Hats off to tom cruise...

Rating: 10/10 (15 March 2009)

This movie is one of the finest movies of tom cruise.This history film is a much more fun then a mere history flick.Hats of to tom cruise for his excellent performance.It is a satisfying epic with thrilling battle scenes..What makes this film riskier than Braveheart or Gladiator, each of which did well commercially by anachronistically having its heroes fight and die for a form of modern democracy, is that Nathan Algren is battling for something that is somehow more personal and more abstract: a highly individual concept of honor. In the context of this very beautiful film, it is a struggle worth The Last Samurai is a movie that demands our surrender  to its energy, to its bold-stroke movie-making, to its acting (particularly by Cruise and Watanabe, who blend musing and graceful muscularity) and, above all, to its romantic vision of a lost world. You have to rationalize its commitment to the warrior ...