Satisfying filmmaking

Rating: 7/10 (13 December 2014)

The Last Samurai largely and greatly benefits from its emotionally powerful, exceptional, completely unexpected and knockout ending and the best ending I've ever seen in movies in memory, stunning visuals, thrilling battle scenes and high production values. I love the slick comical touch in the movie and it truly works and suits the movie. The way the characters behave and look at the world around them is interesting. The movie also has a strong feeling and sense of heroism, honor, redemption and vulnerability and I like that. Well done. Now, I would like to comment on something people tend to misunderstand. A few, some or most people say that the ending is ruined and that annoys me because I can easily suspect that these people think too quickly for what it is to them as a first place idea in their mind rather than first trying to uncover its purpose and meaning and find out whether it is a ruined ending or not. Because whether it's a movie ending that we as humans in our nature are generally used to or not, that's not what matters, instead it is the meaning and purpose which is important. The so thought ruined ending isn't there just like that, and it's likely there for a (good (and worthy)) reason. So for those of you who still think of it as a ruined ending, please do what I just said: think deeply before saying. On my side I thought that the ending was great (as I, of course, already said). My rating: 7.2/10