Screw the Reviews and look at it for what it is!

Rating: Null/10 (11 December 2003)

After finalllly watching this movie thru a sneak peek and going thru so much just to watch it, I have one word for this movie: AMAZING.
Just minutes after the movie started, I became absorbed with Tom Cruise's character and his disgruntled past. Soon thereafter, the movie changes its settings to Japan and that's when a heart of the movie comes in: the Japanese culture integrated throughout the whole movie. Then , more stuff happens, Cruise becomes part of the samurai and sees how different and unique their lifestyel is compared to the western world, etc.

Although these theatrical elements may seem boring at first, The Last Samurai contains much more than just that. First, the battle scenes are amazing and on par with those in Braveheart. Second, there is comic relief throughout the movie that keeps you on a emotial rollarcoster. Maybe those people who gave negative reviews dont like feeling that way, because they want to be the one's "in control" of how they feel. Whatevers, those fools :P Lastly, if you are human, you will feel very emotional at certain scenes in the movie. As I watching it, I could feel myself tear up as well as mannny sniffles in the audience. Maybe I just got too into the movie, but there must be a reason why I did so.
Basically, my advice for you is to walk into the theatre not expecting some boring, drawn out melodrama with fighting, but to watch it as a movie that wishes to entertain and make you CARE about it.
LETS ALL BE SAMRUAI!