Tom Cruise invades Japan to make a bad movie

Rating: 1/10 (14 August 2004)

They tried too hard to make an epic with this one. I really feel sorry for the rest of the cast who got stuck with Tom Cruise for this one. Actually I don't, the whole cast played this "greater than thou" role aside from Ken Watanabe and the really angry guy. He was my favorite, that angry saved it for me.
Here it goes, some drunk military man trains Japans army with guns to fight the samurai. The army loses and Cruise is captured, then he learns to become Samurai.
It tried too hard to make us believe that this movie actually had a purpose.
Its a two and a half hour journey of self discovery for Tom Cruise that is hardly enjoyable. The last hour is too over the top and corny for a major motion picture, this would have been a better B-movie because they would have gored it up and added one liners.
What would have made this movie better is Bruce Campbell, if Bruce Campbell were the lead in this, the war would have been over in 20 minutes, then there would have been more than an hour leftover for alcohol and debauchery, with one liners. A fact proven by his work in Army of Darkness.