I watched 47 Ronin the other day and I’m not sure what to
think. The story was something typical for a Keanu Reeves movie. Basically he
was this guy who was trained to fight by demons and later escapes them as a kid
to be found by a Japanese lord. The lord takes him in a gives him a home. Then
the movie jumps to Keanu as an adult hunting some kind of creature with a group
of samurai. Since he is not Japanese he get referred to as a half breed and
treated as less of a person. He killed the creature but credit is given to
another man. Later there is a tournament held by the lord where a shady other
lord attends, betrays, and causes the death of the host lord. Everyone that
served under the now deceased lord is ordered not to seek revenge and that the
lords daughter is to marry the evil lord to prevent a feud between clans. One
year later the samurai get together and decide to seek revenge anyway and
rescue the daughter anyway. They ran across the issue that hardly any of them
had weapons so Keanu takes them into the forest where he was raised to get
swords from the demons that raised him. After acquiring the weapons the samurai
plan to ambush the evil lord. The plan would have worked but instead of
attacking the lord they were ambushed by the evil lords army headed by a witch.
They escaped with a few casualties, and planned a new attack at the evil lords
compound. The attack was successful the evil lord and the witch were slain, and
the daughter was returned. After all this success the 47 samurai are confronted
by the shogun, who is the man the ordered them not to seek revenge. He admits
what they did was right, but then says they all have to killed themselves for
disobeying but its o alright because they still have their honor, and the
samurai are alright with that too which I think is strange. Then at the very
end of the movie it says people actually visit the graves of these men like the
movie was an entirely true story. So in the end I was not a fan of this movie.
Also I forgot to mention *Spoiler Alert*.
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