After the awkwardness of The Sword and the Sorcerer, it felt good to watch one of my favourite fantasy movies, namely Hero. (Granted, it’s more of a historically based wu xia movie, really, but seeing as its pretty much based on a myth and not on what the historian in me would call history, and wu xia is in no way realistic (not that fantsy can’t be realistic; “realism” is such an ambiguous term, it should rarely be taken at face value), so I feel justified in refering to this as fantasy. Also, it’s a great movie, and there are way too few great fantasy movies, so if I categorise Hero as fantasy, it’s one more for the good guys. :P )

Anyhoo, I just spent about half an hour digging up my last review of Hero in order to direct you there for a plot synopsis, and it turned out I agree with every single word I wrote one and an half year ago — which was nice, as I remebered the Hero review as one of my best ones to date — and that I could just repost the rating — 9.0/10 — as well as a link.

Yay.