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This is a gorgeous movie with amazing visuals and fantastic actors. Besides that, though, it's kind of bad. Weird, inconsistent, story with plot holes is a major distraction from the spectacle of the movie.
The story of the "47 Ronin" is a classic, cherished, Japanese tale of samurai loyalty, so you can imagine there was quite a bit of (justified) squawking when they turned it into an American, English-language, popcorn-movie starring a non-Japanese actor. For all the conceptual flaws this movi...