An ugly American movie.

Rating: Null/10 (10 February 2004)

The movie has a lot of problems regarding different areas of cinema; dialog quality, development of the theme, role performances etc. (it's a very bad movie in fact), but I don't need to mention about them here.
Above all, this movie is a disrespect to Japanese culture and Japanese people:
1) Meici is shown in the movie as a puppet without no will which is an outrageous lie. As we all know, he was a brilliant and determined leader. The movie is also full of problems in historical aspect. 2) Even in respecting the Japanese soul and the Samurai, there is an air of scorning in the movie. 3) The name and the theme of the movie is the Samurai but in fact the movie gives a false understanding of the concept of Samurai. (In my opinion, Sanjuro in Yojimbo or Hanzo Hattori in Kill Bill were really good descriptions.)