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Created Sep 10, 2007 02:16AM PST • Edited Sep 10, 2007 02:16AM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Very Good 3.5

   Well produced Tom Cruise historical epic, appealing to those of us who like such entertainments. As he so often does, Cruise plays a character at once naive and smug, who reveals an admirable steeliness by the third reel.

4. Acting

   Great 4.0

   Not only Tom Megastar, but also Ken Watanabe shines in this movie.

5. Male Stars Great 4.0

6. Female Stars Great 4.0

7. Female Costars Great 4.0

8. Male Costars Great 4.0

10. Film

    Very Good 3.5

    Lustrous production of the late 1800s, first and briefly in San Francisco, then in Old Japan.

11. Direction Very Good 3.5

12. Play Very Good 3.5

13. Music Very Good 3.5

14. Visuals Very Good 3.5
15. Content

16. Edge

    Risqué 2.0

17. Sex Innocent 1.3

18. Violence Brutal 3.0

19. Rudeness Salty 1.7

21. Reality

    Glib 1.7

22. Circumstantial Surreal 2.1

23. Biological Glib 1.9

24. Physical Natural 1.0