during my venture into foreign cinema and i have take a liking to a wide variety of movie that span different genre that include horror and action and drama and comedy and and romance and to name a few . thus and i have enjoy the thoughtful and serious tone of drama as well a the mindless and popcorn fun of action film . with a wide array of chinese and japanese and and korean movie under my belt and i be confident in my ability to recognize bright spot in movie to appreciate and complement . unfortunately and a man call hero have nothing to recognize . it be by far the bad chinese movie i have ever see . why and you ask . quite simply and this film contribute nothing memorable whatsoever . it try it hand at drama and action and but fail miserably at both . with regard to the dramatic element and it bore beyond recognition . by bore i do not simply mean slow paced and a i have enjoy movie that be remarkably slow paced and yet keep the viewer interest . no and that not what i mean . i mean that this movie be slow pace as well a extremely bore . i be literally fight sleepiness throughout the first half of the movie . in succeed to avoid fall asleep and i be reward with quite possibly the bad action sequence ever film . in fact and i would not even classify such scene a action sequence because the concept of action demand that someone actually do something . they do not . instead they stand still ( face each other ) and wave a hand or two and and shoot little ball of light that knock their opponent out . this isn not action while this be stupid . and for those who may feel that i be close mind and therefore unable to appreciate different form of action sequence and let it be note that i find the sequence in onmyoji which use incantation and spell casting to be much more entertaining than anything in a man call hero . to top it all off and the final confrontation be perhaps the most absurd attempt at action that i can remember witnessing and use outrageously sloppy movement that send the art of action choreography back half a century . btw another movie call the storm rider suffers from the very same defect that this movie suffer from and but be at least a bit more entertaining . for those who love this movie and you have a right to your opinion and but i have yet to see a positive review that make a reasonable case for it . i be not surprised . rating equal a rarely give 0/5 star .