Pro Jury The other reviews offer a complete enough picture about what this movie offers and fails to offer. However, potential viewers might want to be aware that at least in one version of this release, there are tiny, difficult to see, English subtitles. You may want to think twice about trying to watch the subtitled version with a group of people because many people will be asking what is being said throughout the film.Also of note, the famed Asian picture book model Hsu Chi plays Mu. Moving or still, she possesses the same unique magnetism.

Lester Mak (leekandham) After watching The Storm Riders, I was expecting the same delights from A Man Called Hero. However, I was to be sorely disappointed as this film just looks like a rush job to capitalise on the back of The Storm Riders' success.A Man Called Hero is made by basically the same team as that behind The Storm Riders, with many of the original cast making a return (with the noteable exception of Aaron Kwok). The style of the original story, however, is really very different from Storm Riders, but the back room team failed to acknowledge this and tried to copy exactly what they did in the earlier film and in a hurried manner.What we've ended up with is a film that lacks any continuity and pace. The bulk of the film is slow and arduous to watch as you're dying to get it moving. There are gaps in the story, leaving questions in your head that are never answered. I won't spoil it for those who haven't seen Hero, there is the "But what happened to...?" question at the end of the film.Where there is comfortable pace in the film, that turned out to be in the action sequences, but these itself was very lacklustre. The scenes were way too short to give any significant enjoyment, and relied too heavily on the special effects capability of the film, which in itself didn't excel itself as well as The Storm Riders. One example is the rendering of the Statue of Liberty compared to the Giant Buddha in the earlier film. The Giant Buddha had amazing attention to detail, making it look very realistic, whereas Liberty looks very artificial. And in Hero, all the action scenes rely on the SFX, as opposed to the SFX adding to the scene.In Hollywood animation studios, it usually takes many years of painstaking work to render and animate a film. I somehow feel that the production companies involved here felt more concerned about bringing in revenues quickly than to really pay attention to detail, which I feel is a big shame. But having said that, that is something that can be rectified, and a future film that features the real achievements of The Storm Riders and A Man Called Hero

hingcheung 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.

modius Inspired by a comic book, this sequel (of sorts) to "The StormRiders" is a plot driven, emotionally charged (well for the characters of the film but not the viewers) movie that see Hero going to America and being tracked down by a Japanese warrior wanting the "China Secret".The SFX are deliberatly saved for last, with wonderful effect, unfortuently due to the character driven plot moving at a snails pace, it ruins the film.Fortuently, a welcomed return of Yuen Biao saves the film mid-way with some good wire-enhanced fight sequencesWhilst the end fight may make you think your watching "pokemon" or something when Hero shouts out "China Secret!!" it is an enjoyable film, much like Storm Riders, but probably not as good - mainly because its boring most of the time, spending more time on sfx, and plot-driven story.If you like your action fast, and your sfx less intrusive, you may find this film out of your liking, sometimes the SFX actually gets in the way, you can't see the people fighting or connecting with hands or feet.The ending is much better than that of X-Men, and although I'm nickpicking at the movie, its a good movie, that is perhaps a bit too long on plot and too little on action.Overall: 5/10