The Last Samurai (Widescreen Edition)

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Summary: Good enough for Kurosawa fans
Review: This movie was excellant and byfar the best I had seen all year. This movie had a great story brillant battle scenes. Akira Kurosawa would have been impressed. If you like this movie I recommend you also check out The Seven Samurai(1954) Yojimbo(1961) The Hidden Fortress(1958)

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Summary: Wow. That was the first word that came out of my mouth
Review: An American Civil War "hero" is asked to travel to Japan in order to help the Emperor fight against the rebellion of the legendary Samurai, protectors of the country for centuries. When captured by the enemy, the American is asked to stick around for "conversations" with the leader of the samurai, who in turn, teaches the Yank a thing or two about life.
The film is brilliant in that way because it allows us to connect our own tainted dreams, hopes and ambitions to Cruise's journey through the higher mindedness of the Samurai.
talk about an amazing transformation and outlook on life. I always believed that much of that Zen stuff was just plain double-talk, but this film is amazing in both its depth of character interaction and preciseness of dialogue, through which great thought and resonance is placed upon every scene, every word and every action sequence. To that end, consider how almost every person who perished in this film affected me emotionally, during even its most violent scenarios. It's also to note that if actor Ken Watanabe, playing the all-powerful Katsumoto, doesn't receive an Oscar nomination for his part in this film, consider me to be the uncle of a monkey. And did I mention the film's intense and pointed musical score? Yup, Hans Zimmer is back with yet another perfect addition to the film's many strengths and a rousing score that was still buzzing in my head as I washed away the tears of the characters gone by. And before I forgot about one of the film's greatest attributes, consider its all-out sword-fighting, arrow-flinging all of which rival any other action scene from any film this year (which is saying quite a bit) and are pretty gosh-darn brutal to boot. And did you know that the film has ninjas too? Hand to God! In fact, the ninja/samurai head-to-head is about as bloody and furious as they get. Loved it all. Phew. But there's more,

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Summary: Simply Put : A Beatiful Film
Review: What can I say? This film is great! And that's an understatement. It was beatifully pieced together, and quite accurately depicted Japan at that time. They even got it right when it came down to the scrawny, wimpy, underaged Emperor of Japan, Meiji. Well, I can sit here and tell you all about the movie, but you can also see it for yourself. If you like historically accurate, well pieced together, action-packed, movies, with great actors, actresses, plot-lines, and a movie that can bring a tear to the eye, then by all means, please see this movie.

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Summary: I Like Ken Watanabe !!
Review: Very Exciting Film, and Ken Watanabe looks real Samurai. I hope he will wins the oscar, because his acting very amazing.

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Summary: I stayed awake during this movie
Review: You may think I am joking but Honestly, I enjoyed this movie from start to finish. I have found so many movies so boring of late that I just doze off during the performance.
This movie tells a good story with well paced action scenes. Beautifully photographed and with a very nice music score throughout.

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Summary: Excellent Film
Review: A great film that in any other year would've been a serious oscar contender. Tom cruise Delivers a brilliant performance along with ken watanabe. A truly entertaining, emotional masterpiece. I'd like to say that this movie is a work of fiction, and you could call any screenwriter presumptious if you were stupid enough to believe that everything they write has to be factual. Go and see the movie, and take it for what it is, and outstanding piece of cinema

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Summary: Wonderfully splendid!!!
Review: First off I must say that I did not think that Tom Cruise would shine in such in a roll, but he well exceeded my expectations. This was a splendid movie. The scenery was beautiful and the storyline was excellent. I would recommend this movie to anyone out to see a spectacularly moving movie.

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Summary: Cruise on the Epic Level
Review: First you must understand I am a huge Tom Cruise fan therefore my review may come off bias, but this is truly a great movie believe me or not! If you are a fan of epic movies (Braveheart,Gladiator, etc) then The Last Samurai is your film, and if you are a fan of the epic genre and Tom Cruise the world can get no better! This film has it all great cast, passionate and exciting storyline, and beautiful cinematography to top it off. I recommend this film to anyone and everyone, enjoy!!!

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Summary: Excelent production
Review: Based in actual facts about the life of Mutsukashi (considered one of the best samurais ever existed) they added a lot of good actors and great locations and you get a fantastic film that really gives you the sensation of being among samurais and their mysticism. This will become a classic.

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Summary: blew me away
Review: This movie just blew me away. I went to see it twice in the movie theatre and I've been dying for it to come out on DVD so I can see it again! I don't know a whole lot about this time period in Japan, so I can't comment on the historial accuracy or inaccuracy, but I have to say that from what I do know a lot of the Samurai customs are portrayed accurately as far as know. Accurate or not, this is a fabulous movie from the acting to the musical score... everything about it says five stars in my opinion. Now... having said that... I just hope they release this on fullscreen. Not all of us own widescreen TVs!