praise for a good film

Rating: 10/10 (8 May 2004)

About time there was a return to the great traditional values of film making of yesteryear in such movies like Dances with Wolves, Little Big Man, the Searchers, the Mission, Laurence of Arabia, where cultures collide, so is The Last Samurai a great movie. A brilliant production that sets the world of movies back on track while most action films and rom-coms make a void, this film fills it. Well made, excellent photography, a brilliant cast, good music, a huge historical story for Japan and the context of rebellion and the state, a great individual story for Tom Cruises character in gaining a sense of worth, a director on the top of his form in Ed Zwick, a action filled idea filled movie: thoroughly entertaining.