A couple of immediate thoughts come to me when I think about Tom Cruise's War-is-hell epic with an Asian twist.
Yeah, its actually quite alot more than that but I couldn't help but think about how much Cruise enjoyed playing the shamed soldier and then all that sword play. Oh yeah. Anyway, I rather liked this movie. It had elements of many movies in it but told its own story and an interesting and compelling story it was.
Tom Cruise is a good actor. He's too good looking to be a great actor but he is a good actor (unlike David Caruso who I had the misfortune to watch a few minutes of him on CSI Miami, the guy simply cannot act) and the movie had a good plot.
But the story also suffered for Cruise's acting or rather, the plot stumbled a bit during those sequences where we're supposed to understand everything that's happening in Cruise's character by the arch and angle of his eye brows and Joel-Get-Off-the-Babysitter-expression. The other thing that made the movie hard to really get into was the lack of understanding for why the character is the way he is, he looks shell shocked in every scene except when he's killing people by pistol, rifle or sword.
It was far better than Club Dread and lots better than most of the other movies Cruise has been pumping out. But it suffered from a slow pace, plot threads carried by eyebrow and mysterious motivations. Its a thumbs up but not by a whole lot.
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