To (re)watch online: Great adventure film with a 140 million budget, harshly criticized at the cinema

Making this film with Tom Cruise cost 140 million dollars and the work was highly criticized at the time.

If you like to dive into a historical era, you should open the Prime Video catalog today. Tom Cruise can be seen inside The Last Samurai. A film that not only impressed with its scenography and crowd scenes, but was also heavily criticized upon its release.

What is The Last Samurai about?

Tom Cruise plays the role of former American soldier Nathan Algren, an alcoholic and abused man. In 1870 he was entrusted with the profitable mission of training the emperor’s army in Japan: he accepted, but was soon captured by rebel samurai.

Over time, the soldier befriends the samurai Katsumoto (Ken Watanabe) and his family, falls in love and becomes increasingly fascinated by Japanese culture. Algren learns the ways of the samurai, trains in martial arts, and eventually even joins the rebellion. To some extent, he manages to help his former enemies.

In the end, however, disaster takes its course: the samurai rebellion has no chance against the emperor’s troops, numerically superior and also equipped with modern firearms.

This is why The Last Samurai was so harshly criticized at the time

A discussion has developed around The Last Samurai that involves many films of this type: on the one hand the film is based on historical events, but on the other it conveys numerous errors, clichés and inaccuracies (via: NY Times).

There was also a heated debate…

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