felt a case of diabetes coming along

Rating: Null/10 (18 December 2003)

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to call this movie a brilliant epic is to give epics bad names. although, being an american epic, then it is alright. personally, however, i was offended by this movie. oh no, i was not offended by the usual rants of "white man saving foreigners skin" or anything like that. i was more offended by the director, the producer, the distributer and anyone else involved in this movie. the reason being: they think that the audience are idiots and therefore they have to explain everything to us in a near-insulting patronizing way, not for a moment letting us come to our own conclusions. there was symbolism in the movie, but instead of letting the audience seek out the symbolism, the director had to show it to us, continuously, without relent. i wish i could shout out "enough already" and that would have stopped it, but i, not much to the way the producers felt, do consider myself intelligent enough to notice when a movie is being trually symbolical and beautiful, and when they are fall of $#@!#$.
sure there were some great scenes, and the acting was up to standard, and the filming was good, but trying to force-feed me the sentimentality was kind of distracting me away from all of this.
and besides that, tom cruise being the last samurai literally, well that just seemed a bit over the top.
**/5