zidangus
Just watched this on Netflix, and it was kinda alright for a fantasy movie. The set looked nice and the acting was decent. The plot was pretty predictable even if you don't know the 47 ronin story already. The plot where the 'half breed' Keanu Reeves, does everything and anything to rescue the girl so he can then kill himself with the other 'samurai' in a mass suicide, was pretty stupid and kinda ruined what would have been a quite nice good guy wins happy ending.
Anyway, if your bored it's worth a watch, but I would not go out of your way to see it.
ma-cortes
Yet another retelling based on 47 Ronin . Here is set in a weird world of witches , necromancy, giants and monsters . It deals with an adopted young Kai : Reeves who enters at an official combat when the original fighter is blinded . Things go awry when a feudal lord , Kira: Asano , is bewitched by an ominous witch : kikuchi , and commits a wrong and is then condemned by the Shogun : Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa , being punished into committing Seppuku or suicide by sword Katana . The samurais led by Oisi : Hiroyuki Sanada , set out to avenge the dishonor and death of their master at the hands of a ruthless , corrupt lord .Commanded by a fallen samurai and a half-breed warrior, Kao : Keanu Reeves , raise against the sadistic ruler . Kao teams up Oisi and 45 other banished Ronin , in order to not only save Ako , but Kai's sweetheart , Mika: Shibasaki , from a cruel lord As their entire fate lies on the hands of two knights , Kai and Oisi. Their threaten people made them leaders , history made them heroes . Features strong rivalry, thrills , emotion , spectacular combats , intense drama and lots of sword-play .It is plenty of good human values such as bravery , knighthood, honour , redemption , comradeship , and deep sacrifice . It has a dramatic style and full of color with a lot of scenarios as interior as exterior .Keanu Reeves gives a decent acting as Kai , a person who was found at a ditch being adopted by Samurais. His role seems to be pattered by
3 important figures : William Adams , an English sailor who became the first Western samurai , the character Nathan Algren from Edward Zwick's The last samurai played by Tom Cruise and Minamoto Yoshitsune , a 12th Century warrior . The movie is full of notorious Japanese secondaries who were cast alongside Keanu to make the tale more authentic such as : Sanada, Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa , Akanishi , Rinko Kikuchi as a nasty witch , and Shibadaki as Keanu's girlfriend .The colorful cinematography by John Mathieson is generously laden by views of palaces and Japanese fortress as well as paronamic vistas . Thrilling and rousing musical score in Oriental style by Ilan Eshkeri , though composer Javier Navarrete composed a soundtrack for the original cut but it was not used by the production company . The motion picture was well directed by Carl Rinsch, being his directorial debut , howewer , he clashed with Universal over the final vision of the movie .The film didn't have excessive success in the cinema theatres , if did well in video clubs , DVD retails and Blue-ray .This is the sixth cinematic recounting of the 47 Ronin incident , as : version 1942 by Kengi Migozuchi this is the largest renditionbof the Kabuky story by Deika Mayama ; the loyal 47 Ronin from year 1958 ; Chusingura 1962 ; Ako jo danzetsu ; 47 Ronin 1984 ; Saigo no Husingira 2010 ; and the recent rendition 2015 titled Last Knights with John Cusack , Morgan Freeman, Cliff Curtis , Aksel Hennie .
isams-54964
In my opinion the movie 47 Ronin is an amazing movie.The actor Keanu Reeves does an amazing job portraying the main character in the movie. The movie is about a jealous Lord that fears that the shogun favors another lord over him and hatches a plot that ends with the other lords ritual suicide. After the other lords death, his samurai, led by Oishi (Hiroyuki Sanada ), are forced to live as outcasts. Oishi wanders for several years but realizes that he must turn to Kai (Keanu Reeves), a mixed-blood warrior he once rejected, to help him and his ronin ( a samurai without lord or master during the feudal period )comrades take revenge on Lord Kira. The movie has a great love story which one is prepared to sacrifice oneself for another. The movie shots like point of view and close up view. although the movie was great i didn't like that fact the all but one of the ronin had to die when they did a good deed
shannonmariekennett
If you are skeptical of this film due to the most outrageously stupid ratings, just do it. It will be the best decision you make, one of my now favorite movies ever, so beautiful, honoring and all around amazing. Please please! give this a watch, you won't regret it! I can't understand why anyone would give this less than at least an 8, even if you aren't a fan of movies like this you can still most definitely appreciate it and see it's beauty, I personally was skeptical about watching this at first due to the reviews and I'm so glad that I did, really shows some actual history in there too as well as making it very entertaining.
