Rent 'Seven Samuari' instead

Rating: Null/10 (6 January 2004)

If you have ever seen Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film 'Seven Samurai' you've seen a much better film that this one. If you haven't seen Kurosawa's masterpiece you need to. While 'The Last Samurai' is well photographed and contains good performances. Kurosawa's film deals with simular themes and issues in a more dramatic way. The final moments of 'Seven Samurai' make the pretty much the same statement I think 'The Last Samurai' was attempting to make through-out the entire movie. I was involved and intrigued by Kurosawa's film and simply wasn't by Mr. Cruise's. During 'Seven Samurai' I cared for the characters and during 'The Last Samurai' after I figured out how each characters would end up I wasn't even interested to see how they got there.