Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

pointyfilippa The movie runs out of plot and jokes well before the end of a two-hour running time, long for a light comedy.

binayoli I was with my friend at my KUSMS hostel in Dhulikhel Nepal with my friends. It was already 9:30 pm and we had nothing to do. So I was browsing through the movies that would get us through that night, Then I found this movie and we all decided to watch it as it was led by Kenue Reeves whom I have known form Matrix Trilogy and John Wick. I had very little expectation from the movie but upon watching it began to become more and more interesting and I really loved it to the end. Action Fantasy movie 47 Ronin is the combination of good action sequence and the portrayal of the true Japanese story. Kenue Reeves has shown excellent acting as well as action performance. It is not the best movie I have watched and have many scenes which could have been portrayed way better; but has the action and emotional scenes regarding Samurai order and dignity that will grip you through the end. This is the very good movie and I really enjoyed.

isams-54964 In my opinion the movie 47 Ronin is an amazing movie.The actor Keanu Reeves does an amazing job portraying the main character in the movie. The movie is about a jealous Lord that fears that the shogun favors another lord over him and hatches a plot that ends with the other lords ritual suicide. After the other lords death, his samurai, led by Oishi (Hiroyuki Sanada ), are forced to live as outcasts. Oishi wanders for several years but realizes that he must turn to Kai (Keanu Reeves), a mixed-blood warrior he once rejected, to help him and his ronin ( a samurai without lord or master during the feudal period )comrades take revenge on Lord Kira. The movie has a great love story which one is prepared to sacrifice oneself for another. The movie shots like point of view and close up view. although the movie was great i didn't like that fact the all but one of the ronin had to die when they did a good deed

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.

Gavin Cresswell (gavin-thelordofthefu-48-460297) 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. :(