By Trust Created | Summary | Acting | Film | Edge | Reality |
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TRUST WEIGHTED | Perfect | Really Great | Perfect | Sordid | Surreal |
AVERAGE | Perfect | Really Great | Really Great | Sordid | Surreal |
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Perfect
5.0
13 Assassins is a perfect samurai movie, complete with the gathering of a hit-squad, an assassination-worthy villain,… |
Really Great
4.5
A few of the uniformly excellent stars stand out, even to Occidental eyes.
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Perfect
5.0
Samurai films are ultimate male fantasies, with boys and men performing as knightly action heroes, übermensch who walk … |
Sordid
2.6
The savage violence is conveyed as much through facial expressions and sound effects as through swords slicing skin. T… |
Surreal
2.9
Surreal battle sequences don't obscure the movie's window into a proto-fascist society where soldiers pledge death to p… |
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Really Great
4.5
This visually stunning movie follows 13 samurai warriors who plot to kill a tyrannical brother of the Shogun leader. In… |
Great
4.0
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Really Great
4.5
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Horrid
4.0
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Glib
1.9
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Perfect
5.0
"13 Assassins" was, I believe, the first true samurai movie I've ever watched, but it certainly won't be my last. That … |
Perfect
5.0
My favorite acting in the entire movie is in the first scene (a solo spot), but the rest of the movie maintains an incr… |
Really Great
4.5
The story was somewhat hard to follow, not, I think, because of the story itself but because the names (being foreign f… |
Sordid
3.3
There's a lot of blood and graphic sword-fight violence as well as one scene that will leave you with a horrific mental… |
Glib
2.0
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Feb 23, 2014 12:32AM
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Really Great 83 Points |