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Master filmmaker Quentin Tarantino presents HERO -- starring martial arts legend Jet Li. This standout Special Edition, remastered and including an exciting new bonus feature, is a visually stunning epic where a fearless warrior rises up to defy an empire and unite a nation. With supernatural skill -- and no fear -- a nameless soldier (Jet Li) embarks on a mission of revenge against the fearsome army that massacred his people. Now, to achieve the justice he seeks, he must take on the empire's most ruthless assassins and reach the enemy he has sworn to defeat. Acclaimed by critics and honored with numerous awards, HERO was an Oscar(R) (Best Foreign Language Film, 2002) and Golden Globe nominee

Based on a true story this martial arts adventure takes place behind the Hong Kong walls for the secret competition that settles the World Championship of the sport. While trying to be knocked down inside the ring government agents try to track the master down outside the ring.

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With THE MATRIX the Wachowskis have established themselves as innovative filmmakers who push the boundaries of live-action films. Like the groundbreaking STAR WARS THE MATRIX also the first film of a trilogy showcases a unique visual style one the Wachowskis achieved through an array of techniques and digital effects some never before seen in mainstream Hollywood films. Although computer morphing technology had been used before in films such as THE ABYSS and TERMINATOR 2 the Wachowskis were the first to use "bullet time" a time-bending digital effect that utilizes both computer-generated imagery and still photography. The film itself is a complex story that aspires to mythology focusing on a computer hacker named Neo Keanu Reeves who searches for the truth behind the mysterious force known as the Matrix. He finds his answer with a group of strangers led by the charismatic Morpheus Laurence Fishburne. What they encounter in confronting that truth makes for a lightning-paced eye-popping thrill ride of a movie.

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Bruce Lee was immortalized in his films as a martial arts master and first-class entertainer. ENTER THE DRAGON was the first martial arts film that American audiences had witnessed and was actually produced in both Hong Kong and Hollywood. Interestingly ENTER THE DRAGON also set the stage for non-traditional culturally specific narratives to make their way into Hollywood. Bruce Lee plays a kung fu master recruited by a foreign government to infiltrate the island of a megalomaniac martial artist named Han. Han's bodyguard is also found to have killed Lee's sister giving Lee a personal vendetta to fight for. The Hall of Mirrors sequence towards the end of the film is now famous as are Lee's incredibly gymnastic martial arts abilities. This trend-setting film holds up as an entertaining engaging action movie more than 30 years later.