A Man Called Hero (1999)

Well first off let me say that I bought this movie because ekin cheng was in it.This is not his best.Good story, good acting,better the average special effects for a Chinese movie,they are getting better every year.It lacked good fighting sequences to much talk and gloom not enough action,still worth the 4 bucks I paid for it.

i've heard of this movie, but i've never really paid attention to its review, for those who enjoyed this movie...by golly, i don't know how you guys manage to but we all have our differences.this movie as most other recent HK martial arts movies (with young unexperienced actors when it comes to chinese kung fu movies) is too dependent on CGI, what's the point in watching a movie filled with CGI's??? (Computer Graphic Images), the actors gets to do nothing, the viewers is watching a bunch of incompetent scenes. they should just make the whole movie in animation, there's nothing great nor close to decent in these kind of movies (talking about Legend of Zu, Legend of Tekken, all bunch of crappy CGI movies).now if it was wire fighting, it would've been better (like yuen woo pings movies). enough of how bad the movie is, let's move on to the plot of the movieso Hero's parents are murdered and he decides to move to America, his wife becomes pregnant on the night before he moves and the wife and her brother decides to look up Hero to tell him the good news, on the day that she concieves her twins, one (the daughter) is taken away by a corrupted chinese guy co operating with the japanese ninjas that are looking for a duel with Hero and his master Pride. his wife passes away, and Hero is told to be "born under the star of death" which basically means all his dearest will meet a tragic end, which the movie has successfully implied. so he decides to stay away from all his dearests and live a lonley life. the movie either intentionally leaves some of the things incomplete for whatever reasons or it simply forgot to explain what happened to Hero's daughter. this movie reminds me of a chinese fantasy movie because of ShadowShadow depicts the same character in that fantasy movie as he is armless and carries an identical mask to cover his face and his fighting style is based on footwork and his ponytail. anyhow all in all this movie is really bad, if you absolutely find NOTHING to watch or do then fine go ahead and give this one a shot, but beware of it's absolute ridicule plot and directing.0/10, i'd rate it even lower if it had negative.

`A man called Hero' is another fantastic epic of good against evil, which was transformed from comic book form onto celluloid. As `The Stormriders', this film mixes good special effects, awesome martial arts scenes and a nice story together to an above average movie. For most western viewers this film might just be a touch to eastern, but of course it's a HK movie, and also it's an eastern comic book adaptation. The acting is pretty solid, and the story, it's a tragic one to that, evolves rather slow, giving enough space to develop the characters of this epic. So don't expect another fighting scene every 5 minutes, like in many Jet Li movies, but rather some fine fighting scenes towards the end and climax of the movie. The final fight is quite spectacular as Hero finally meets his long life adversary Invincible and they both have a stunning fight ON TOP of the Statue of Liberty. If you liked `The Stormriders' and `The Duel', you'll definitely like `A man called Hero'.

As a fan of "Chinese Hero", it is very disappointing to see this movie. These are the reasons: 1.Acting is very very bad.2.Story doesn't have anything to do with the original comic. Except the characters are in this movie.3.Special effects are very very bad, except the scene with the swordfighting with water.4.Story is very very boring...5.It's directed very very crappy, totally not interesting. Bad usage of flashbacks.6.Fighting scenes are too short7.characters lack any depth. No personality...nothing...just saying their lines.8.It was DUBBED!!! $^&%#@&(#@&^@#%^* Even though stormriders was a bad movie, at least it was entertaining.It's a shame they released this movie. The TV-series by ATV were much better.