Great film... *possible spoilers*

Rating: 5/10 (6 September 2004)

*Possible Spoilers*
This film is probably the best, or at least the second best, of the big budget films to come out this year. Edward Zwick did a great job in direction (I hope he stays with the Talisman, King really needs some more good movies). The script is wonderful, reminiscent of James Clavell's wondrous opus Shogun, and perhaps was an inspiration for it. There really are no plot holes, as everything is very well thought out. But the best part of the movie is Ken Watanabe as Katsumoto, and his reasons for betraying his emperor, which really are not so heinous as we are lead to believe early in the film. All in all, very good film, not quite perfection, but in definite needs of the top 250.