Perfect mixing of cultures

Rating: 9/10 (19 June 2004)

Great movie! Tom Cruise brings depth to his role. Great directing by Zwick and a great screenplay by John Logan. Very interesting in showing ways of Japanese people and way of the Samurai. Ken Watanbe gives a strong performance of portraying the Samurai leader. Good score as always by Hans Zimmer. Good cinematography,editing, sound, art direction and costume design. As I said, the movie shows a perfect example of an American soldier( Cruise) mixing with the Japanese culture. Spoilers!!!- Cruise plays a post Civil War soldier called on to lead a Japanese squad to defeat the Samurai. As the movie goes on, Cruise gets involved with the Samurai and learns their way and finds out they're not ''savages'' like Tony Goldwyn's character says. Also the film has many impressive fight sequences.