the scents of Green… Yellow… Red…. Blue… I can not possibly express in words how strongly these palates affected me.

Those visuals paired with Dun Tan’s fantastic score… Absolute heaven. I’ve seen this film numerous times… however, after watching it on the big screen in a theater with great digital sound… I feel I can honestly say, I’ve now only seen it once. I will see it many more times. The junk of Hollywood is being disposed of right now… Very bad movies. See this.

Yeah, ok, I must see this in the theater now, no doubt about it. Though I may also have to go home and watch a few scenes again tonight as well :)