A typical fun comedy from the early 90's. Good fun!
Andy Garcia, Chevy Chase, Dustin Hoffman
A plane crashes. A mystery man emerges from the wreckage and saves passengers left and right. Who is he? That's what TV reporter Gale Gayley (Geena Davis) wants to find out, especially since he rescue...( read more
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DVD Release Date: May 25, 1999
Stats: 345 reviews
Flixster Reviews (345)
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November 2, 2007
An insignificant man becomes a hero, but then another man takes all the credit. This is a very interesting movie.
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August 1, 2007
Hero is pure Hollywood, and is the very best of what Hollywood means, or meant at the time. The plot is clever, the writing is witty, the characters are interesting, and the acting is decent (Dustin Hoffman is great). The development is not meant to expose new subtleties of human...( read more)
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November 25, 2009
It is not as serious as P.Weir's Fearless, 1993. I admit that S. Frears is very good film director.
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October 29, 2009
Dustin Hoffman as a brilliant, complex and witty chracter who saves a plane load of people begrungently; he's not a nice guy and a crook and before anyone knows that he is the hero Andy Garcia come along and steals his limelight. Garcia leads the whole country on and especillay a...( read more)
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October 26, 2009
Its an ok movie, pretty enjoyable!
Its funny but not what you call laugh out loud funny!
I like this movie as it is quite amusing and its a great cast and the storyline is ok but its just a bit predictable and can get annoying in places as its that sort of typical movie where ...( read more) -
October 26, 2009
This isn;t a bad film, quite a good script with humourous one liners from Dustin Hoffman, great cast but nothing special and rather forgettable.
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August 29, 2009
has its good moments but sadly watching back now it has that old cliche ridden late eighties feel that doesnt bring back a sense of nostalgia more relief than movies have developed where modern premises such as this can be tackled with richer context than run of the mill rudiment...( read more)
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