A thoroughly enjoyable epic.

Rating: 10/10 (15 December 2003)

The Last Samurai can best be described by the word EPIC. This film follows the journey of a former frontier military hero from the United States from a 'shell shocked' alcoholic, to an honorable Samurai in Japan.
Tom Cruise gives, what can easily be described as his best performance in recent years, as Captain Nathan Algren, the protagonist of this story.
This film can easily and proudly be placed with the likes of Braveheart, Gladiator, Saving Private Ryan, and Master and Commander as an epic, with characters that you truly care about.
Go out and see this film...you will not regret it.