Hero

In the movie review, Kenneth Turan claims that Hero is "the most artistically sophisticated, most formally beautiful martial arts film the genre has seen." The film is based on Chinese history involving the king of Qin, the third century BC ruler who united other six kingdoms and became the emperore of China. Turan writes that the color schemes in the movie was very impressive. The movie review qoutes, " Great emphasis is laid on intertwined cultural and moral issues: the parallels between martial arts and music, the way fighting skill can be rooted in calligraphy, even the possibility of pacifism within a martial world."