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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

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.

I haven't heard of the 47 Ronin story this was based on, but given it's reception and it's failure at the box office, I might want to do some research when I have a chance. I mean, the trailers looked great and exciting for the most part, but unfortunately, Universal Pictures didn't realize that the marketing for the film wasn't that good. Not to mention that it came out the same month as The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, which garnered more attention There are some good things about the film. The acting is fine for the most part. Keanu Reeves from The Matrix, Rinko Kikuchi from Pacific Rim, and everyone else involved did their best. The costumes are nice and there are some nice details, but there two of the best things about this film. Ilan Eshkeri, the guy who composed the score for Stardust, does a great job with his music here, using authentic Japanese violins, gives some scope to the film, and some really neat action cues. And then there's the visuals. John Mathieson, who did the cinematography for Ridley Scott's films including Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, and Robin Hood, creates some of the best visuals for a live-action feature film. The landscapes, the forests, the mountains, and the medieval-like Japanese setting has some great detail. Oh, and the special effects are really neat too especially the dragon. Kudos to that.And now for the bad parts. I understand that it tries to be accurate to the historical event this was based on, but the only problem is, it takes itself way too seriously. The script is really stale, the dialog is really clichéd, the characters are one-dimensional and are really undeveloped, the writing is really terrible, and the pacing is really boring. Which is a shame, because the money for the production design was well-spent.Overall, 47 Ronin isn't exactly a terrible movie. It's really beautiful in it's production design, but it could've been so much better if they gave more believability to the characters and story. It's sad to say that this receives a thumbs down from me. :(