47 Ronin (2013)

I am familiar with the historical tale of the 47 Ronin. I thought that this film was very interesting and visually beautiful. I am a big Keanu fan, and I thought that he was great in this. I am also a very big Hiroyuki Sanada fan, and he was, as always, impeccable. For those of you who boo hoo the "historical Innacuracy," read the history of Japan sometime. It's full of Gods and Goddesses, witches and demons.

Movie Review: "47 Ronin" (2013)One of the rare Hollywood multi-million-dollar productions that have beats of high-end entertainment, but then again suffer under a non-existing directorial vision, when former short-to-commercial director Carl Rinsch gets a magical 175-Million-Dollar production distributed by Universal Pictures in Holiday season 2013/2014 based on a ancient Japanese legend of forty-seven masterless "Samurai", the so-called "Ronin", which went out to avenge their assassinated master and fulfill adventurous tasks along the way until the ultimate confrontation with "The Witch", portrayed to viciously-extent by Japanese-import actress Rinko Kikuchi, where leading actor Keanu Reeves as Kai and counterpart Native-Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, known for "Last Samurai" (2003) supporting Hollywood star Tom Cruise and being part of an to this day under-appreciated ensemble science-fiction-drama "Sunshine" (2007) directed by Danny Boyle, dwelling to come along with epic scenes of a cut-down 120-Minutes towards an emotional fall-out editorial by unless masterful editor Stuart Baird, who had been galvanizing motion pictures since "The Omen" (1976), "Superman" (1978) and "Lethal Weapon" (1987) that there is no chance by the end of "47 Ronin" to find some satisfactory state of having seen an enjoyable movie, which it just should have been with a better choice in producing partners.Copyright 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

Good but the real story of 47 ronin as it happened in history is not represented in this movie. Kira who was the shogun's manner instructor didn't get the customary bribe, so he didn't teach Asano the proper way to greet the Shogun in the actual story, and was humiliated for improper greeting of shogun which enraged him to draw a sword against Kira in the castle which was crime punishable by death. Ooishi and 47 ronin who lost their master swore vengeance on Kira, and that was the story of 47 ronin. Here the story is more like a fantasy. Since the story here is an American original, this review is for an American fiction movie. It's kind of a bastardization of how samurai lived in their days, and creating good action movie. As such, movie is of good quality, and doesn't disappoint. While some of the premise seems ridiculous to the ones versed in the way of samurai, that is forgiven as ignorance towards the true culture of the samurai. Some American movie has done a better job in this area (like the Last Samurai ),this is an acceptable and interesting version of 47 ronin.

The original story in Japan is a moving and inspiring one about loyalty and honor. America has turned that into a joke. The story is so old and moving, so much so that the Shinsengumi of the Bakumatsu created their uniforms based on the haori patterns of the 47 samurai in this story. The color asagi was considered poor for samurai, but it was chosen to represent absolute loyalty and devotion to their lord, Matsudaira Katamori of Aizu. This movie not only inserts a white protagonist that saves the day, but also vilifies the Japanese. It injects a totally ridiculous and bastardized element of the supernatural into movie and white washes yet another foreign film. This is everything bad about The Last Samurai, except even worse. Do not watch this movie, the writing is insulting.