Left the theater before the movie was over!

Rating: 1/10 (13 July 2004)

This movie was not enjoyable for me at all. I am tired of Americans making anti-American movies regarding our country's history. It was and is just that....history. That means it is over with and there is no changing it. Sure, we can learn from it, and I think we have and continue to do so. The historical figure we slam in this movie is General George Custer. How ironic that the movie opens on his birthday, December 5th.
Tom Cruise's character is so ashamed of American violence that he leaves his country to join in Japan's violence. Wow! And to top it off, he becomes the greatest Samurai ever!!!!! How arrogant is that for American movie making? A drunken American apparently doesn't need the benefit of ancestral pride and generations of training as the Japanese do. What an insult to Japanese culture and pride.
I wouldn't (and haven't) recommended this movie to anyone.