A Man Called Hero
(1999)
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Reviewed by:
SOJay on 2001-07-02
Summary:
Not so great, but not that bad either......
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It would appear that a lot of people felt very little for this film and even though I tend to agree with most of the negative criticism, I do feel that some bright spots have been greatly over-looked.
Ekin Cheng's performance was far from spectacular, but he's beginning to show some growth in his acting skill. Compare his acting in this film to the work he did in Storm Riders and you're bound to see what I mean.
The use of flashbacks to tell the story did lend a certain degree of confusion to the narrative structure, but something interesting to me came out of this narrative device. I felt that as the story was handed from one person to another the tale became taller and ultimately a legend was formed and like any legend it needs to be taken with a grain of salt.
This film is obviously going to be compared to Storm Riders and believe or not I actually liked it better. For a change the story was a little engaging and characters were given some emotion. The real crime was a lack of direction and a script that never bothered to tie up any of its loose ends.
-Jay Grinder
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