Why could Tom not catch the bullet?

Rating: Null/10 (4 January 2006)

I am sorry that I do not share the enthusiasm for this film as others have done; perhaps it is because I have seen this film one too many times flying between destinations as an in-flight "entertainment". Maybe the lack of oxygen, or the fact that I find Mr Cruise's magical Star Power means that he can be shot with the 19th century equivalent of a mini-gun, and walk away without a scratch, it just cries out for some-one to give him the Coup De Grace and spare us this dubious film. It was the cult of Bushido in the Japanese Imperial Army that led to the Rape of Nanking, the death marches of Bataan, and the treatment of allied prisoners of war on the Burma railway. I cannot put their memory aside for this film, and Mr Cruise.