Too much Tom Cruise

Rating: 6/10 (29 January 2004)

I wanted this one to be good, but it was what I thought it might be. a good idea for a movie but why must they make everything so "entertaining"? By entertaining I mean, that every movie is made the same way all other big Hollywood films. They are always making a box-office-hit not a good movie. The movie would have been much better without Tom Cruise stealing the show. He is not that good actor (not very bad either, but this time I had too much of him). It`s true that this is very much like dances with wolves, but there is one big difference. In D.W.W. the film is about indians and the wrong picture white folks had about them. in Last Samurai the focus is on Cruises character. Lot of good things in the movie too: Great fighting scenes, Great music, some Great acting performances, Great japanese scenery... I wanted this to bee a great Samurai movie with Tom Cruise in it, but I got A pretty good adventure film located in Japan starring Tom Cruise. I give it 7/10