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| ACTORS: | Jet Li, Anita Mui, Miu Tse |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Corey Yuen |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1995 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Tai Seng Video |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Foreign Film - Chinese |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 601643408040 |
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Customer Reviews of My Father is a Hero
Worth Watching but not worth buying I saw this movie as "My Father is a Hero" and I loved it the first time. The interaction between Jet Li and the kid (also in New Legend of Shaolin) is one of the cornerstones of the appeal. Swinging the kid around so he can bash people in the heads is cool. Both Jet Li and the kid (I know he's got a real name, but I forgot it) are amazingly talented martial artists and they have a style unsurpassed by other Hong Kong actors.
Unfortunately I saw this movie a second time and all the scenes that I was overlooking while waiting for the action, I just couldn't overlook them. There is the mother who spends half the movie dying (but you don't care), Anita Mui's lackluster performance and a lot of irritating garbage to get through before you get to the final fight scene. There's also that Hong Kong sleek vs. China Dowdy dichotomy that obsessed Hong Kong filmmakers in the decade before unification.
So I can recommend wathcing this movie once, but if you watch it a second time, you'll be disappointed. Not many Hong Kong movies hold up on a second viewing but there are Jet Li ones that do including Fist of Legend, Swordsman II and The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk.
Easy to forget
Another Miramax chopped up version of a Hong Kong film. The story is half decent, and the action exceptable, but this movie is not hard to forget.
Dimension destroy another mediocre release
This is a terrible release of a terrible movie!
For those fans who have watched Jet's movie career go from the sensational Shaolin Temple and Once Upon a Time in China series, it was this movie (along with the Defender) that marked the beginning in Jet's dramatic decline.
This movie is actually called My Father is a Hero, it has been dubbed and cut for American audiences. It is no wonder that many martial arts films are considered plotless and characterless when the US distributors cut them so only action is left!!
The martial arts action is way below par, the kid is more annoying than Macauley Kulkin, and the bad guy's include Ngai Sing, Ken Lo and Yu Rong Guang! These are some great martial artists and the encounter with Jet should have been breath-taking, but there are too many wires and it's a limp finale overall.
buy the asian import of My Father is a Hero, rather than support these butchered US releases. Or even better buy Jet's classic movies (most things pre-1994) + and the Hong kong edition of Fist of Legend