Fearing for their lives and livelihood, a group of villagers hire seven samurai to protect them from a group of marauding bandits.
For my shame, this is the first Samurai movie I've ever seen, and if this is anything to go by, I've seriously been missing out.
A bold statement, but I would call this film a masterpiece, it's actually pretty long, but where some modern two or three hour modern films bore me a little, I hadn't noticed that an afternoon had passed me by, it had actually gone dark when the credits rolled.
Quite a lot of violence for a film of this time, the main showdown is a fantastic, quite brutal scene, it's the moment you wait for, although the initial character play is very interesting, the acting is too notch.
I've read a few comments where people have said they found it hard to follow, personally I didn't, I engaged the whole way through.
Visually very striking, the sets and production values hold up remarkably well.
It's brilliant, 10/10.
For my shame, this is the first Samurai movie I've ever seen, and if this is anything to go by, I've seriously been missing out.
A bold statement, but I would call this film a masterpiece, it's actually pretty long, but where some modern two or three hour modern films bore me a little, I hadn't noticed that an afternoon had passed me by, it had actually gone dark when the credits rolled.
Quite a lot of violence for a film of this time, the main showdown is a fantastic, quite brutal scene, it's the moment you wait for, although the initial character play is very interesting, the acting is too notch.
I've read a few comments where people have said they found it hard to follow, personally I didn't, I engaged the whole way through.
Visually very striking, the sets and production values hold up remarkably well.
It's brilliant, 10/10.