Hero: Review - Positive Major Spoilers  (Ain'tItCoolNews)

I was lucky enough to catch the first North American public screening of Zhang Yimou's Hero this evening at the Palm Springs Film Festival. It's hard for me to put into words just how amazing this film is.

To keep it simple--the story takes place over 2000 years ago where Jet Li is Nameless, an assassin who has crafted a way to kill the King of Qin by faking the deaths of some of the king's greatest enemies. Only the King is on to Nameless' scheme and this confrontation is the centerpiece for a Rashamon-like story focusing on the people Nameless claimed to have killed or (mainly Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Donnie Yen and Zhang Ziyi as a student of Leung's). From here on we see different versions of similar events, each version told in it's own color--so we see many of the same scenes, sets and costumes numerous times, each in a different color.

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