the worst samurai-movie ever made

Rating: 1/10 (12 April 2005)

In this visual spectacle, Tom Cruise has again one of his many bad appearances. Tom Cruise said this movie was an ode to the Japanese Samurai culture. This movie looks more like a parody on the old Japanese culture. It is just one of the many American superhero movies, with a plot as predictable as a sesame-street-episode. The only thing that kept me from running away were the visuals and the costumes. The story is simple and straight. American veteran Tom Cruise is asked by the new Japanese government to fight the remain samurai in Japan. Then those same samurais kidnapped him, and instead of killing him, they keep him alive. Bit by bit he gets their confidence and learns how to use a samurai-sword and the life-style of a true samurai. Of course, he becomes a samurai, and at the end he fights with the samurai against the Japanese government. The final confrontation between the samurai and the Japanese army is by far the worst fight mankind has ever seen on cinema. The drama was totally overdone, Tom Cruise's overacting was as bad as (or worse) an average soap-actor. If people are interested in samurai-movies or the Japanese (old) culture, please watch Kurosawa instead of this Tom Cruise crap.