Nominated for 1 Oscar. 46 wins & 48 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
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As a technical achievement, Hero finds Zhang at the height of his powers, effortlessly expanding into complex genre filmmaking without losing his command. But in light of his earlier work, the film continues a sharp decline in urgency.
– Scott Tobias,
AV Club,
5 Aug 2013
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The result is both thrilling and thoughtful, offering imaginative action sequences as it considers questions of loyalty and the individual's role in history.
– Hank Sartin,
Chicago Reader,
5 Aug 2013
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The austerity of Hero makes you realize how cluttered other action movies are.
– David Edelstein,
Slate,
5 Aug 2013
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The result is not so much a historical epic as a kind of highly determined ballet: dreamy with bloodless violence, relying less on shades of character than on magnificence of gesture.
– Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
5 Aug 2013
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As they move through the martial-arts sequences, the performers leave the impression that the laws of gravity are subject to amendment. The rules of love and war -- all's fair -- are, Hero makes clear, immutable.