Stars: Ekin Cheng, Qi Shu, Kristy Yang, Nicholas Tse

Director: Wai Keung Lau

Summary: Story about a man called Hero and the revenge he exacts, when his family are murdered. Plenty of fighting action as Hero is a martial arts master.

A master of martial arts flees to the United States after his family is massacred. He brings with him the Red Sword, a sword of legend, and prepares to make his revenge. Features an amazing fight scene atop the Statue of Liberty and dazzling special effects.

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An example of Hong Kong action cinema at its most mainstream, A Man Called Heroowes perhaps more to the films of Steven Segal than it does those of John Woo. The tale of a mythical hero who borders on the status of superhero, the film is stripped of any potential credibility by some of the most appalling dubbing ever seen at the cinema. While the original Chinese cast may inject the movie with passion, their American voice-over replacements obviously never made it past the sincere section of acting class. Each line is delivered with such false earnestness that the film sounds like a cross between Days of Our Livesand an episode of Pokémon. No cinematic cliché is left untouched, suggesting that this is not just a case of something lost in the translation but just a bad film... in anybody's language. The world-wide success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragonhas proved that there is a huge market for original Eastern cinema, even more reason to avoid the pointless rehashing of the worst of Hollywood that A Man Called Heroundoubtedly is. --Phil Udell

Aspect Ratio:	Full Screen, Wide Screen
Main Language:	Cantonese
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Biographies and Filmographies of Cast and Filmmaker, Interactive Moving Menus, Music Video, Making Of Featurette, Production Stills Gallery, Scene Selection, Theatrical Trailers
Subtitles:	English
Year:	1999
Release Date:	May 21, 2001
Runtime:	109 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D V 1036
Keywords:	Man, Action, Hero, General, Called, Adventure
Genre:	Action/Adventure