Tom Cruise in Japan

Rating: 5/10 (13 February 2006)

nice cinematography, beautiful scenery. this movie had great potential, but it was cut short by Hollywood rescue scenes, terrible casting and a silly story. it doesn't happen often when i watch movies, but during the last samurai, my suspension of disbelief died like a starving child.
*spoilers*
when would a widow fall in love with the murderer of her husband? where did the samurai code of honor and harakiri go at the end? i know tom cruise was a great warrior, but to become one of the best samurai in a span of a year or so? and what about the last battle? how could tom cruise not have been hit when everyone else was killed? the writers sort of kind of made excuses for these things, but they seemed so forced as to create a Hollywood fairy tale ending and Hollywood love story.
*end spoilers*
i think this movie would have been better without tom cruise. like i said earlier, it had so much potential.