For a Tom Cruise Vanity Project, not bad. Enjoyable. A bit bloated at 2 1/2 hours, but again, Vanity Project. Good job with the fight scenes. Interesting: a story about an American accepting Japanese values, featuring sword fights that attempt to respect spatial continuity in the Asian style, as opposed to the Way of Bay. (Not always successful -- thanks for the slo-mo replay, btw -- but the attempt is there.) Playing the Nerd Card: it made me want to play the Legend of the Five Rings collectible card game, and making me want to play a game is a special merit badge that few films attain.
Where we saw it: film | We deign to rate it: outta 100