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The Last Samurai [Blu-ray]
The Last Samurai [Blu-ray]
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5A WONDERFUL HISTORICAL FANTASY
5god its good
50%Extra care taken--Bubble Wrap!!
5Spectacular!
5Amazing historical drama
51%One of Tom Cruise's Best Movies
5great movie
31%Good Movie, Blu ray suspect
51%Great Flick about the toll war takes on the people who fight it
3 Say what you will about Tom Cruise, he is a credible actor &
20%Arrogant, presumptive, historically/culturally inaccurate
41%An enjoyable cinematic experience
4I didn't see Dances with Wolves...
5Tom Cruise at his best!
5Awesomeeeeeeeeeee!!
5The Last Samari
5An unexpectedly great mixed-culture film
5REALLY REALLY GOOD MOVIE!!!!!
4The Last Samurai
20%I know the Japanese are accomodating, but this is ridiculous!
5Simply Brilliant
5Great movie
5The Last Sumari
4el ultimo samurai emn bluray
10%Fake and pretentious.
51%Excellence
41%Superb Epic
5Great movie, that stands out in its own way!
41%Tale Well Told
40%LIke this movie for it's portrayal of PTSD
41%Good story, Good action. Good Drama. Good Movie
50%Great Film, Even Better on Blu-Ray
40%Epic!
31%Great movie, clear picture, terrible sound
41%Good Movie. Wonderful Visuals. A Great Way to SHOW OFF you Hi-Def System
5Great movie and video transfer
51%19th Century Japan Meets Hollywood
20%Trite and Been-done-before
50%very good movie
31%The passing of an era
51%Great Movie, Fantastic HD Quality
51%Great addition to your Blu-Ray collection
51%Good Movie
20%poor sound
51%My bro loves it
41%Very Good Movie
51%One of my favourites
5My thoughts of why this movie was not popular in the US
41%HD DVD PQ
21%Pretty silly
31%The Good/ The Bad/ The Ugly
50%DANCES WITH WOLVES Part 2!
40%DANCES WITH WOLVES IN JAPAN
51%beautiful movie in HD
10%Awful
51%True HD
20%Tom, you can't act, you're idea of fearce is putting on your "mad face'
50%DVD THE LAST SAMURAI
5Great quality, under-rated movie
51%Amazing picture quailty
41%Last Samurai is a solid HD-DVD
40%Great Movie but poor Sound
10%NOT 1080P only 480P
50%Great MOVIE!!!
5An Even Better Version of a Great Movie
41%Predictably Re-Hashed Theme
41%A goof!
20%Not rating the movie, but the HD-DVD
51%Warrior of Peace
5A New Classic
51%The Way HDTV Should Be!!!
51%Don't be fooled. Awesome movie!
20%Pretty Good Movie, but...
51%This Movie Captured My Attention
51%Samurai
51%Spectacular--A Truly Great Film
51%DON'T MISS THIS ONE!
41%A real movie?
3hollywood samurai
51%"Perfect...They Are All Perfect..."
50%Who's your Jedi?
51%Thoroughly Entertaining
51%The Last Samurai
51%GORGEOUS TRANSFER!!! HDTV AT ITS BEST!!!
50%Tom Cruise HD-DVD
41%Betther than I expected
31%Shogun meets Dances with Wolves
40%Good Movie
51%This is Ken Watanabe's Movie
41%Surprisingly Excellent!
10%Boring Movie, Bad Acting!!!
41%Legend and Myth, but not history
4Watanabe is a jewel
51%A wondeful movie
40%Great story and visually stunning
40%worth a try
50%The best!
3How cool Samurai is!
41%Definitely a must-have action/war-DVD in your collection
51%Finding spirit
30%should give it a 2, but it was ok, and it could have been SOOOOO much better.
51%Very Good
41%Japan and the Samurai
31%"Gone with the Wind" Samurai-style
40%Give it a try
10%A film about Samurai from Hollywood. Now that WOULD be something...
51%Fantastic Movie! (Comes close to being an epic.)
51%The Last Samurai
10%A Mindless Glorification and Romanticization of War
30%Good film with fantastic imagery
10%Terrible...
5AMAZING MOVIE
30%Not right for the academy
21%Too small-scaled and unsophisticated compared with real samurai rebellions.
51%death of honor and the beginning of modern world
51%Fuden no den - Transmitting the untransmittable
41%A so moving look at ancestral values
51%True Warriors
41%A Gentle Epic
51%Epic!
10%why bother...
51%Bushido
50%Love the film:
10%A little to familiar
3It's An Edward Zwick Movie Alright
50%truly heroic
51%Excellent Epic
41%Well made movie, but...
51%Best Movie of all time-
50%...
51%An excellent movie
41%The Way of the Warrior.....
21%One dimensional
21%Edward Zwick has gone downhill ever since "Glory"
50%An Absolute Buyer
41%Great movie....let down by a cheesy Hollywood ending !!!
40%The Last Samurai leaves a Lasting impression
51%The most sophisticated society at its time.
11%Try this one on for size...
51%I think it was very nicely done!!
40%A CUT ABOVE!
41%A Grand, But Formulaic Epic.
20%The Last Samurai or Tom Cruise's Pathetic Bid for an Oscar
51%Epic masterpiece of the "pure" warrior
31%Corny ending-fairly good movie
21%Wheres the spark?
51%An amazing movie
5A film of texture and substance
31%Should Have Come Out 20 Years Ago
31%Likable, but Lacks Originality
51%Trivia note
21%A strange person to glorify
10%Here's the Remade Version Playing in Japan and Asia....
30%Beautifully shot ~~, if only TCruises character could be.
51%Writ of Samurai
20%Deja vu, anyone?
31%Has the potential, but they fabricated it.
51%AMONG CRUISE'S FINEST...
41%A Good Attempt to bring the Samurai Story to Life
20%Good Story; Bad Execution
51%A Glorious Film
10%NOT TRUE SAMURAI
51%A film for all those honourable warriors out there
51%I avoided this film for so long..
5Awesome
51%Masterful
51%Awesome Show
30%Spectacular but predictable epic.
51%A great story of lost and found honor.
41%Tightly Done Historical Action Piece
40%Great Film, If Not Historically Accurate
31%Cruising Japan
40%And the good news Is...
50%intriguing life
51%Epic movie in the traditions of "Braveheart"
51%Powerful film and powerful acting! A must see!
41%It's not about Tom Cruise
51%Great Action Flick
21%"You believe a man can change his destiny?"
4Realy Good Flick!!
41%A great film with a very strong story to tell.
51%I'm Impressed....
31%six of one
41%Samurai
51%Beautiful movie, one of the best epic movies out there.
41%Add this to your DVD collection!
41%Nice movie.
41%"Dances with Wolves" goes to Tokyo
41%Better Than Expected
51%One of the best movies I have seen
51%Better than I expected
21%As I watched this, I prayed I would go blind
20%Who? Tom Cruise. Who?
51%The heart and soul of Japan - A story of Love and Honor.
51%4.5 but that's not an option.
21%Not as good as I expected!
51%Understanding The Last Of The Samurai
51%Respect the Samurai
50%A very Good Movie
51%"Tell me how he died." "I will tell you how he lived."
31%Entertaining
51%One of my Personal Top 10 now!
50%Excellent, if you are open minded about other cultures.
40%Just plain good craftsmanship
51%Dances with Wolves in Japan?
21%Top Gun with Samuri Swords
31%Full of action but mediocre result
51%I disagree on the ending...
40%Many good points, and a few very bad
50%great action movie
50%Very entertaining and has oscar written all over it
20%Tokyo goes Hollywood
31%Cool movie, the ending was Hollywood crap.
20%beautiful photography, but . . .
41%Very well made movie not sure about the messagge
50%Tom Cruise in his best movie!
41%Good movie.
50%Wow.
51%Alright AMazon You Picked A Good One
31%Hollywood's flawed imitation of Kurosawa.
51%I loved it
40%enjoyable and powerful film
30%Predictable, but pretty and fun
40%Samurai's are tough hombres
30%A gateway film.
31%A more respectable "'Bwana" movie - 3 1/2 stars..
50%Cool
31%Entertaining
21%Cliche Story and a Stupid Historical Point of View
40%Captures essence of the Bushido
50%A great movie to watch
31%Interesting, pretty to look at, I needed more from it
31%good, but not great
31%Hilariously Eurocentric
41%Tom Cruise plays somone other than himself
21%beautiful but misleading & historically inaccurate
50%Dances with wolves but further "east"
50%`Samurai' is stupendous
20%Last Samurai as seen by the racist dunb kitty
31%A pitiful excuse...
31%Beautiful settings
40%Very Good
21%Captain America Undergoes Japanese Spiritual Transplant
50%Great story and great action
21%"Samurai" deserves to be "Last"
51%A surprisingly good film!
50%Tom the Swashbuckler!
51%One of my All-Time Favorite Movies ever
51%Superb!
51%GREAT EPIC MOVIE
31%Frustratingly Uneven
41%surprisingly good
51%the last samurai but not the last tom cruise
11%The most ironic film of the year
11%Unfortunelty not "The Last Tom Cruise Movie"
31%Decent but no Kurosawa
11%Hollywood Trying to make a film about honor? Please
41%An 'A' for scenery/costuming, a 'B-' for script/acting/etc.
41%The honor is not for sale !
10%The Sullen Samurai
51%Great Epic Movie
51%In a word, WOW!
51%From the Founder of the All-Movie Guide
51%ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR!
51%"Japan was made by a hand of brave men...
3This film could have been so much more...
11%Dances with the Samurai
51%It really is worth it!!
51%The Last Samurai
20%This Prison Moon
31%"Shogun" meets "Dances With Wolves"
51%Second Best Movie Of 2003.
51%I can't believe you don't own this already!
20%Definately a SHOGUN rip-off
21%Wonderful Technically; Awful Historically
30%Don't expect too much
41%I liked this movie!
51%Fantastic DVD!
51%The Samurai Kid
31%Good except for the Ending
51%A movie that cannot be missed!!
11%really wanted to like it . . .
40%Definitely one of the best movies of 2003
51%A Truly Touching Film
30%The story sucks, but, um... It has Ninjas!
11%Twisted history and morality
51%An excellent movie
41%Another War Film...But Indeed Fantastical
21%PC Samurais
41%A strong film . . . with a recycled storyline
31%Would Have Been Great Without Tom Cruise
3Last Samurai - Humm
41%Beautiful film
51%One of Tom Cruise's best!
51%THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI...
21%Another distorted Hollywood Blockbuster.
40%A near-great samurai epic!
50%Epic Yet Intimate Portrait of Old Japan
41%The Satsuma Rebellion -- History versus Hollywood
41%Codes of Honor
51%AWESOME
51%A superb action-epic.
31%Dances with the Samurai...
51%Loved It
40%I guess it may have resembled DWW somewhat
31%Fun, but very overrated
41%Watanabe made it great
51%Laughed, Cryed, and almost peed in my pants!
31%Watchable stuff (you can save the hara kiri for later, Tom)
51%wonderful, wonderful movie
11%Pathetically misguided
41%Of Shame and Honor - Cruise's Conflict
51%The Last Samurai.....Not Dances With Wolves
51%a beautiful masterpiece
10%Omg...very hurtful and insulting.
20%An inert, uninspired historical film
51%A Masterpiece of Wisdom
41%Best movie that was shot in NZ ever.
41%Well orchestrated battle scenes and good escape fiction
11%No research whatsoever
51%Don't miss this film
51%A Beautiful Reactionary Statement
41%Ichi Ban
50%Honor Vs. The Gatling Gun
41%A good solid movie . . . but not great
31%Full of sound and fury......
41%Tom Cruise dances with wolves
21%Over long and lacking punch
30%See TC play in the mud
41%A cinematic but flawed epic....
41%Excellent and moving ... if not entirely accurate
40%very good
41%Entertaining, semi-accurate samurai adventure
50%The Last Samurai
41%Good flick -- could have/should have been better; so-so DVD
41%Surprisingly good
40%Quasi-historic costume drama
41%Samurai is full of exciement
50%Tom Cruise At His Best!!!!
41%entertaining but not brilliant
41%The Way of the Warrior
31%Good movie, but nothing special
11%Dumb and pretentious
51%The Japanese Spirit
40%Expected to hate it -- loved it!
31%Beautifully filmed - lame story
10%This movie sucked
51%Currently in my top 10 fav's of all time.
10%Too Arrogant
20%A Good Movie Turned Bad
51%LET'S JUST KEEP OUR EYE ON THE MOVIE
51%Becoming a complete "man"
11%'Honorable'?
51%Honor, Duty, Entertainment
51%All I can say is, WOW!
4Great Movie
41%Braveheart in Japan?
41%A Genuine Film About Honor & What Humans Fight For
51%Wow! Great Movie & Lots of Extra Features
51%A Stirring Tribute to the Way of the Samurai
51%It just can't be any better
20%Dances with Samurais
41%Historically innacurate but entertaining
51%The Last Samurai - An exceptional epic film!
30%Good action movie, but not family friendly.
51%The Last Samurai (2003)
51%A Great Movie about Honor and Disappearing Culture
30%Keeps your attention, but don't buy for your collection
40%Very entertaining movie
51%One of my favorite films
21%Every once in a while...
21%Not historical, hysterical
51%Tom Cruise at his best
51%A Man Called . . . errrr . . . Nathan!
31%flawed but impressive exploitation of ignorance and history
10%Good movie
41%Moving, evocative, and underrated - an unsung great of 2003
41%Surprisingly good vehicle for Cruise
41%The Way of the Warrior
51%Good Movie.
51%It may not be history but...
21%Ego trip
41%A portrait of Bushido by an eager Cruise and sexy Watanabe
41%almost perfect
51%Fabulous in every respect!
50%Wonderful and Spectacular
41%A noble cinematic experience...
30%GOOD IDEA, BUT IT GOES ON TOO LONG
51%Believe the hype on this one!
51%Ahh, wax on wax off grasshoppa!!!!
51%Serene Elegance in a Tom Cruise Film
41%Beautiful movie about the samurai
51%This movie is breathtaking
50%Fabulous Production and a Surprisingly Enjoyable Story
41%Not too bad
51%Great Movie
50%cruise shoulda gotta oscar
4Beautifully filmed story with some powerful performances
41%Despite it's shortcomings, this is a wonderful film
31%Solid entertainment, but ...
51%The Last Samurai = A Masterpiece
4Dances with Braveheart
10%0 stars but alas that is not possible...
41%Tom Cruise ruined it for me
51%I loved it...
51%SUPERB ENTERTAINMENT
41%A first rate film
41%If You Loved Dances With Wolves and Braveheart...
51%The Definitive Cruise Epic
41%Pleasantly Surprised
11%Land of the Rising Cliche
51%This was a GREAT MOVIE. You who gave it 4 Stars I don't agr
20%ok entertainment...pitiful reality
20%Movie: decent, Tom Cruise: meh
41%Where have I seen this before???
41%Beautiful and poetic.
41%Stock Hollywood - but strangely entertaining
40%One of the best movies of the year
40%Good. Me likie.
51%Absolutely action packed with a great cast.
51%Surprisingly Fine Movie!
41%Good but not Great....
30%Very pretty
41%Beautiful to Watch, But Stretches Reality...
51%Tom Cruise's Best Performance
51%The Last Samurai Is One Of The Best
31%Some good scenes, but not quite credible
41%a real pleasure to finally see "Last Samurai"!
51%Superb movie, Cruise deserves more credit
51%The Last Samurai
51%EPIC WAR MOVIE(beware spoilers)
10%Great movie, but very Disappointing DVD
5GREAT!!
51%A Beautiful Movie
51%A Powerful and Awe-Inspiring Epic
51%One of the best
51%10 if that were an option.............
21%Hackneyed, sophomoric, cliche-driven mediocrity
41%A Good Entertainment...
41%Very Strong Story & Acting Despite Historical Inaccurateness
51%Live by the sword, die by the sword
51%The Last Samurai...Why not Best Picture 2003 ?
5A Path For The Samurai...
41%C'mon you purists!!
5Le meilleur de Tom Cruise
51%I am speechless
50%a+
51%Movie of the Year - The Last Samurai
51%Familiar formula
51%Powerful Movie
51%Superb movie swept aside by LOTR mania
41%Bushido "The Warrior Code"
51%The Samurai Lives !
51%Excellent movie...with problems
51%A transcendent vision of the human condition
41%Sweeping Saga overlaid with good performances
51%Absolutely Brilliant
51%The Journey of a Lost Soul and the Story a Dying Culture
40%Beautiful to look at
50%AMAZING
51%Awesome!
51%Outstanding
51%Even Cruise can't spoil great samurai movie
51%The last of the Samurai movies!
51%Honour
51%Simply Outstanding
51%One of the best battle scenes you'll ever see!
10%Awful
10%An utter waste of time and money.
20%unoriginal and empty
51%Dances with wolves? Maybe but this movie was fantastic!!
50%A Spiritual Journey from the West to the East
51%It made me cry..
51%Better than LOTR Return of the King
41%The Last Samurai is Ken Watanabe
41%good flick
51%Tom Cruise Triumphs Again In This Great Movie
41%Tom Cruise + repeat Shogun-type plot = good movie? Yes!
51%When should Tom Cruise get an Oscar nomination and wins it ?
40%Some aspects should have been different
51%Bravo, Bravo!!!
51%"The Last Samurai" marks Cruise's finest performance ever!!
41%Very enjoyable story, but a little touch of deja vu.
41%beauty hides a less than suitable point
51%One of the Best Movies of 2003
51%We have to let people change all by themselves
51%Beautiful, give credit where it is due
51%Best Movie I Saw In 2003
51%This film was amazing!!!
51%A True Masterpiece
51%Honor and Beauty in Hollywood
30%A soggy epic.
41%good movie, bad history
51%The movie was a perspective
51%This Movie Deserves Any Award It's Nominated For!
51%I Was Blown Away!
30%pretty weak
41%Fake but good.
31%Fantasy
51%Astonishing!
11%A major disappointment
51%Wow. That was the first word that came out of my mouth
51%I was very surprised
5Good enough for Kurosawa fans
51%Epic, Haunting and Beautiful
51%Simply Put : A Beatiful Film
51%I stayed awake during this movie
5I Like Ken Watanabe !!
51%Excellent Film
51%Wonderfully splendid!!!
50%Cruise on the Epic Level
51%Excelent production
5Oscar Worthy All the Way!
41%Cinematographer's triumph - otherwise, standard adventure
50%Great
41%Lord of the Rings meets Braveheart but not only..
5The real thing
51%Katsumoto is the King
20%better left to others......
51%tradition vs. future
5Amazing!
4The way of the warrior
41%The last samurai
50%Simply Amazing!!!
51%Loved it !!
50%A lesson to be learned
40%Movie Review: Praise and Complaints (from 3x viewer)
5What a great movie!
51%The Last Samurai
51%The Last Samurai Rules
40%Good Period Pic
51%Dances with katanas
20%Cruise as samurai!
5The Last Samurai = Oscars...Golden Globes...etc...!!!
41%Dances with Wolves ... er, Samurai
51%True "Samurai Spirit"
30%Ruined by Conventional Hollywood Filmmaking
51%The Last Samurai is awesome!!!!
41%Satisfying and engaging Samurai epic. One of 2003s best!
40%fantastic film making, but idealized japanese value!!
51%The Last Samurai
30%An American in Japan
51%Grand & Entertaining Epic. Mixture of History & Fiction.
51%Suprisingly Astounding.
10%Pretentious movie with Hollywood romantizing unfound concept
41%A beautiful requiem for traditional warriors of all kinds
51%The Samurai might be Last but not Least Entertaining
51%The best movie ever made and should easily win the oscar
41%Beautiful Film
41%"Meiji Patriotism"
41%You'll get what you paid for
41%Honorable Samurai
41%****1/2 Almost excellent
51%Touching!
51%You will be surprised.
51%one of the year's best, so far
51%My 2nd Favorite Movie
51%Stunning
51%No cheese or gratuitous ANYTHINg in this film.
41%The Last Samurai- An Entertaining Epic
51%Dances with Wolves, but not in a "slap in the face" way
41%Not Kurosawa, But Still Engaging Story of the Lost Ideal
30%"SAKI"
41%Flawed, but worthy
51%Incredible movie
51%Stranger in a Strange Land
50%Powerful Epic
41%good Hollywood movie
51%The last Samurai-nearly 5 stars!! a must see
51%Far more then I expected.
51%Wow!
51%I've seen it three times!!!
20%Good movie gone Ronin
10%"Not Real History But A Fun Fantasy Adventure",
51%Best Movie of the Year by far!
51%The Essence of the Samurai
31%Sags in the middle
41%Excellent Movie
51%Better than I thought it'd be
41%4 1/2 Stars
51%THE BEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE!!!!
50%The Last Samurai is brilliant!
41%mistermeech
51%The Moose Hole - Cruise's 'Last' Oscar Stand
51%Honor, loyalty & living every breath
50%My Favortite movie by far
30%Not a good copy of "braveheart"
30%entertaining but its not history
51%To Die for Honor
41%The Last Samurai
41%Tom Cruise goes all superhero samurai.
51%Five stars!
51%Wow! I love it!
51%'Last Samurai' a story of honor
51%A wonderful role for Ken Watanabe
30%A polished, though predictable samurai epic
20%Tarzan redux
51%A Damm Good Movie!!
41%Shogun meets Dances With Wolves
51%Where are the American Samurais?
51%This movie ROCKS!
41%Ken Watanabe deserves an Oscar!
51%Best Picture of the Year
51%TRADITION VS NEW AGE
51%Kudos to Tom Cruise as an American last Samurai
51%The clear leader for Best Picture thus far.
41%Close but no cigar
51%A Movie For Everyone
51%First off...
10%Mocks Japan While Claiming to be "Sympathetic"
10%Weak offering, too much Tom Cruise screen time
31%WOoOH, LOOK! THE GAIKOKUJIN, OUR SAVIOUR!
51%The Last Samurai
41%A worth-while samurai movie in the new millenium
50%I'm impressed
51%Outstanding
51%Has caused Shawshank to move to 2nd place!!!
31%Good action flick, so-so epic
51%The best film of the year!!!!!
51%Saw the Sneak Peak of it Last Night...Loved It!!!
30%Disappointing
51%Don't Miss It!
30%Beautiful and solid, but not great
51%it does not disappoint
20%Tedious
51%Honor
50%Very Entertaining and has oscar written all over it
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