Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Monique One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

gio_seb Storyline, lots of action, great ending, etc. Overall a great movie. IDK why the critics are so critical. I've recently seen Sorry to Bother You and that movie was absolute horse-d***. I can't believe critics gave that movie an average of mid 80s and 47 Ronin an average rating of 45s. 47 Ronin is a must watch. Very understand.

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 .

Horror Icon "My father taught me this world was only a preparation for the next, that all we can ask is that we leave it having loved and being loved."For someone whose favourite movie is 'The Last Samurai', I thought I would very much enjoy this movie. I was wrong. It's actually a very dull action movie for 13 years and under who may have also enjoyed 'The Hobbit 3'. It's pretty basic. Samurai (oh, sorry - 'Ronin') argue, get into fight, lose fight, try again, get a sacred weapon, lose fight, win fight. That's pretty much it. The mystical aspects in the movie felt out of place and unnecessary. The CGI seemed cheap and needless. If the story was about Ronin returning to save their homeland, why add in ridiculous magic creatures? Now, I'm not into the "if we have a Japanese movie, we HAVE to have a Japanese protagonist", as I loved the Last Samurai, which had Tom Cruise as the lead, but in that movie, it made sense. It was part of the plot. A Western man learns Japanese ways. Yet in '47 Ronin', there's no good reason for a non-Japanese lead actor. So Keanu Reaves just should have been replaced.The ending, as it was perhaps the only unique aspect of this movie, felt out of place. Won't say what happened, but let's say that the entire movie was not a gritty movie, but it had an out-of- place gritty ending. Even if children enjoyed this movie, they wouldn't enjoy the ending, thus they removed their only potential fan-base. Overall, a bad imitation of 'The Last Samurai' that just doesn't work. It didn't feel very Japanese at all to be honest. If you really want to watch a samurai movie, you should watch it, but leave your mind behind, because it's basically your unintelligent action movie.

Leofwine_draca 47 RONIN tells the famous story about vengeful ex-samurai seeking revenge for their former master and of course is one of the most famous true life events in the whole of Japanese history. This big bucks Hollywood adaptation of the tale takes the basic facts and moulds them into an expensive, expansive fantasy film. If you're looking for somebody to blame for what might be termed a travesty, go no further than Universal, who apparently viewed the first cut and told the director to add more 'Harry Potter style fantasy sequences'.Because Harry Potter-style action is just what this film needs, of course. Thus 47 RONIN is full of incessantly poor CGI action spectacle that reminded me a little of THE EMPEROR AND THE WHITE SNAKE, a similarly silly production made by the Chinese. Take out the fantasy and you have a moderately interesting revenge story; leave it in and you get a ridiculously overblown story with effects that have already dated in just the few years since the film was released.The cast is the most interesting thing about the production. Keanu Reeves, no stranger to the wiles of Asian cinema, takes on the same role as Tom Cruise in THE LAST SAMURAI, acting as the western audience's way into the tale. It's not one of his better performances. Thankfully, the casting director has gone out of their way to include genuine Japanese talent, including Masayoshi Haneda (MEMORIES OF MATSUKO), Tadanobu Asano (TOKYO ZOMBIE), Ko Shibasaki (ONE MISSED CALL), Min Tanaka (THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI), and of course the great and immortal Hiroyuki Sanada, one of my favourite Japanese actors. All give solid performances, and the main casting problem lies with Rinko Kikuchi (PACIFIC RIM), whose acting as the evil witch is pantomime-style over the top.47 RONIN does have plenty of action and spectacle to recommend it, but even scenes of the characters crossing a wild landscape are reminiscent of the LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy. The action scenes are quite good and I liked the attempts to bring certain creatures from Japanese mythology to the screen, even if they're not always successful. It was also a delight to see Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa NOT playing a villain for a change. In the end, though, this is another Hollywood bastardisation of an eastern fable, and as such it can't be forgiven easily for its mistakes.