April 2014 50 Movie Challenge - Favorites

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by jrphillips10

So a person who hasn't seen many samurai flicks, other than Enter The Dragon, likes action films and isn't anti Keanu Reeves? Rent first?

Yeah, I'd say rent it first if possible.

Originally Posted by cinemaphile

I can't go so far as to call it a good movie, but it's far from the disaster people make it out to be. It's actually a decent film, 3/5. Its problem is it is a film with an identity crisis - If it was a straight historical epic, that would work fine. And if it wanted to be more of a fantasy movie, that would be fine as well. But it couldn't decide which it wanted to be, so it ends up a historical film with a small amount of fantasy/scifi elements mixed in and it just feels off. If they wanted to be more fantastical, they needed to just go all in and go further with it, or don't include it at all.

I wouldn't recommend blind buying it unless it was at least under $10, but worth checking out and then deciding for yourself.

I will say this: don't bother seeing (or buying) it in 3D. There's barely any 3D used in it at all, and what there is adds nothing. (seriously, I wondered at times if they accidentally ran the 2D version. I could take off my glasses for 10 minutes at a time and everything on screen was perfectly clear)

I agree with that assessment; I also graded it 3/5. I probably would have liked it better if it had more fantasy stuff in it, or none at all.