Zhang Yimou's film Hero is a ravishing beauty, an elegant, sinewy creature blessed with such art and grace that the visual poetry of the piece literally leaves you breathless.
While it has been compared to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Chinese-American filmmaker Ang Lee's masterpiece, Hero is a different animal altogether. The films share sexy starlet Zhang Ziyi, both saturate the screen with vibrant, almost surreal colours, and both trade on the film equivalent of the ancient wuxia literary tradition (the martial arts warriors depicted possess extraordinary powers, such as the ability to fly).
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