masterclass movie,well told story.

Rating: 10/10 (30 May 2005)

my love for tom cruise as an actor grows stronger all the time. his part in an epic tale told about the samurai's was brilliantly and also sadly portrayed.i was a kid when i first heard the word samurai, i thought of them as monsters, to be killed as i thought they themselves were killers how wrong was i.history once again has incorrectly written lies about the samaurai, why else would i think of them as the enemies of the people.The last samurai made me sad because in this day of age i would love to be one of them.dying for honour and living with the idea that there is purpose in everything we do.they lived for one purpose to serve the Emperor,and to die for their beliefs,religions now are all to confusing ,but there's so........simple. i cried for the end of those brave warriors and my complextion,took a whole new turn.being killed when told your idea's are no longer needed.I began to wonder who the real villains were!who are the bad guy's?The emperor for not saving the samurai's,the samurai's themselves, the Japanese government for not using more diplomatic discussions in order to save the samurai's or the American soldier who killed Indian children, then later felt remorse, then for some strange reason i began to love and respect.The last samurai is a well told story, you can make up your own minds who the good guys and the bad guys are.I'm 38 and feel cheated that i've spent 25 years or so thinking the Indians and the Samurai's are evil beings when all the time it's the very people who provide the blanket of peace that i live by ,who are perhaps in a realistic way the true baddies. this film and others like it open my eye's and I'm so tired of not knowing what's true and what's not. tom cruise done excellent work and my respect to the other suppporting cast,once again my eye's have seen the true light.to the samurai's i salute them ,i have never seen a braver and respected race of warriors.i guess in writing this i now know why i cried .to forget the teaching of my young life and arm myself with the sense that history as i knew it.made sense to the gullible.i only just watched the last samurai i will sit down again and watch it.well done guys.