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WARRIORS.(The Last Samurai)(Movie Review)
In "The Last Samurai," Tom Cruise, an American trying to master Japanese fighting techniques, repeatedly gets knocked on his ass--he's tripped up and flipped over by limbs moving faster than his own, and then thwacked across the back, chest, or neck with a wooden sword as he goes down. He gets up, of course, and eventually he learns to fight as well as the greatest swordsman in Japan. Now, some people may be dismayed by the cultural vanity implicit in the idea of a white guy's becoming a superb Eastern warrior, but no one can deny that Cruise is a scrapper. Could one imagine John Wayne or Gary Cooper, at a comparable stage in his career, hitting the dirt again and again? ...
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- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Newman, Bruce December 5, 2003 700+ words
...campaigns that followed the Civil War _ alternating trick shots...go fight against the samurai, that is effectively...Kevin Costner's drunken Civil War hero went to live among...is sent to fight the samurai, led by the charismatic...
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- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) December 4, 2003 700+ words
...campaigns that followed the Civil War _ alternating trick shots...go fight against the samurai, that is effectively...Kevin Costner's drunken Civil War hero went to live among...is sent to fight the samurai, led by the charismatic...
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- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) Norman, Neil April 3, 2003 700+ words
...in Edward Zwick's The Last Samurai as Quentin Tarantino fills...video in June. In The Last Samurai, Cruise stars as an American Civil War officer in Japan hired to help...militia defeat the few remaining samurai warriors. In the process he...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times December 5, 2003 700+ words
...sided pummeling in "The Last Samurai," an otherwise beautifully...to modern sensibilities, "Samurai," opening today in area theaters...Algren (Tom Cruise) is a Civil War veteran who, when we first...this case to the defense of samurai fighters in danger of being...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times December 5, 2003 700+ words
...ostensible hero of "The Last Samurai," a historical saga...Kevin Costner's Civil War veteran in "Dances...STARS TITLE: "The Last Samurai" RATING: R (Graphic...Tom Cruise plays a Civil War veteran who goes to...adviser, in "The Last Samurai." [NO CREDIT]
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- Newspaper article from: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minn.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) December 3, 2003 700+ words
...curtsy once in "The Last Samurai," but there's no disguising...his own goodness. In "Samurai," he's Nathan Algren, a bitter, drunken Civil War veteran who, proclaiming...s army of warriors, the samurai. Algren is fine with that...
