The Lost Samurai

Rating: Null/10 (8 August 2004)

If you have seen Dances with Wolves, you will be sorely disappointed with this movie. To add to my disappointment, it took me three quarters of the movie to realize that it was 2x as good viewed at 2x speed. Such viewing was aided by the Japanese subtitles, but what made 2x really work was that the movie probably had one of the most unoriginal scripts. It didn't help the movie at all by the fact that there wasn't a single character you really cared about or believed. The movie will not score any humor points with anyone, which was to be expected, but Samurai really didn't even get one chuckle out of me. I wouldn't recommend this movie to anyone who enjoys good movies.