The Heroes is a lower budget (but not low quality) kung fu epic taking place in The Qing Dynasty. Ti Lung is the lead here and plays a Qing officer that betrayed his brothers In a raid of a Shaolin temple. What his brothers don't know is that he actually is working against the emperor, by keeping them imprisoned and putting them through rigorous training to keep up with their martial arts skills for when the time comes. Ti Lung is an excellent actor and is great at playing this honorable ( but anguished) character. This was directed by Wu Ma, who also acts in this film along with Danny Lee who would also star in a film with John Woo(The Killer). The sets look good and the fights are incredible. The Heroes is certainly a good watch and is very much the same style as Shaw Brothers studio classics, with lots of those actors working on this.
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