All too familiar, contains ONE spoiler!

Rating: 5/10 (9 January 2004)

The last samurai tries to be an epic of the likes of Braveheart, Gladiator or Dances with wolves, the set up being this time in Japan. Although the movie contains some beautiful sceneries and well directed battle scenes, the biggest problem I had with this movie was that I had "seen it all before". One man rising to fight for his values... to be frank I enjoyed Braveheart or the Gladiator much more than this one. Not to mention that I find it a bit hard to believe that, in the last battles scene, when everybody in the Katsumoto camp gets gunned down, that Tom Cruise manages to escape alive.