A truly powerful film in my opinion, as I learned a lot about The Samurai, Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe are phenomenal here!!

Rating: 10/10 (1 May 2006)

This is a truly powerful film in my opinion, as I learned a lot about The Samurai, Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe are phenomenal here!!. All the characters are fantastic, and the story is extremely engrossing and quite gripping, plus Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe are simply incredible in this!. It's extremely well made and written, and It also has so many incredibly exciting battle sequences as well,plus I also loved the setting too. It gets extremely violent near the end, and I thought Cruise had some incredibly powerful and moving scenes with Watanabe, plus he had excellent chemistry with him too. I was really impressed with Cruise's fighting skills, and his passion for The Samurai that he obviously had, and The ending was so emotional that it almost had me bursting into tears, plus even at 150 minutes it was never over long for me. To be honest I didn't think this would be my type of film as I only rented because I'm a huge fan of Cruise, boy was I wrong and This should be in the top 250 in my opinion, plus a lot of this was Watanabe's show!.
All the characters are extremely likable for the most part, and you are able to care and root for Cruise's and Watanabe because They're so likable, and passionate about the same thing, plus Masato Harada is brilliant as the evil Omura, I absolutely hated him, and sure you will too. This was Ken Watanabe's 1st role in an American film, and I'm absolutely positive, he could think of nothing better with the work he did in this masterpiece, and the sword fighting was extremely well choreographed, plus I would put this performance of Cruise's up there with one of his best!. Cruise and Watanabe are the main reason why this movie is so incredibly good in my opinion,and everyone was perfectly casted as well, plus the cinematography was absolutely beautiful!. This truly a powerful film in my opinion, as I learned a lot about The Samurai, Tom Cruise and Ken Watanabe are phenomenal here, and if you Haven't seen this,please do so immediately, you shouldn't regret it even if you are not really interested about learning about The Samurai.
The Direction is fabulous!. Edward Zwick does a fabulous! job here with amazing camera work, fantastic angles, using a beautiful setting, and lots of other cool shots as well, plus he kept the film at an extremely engrossing pace.
The Acting is stunning!. Tom Cruise is amazing as always and is incredible here, He really shocked me with his passion about The Samurai, and also proved his incredible versatility, his sword&fighting skills, were also very impressive, and some of his scenes with Watanabe are some of the most powerful I have ever seen, he can add another top notch performance to his resume with this one, he was truly incredible! (Cruise Rules!!!!!!!!!!). Ken Watanabe is incredible here, he gives us a performance that we will never ever forget, he was just so powerful and had an amazing presence, he was also very intense, and so passionate about his role, his performance really moved me, for a lot of the film this was his show, I can't wait to see more of this guy!. Masato Harada is brilliant as Omura, I hated him with a passion, he was so unlikable, and I hated him for what he did, and sure you will too. Tony Goldwyn and William Atherton do fine in there roles. Rest of the cast are fine.
Overall if you Haven't seen this please do so immediately you shouldn't regret it!. ***** out of 5