opinion

Rating: Null/10 (9 June 2008)

This was the first Kurosawa film I ever watched, and i was very impressed. The film was action packed and contained many elements of film-making that I see nowadays. It also made many war movies made nowadays pale in comparison. The battle scenes are very exciting, long and filled with flames. The plot, based on a Shakespeare play was a little complex in the way that power seemed to bounce around and it was pretty hard to tell which way it's going to go. By the end of the movie I was a little overwhelmed by the whole thing, but of course, that's the sign of a good tragedy. And in the end the irony was almost comical.