The New York Times > Movies > Cracking the Color Code of ‘Hero’ – apparently Hero only opens in NY on August 27th. It was released here not long after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I bought the DVD here cheap, but (having lost the remote), watched the whole thing without subtitles. So all I can say is “pretty” and “WTF?”.
The funny thing was that just after watching it, I saw that In the Mood for Love was showing on a cable movie channel, and both movies, the Wuxia epic and the romantic art film, have the same two actors, Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung as romantic leads. Boy, do they get around.