today i went to the second-run theater across the street from where i live to see the new zhang yimou film hero. i'm still not sure what i think of it. the general consensus among the people i know that have seen it here is that it is mediocre. i think it was ok, but not great. and at the beginning i was thinking it was going to think it was mediocre too, but it got better. there are scenes that are nice visually, but some of the fight scenes seem to pale if you compare them to the hey day of hk chop socky. i've heard they've changed history quite a bit for the film, and i've also heard that zhang yimou needs money and he did this movie more for money than anything else. not sure how much of that is true. some of the scenes in the film are really loud(most noticeably the arrow scenes) mainly due to the sound efffects. the soundtrack was really nice and i will probably hunt it down one of these days.