Product Details

• Actors: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chui Wai, Maggie Cheung, Zhang Ziyi, Donnie Yuen
• Directors: Zhang Yimou
• Format: DVD Region, NTSC, Special Extended Version, Widescreen, Subtitled
• Subtitles: English, Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese
• Region: All Regions
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Face
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000W7205O
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #277,573 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

In feudal China, the King of Qin is waging a bloody campaign to conquer the entire land. He has been made a target of three dangerous assassins: spear-wielding Sky, and the lovers Broken Sword and Flying Snow. One day word comes that he has nothing left to fear; a prefect known only as Nameless has killed all three assassins. Nameless is called to the palace and asked to recount the tale of how he accomplished this amazing feat. After he tells his story, however, the King notices some flaws in it...

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't get the red cover version!, June 16, 2010

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M. Britton "crazy about movies" (Ft. Worth, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hero (Extended Edition) DVD + Booklet Package (DVD)

Was looking forward to getting a 'newer' version of the so-called extended cut (supposedly 102 minutes) but instead got the 'old' 2002 DVD-5 version instead. Video and audio are crummy as all get out. Was hoping this brown covered version is a newer pressing and possibly dual-layered. The red cover version I got is the exact US version running 96 minutes! The cover looks to have been sloppy-made by a kid on a computer...hopefully when buying this you make sure you don't get the red cover version. Don't get ripped off like I did. Hopefully someone will leave a review of the brown cover version (with booklet) and let us know if it's a good transfer or not. Cheers!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fake version, July 11, 2011

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E. Huang "Elipsire" (Costa Rica) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hero (Extended Edition) DVD + Booklet Package (DVD)

I did not receive what it was described. The seller never responded and the DVD was just a cheap copy with no booklet package or anything. Do not buy it.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Surprisingly good despite the hype, December 28, 2007

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Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hero (Extended Edition) DVD + Booklet Package (DVD)

Hero genuinely impressed me, much to my surprise - I'm not a fan of the humourlessly one-note Jet Li, who has always struck me as a character from Mystery Men who didn't make the final cut (useless `super' power - the ability to wave a flagpole around very, very fast) and after all the fuss made over the tedious, overlong and undernourished Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was expecting the Western critical praise to translate into another tired and overfamiliar movie that appealed mainly to people who hadn't seen much Eastern cinema. Boy, was I wrong. A gorgeous looking epic with a real sense of scale and amazing visuals allied to a complex plot, I was kicking myself for not seeing this one on the big screen. Not everything is successful (the duel on the lake never quite works), but more than enough is to guarantee repeat viewings. Li's limitations are used well for once and while Ziyi Zhang's petulant acting still doesn't entirely convince me, it's surprising to find the weakest performance coming from the film's best actor, Tony Leung Chiu Wai. Never at his most convincing in fantasy swordplay movies (the introspective Ashes of Time excepted), he seems a little underpowered for such an iconic role. But these are minor quibbles with a major delight.

There is one irritating problem with the directors cut disc, however - a watermarked logo that periodically appears in the upper corner of the frame that can only be got rid of by skipping the disc back a second or two when it appears. The behind the scenes documentary isn't subtitled into English, but the feature is.