Review of 47 Ronin (2013) by Dukejon — 30 May 2014
Pretty dull - a film killed by very uneven pacing, poor acting and frustrating plotting. You wait 45 minutes for the movie to start then when all the action finally starts happening it's over really quickly.
Keanu Reeves isn't convincing in the main role and his love interest isn't convincing either. You never really feel that there's any connection between them. The samurai are all pretty nameless. The witch is annoying and out of place.
The film portrays feudal Japan very convincingly but you keep getting tolkien-esque monsters cropping up all the time that jar against everything else. The action, when it happens, is decent but it's either a famine or a feast.
They all commit suicide at the end, which left me feeling very cheated with a feeling of what was all the point of it all. The most frustrating thing is that you could really feel that there was a great film in here that was sunk by all the lousy editing, poor acting and bad plot choices.
Could have been on a level with the Lord of the Rings films but at the end of the day they simply got too much wrong.
This review of 47 Ronin (2013) was written by Dukejon on 30 May 2014.
47 Ronin has generally received mixed reviews.
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