"Samurai - come!"

I've heard it's a bugger to get out of the sheets...

Well that's two and a half hours of my life I'm not getting back - The Last Samurai, with Tom Cruise. And this is a fan of his talking (those that give a toss about the plot and haven't seen it yet should probably stop reading now).

Basically it irritated the tits off me that if the 'big-up the honour thing' samurai had told the emperor what he should do when he was asked his opinion instead of wibbling, he could have avoided thousands of people dying needlessly. Okay, so it would have been a shorter film in which even less happens (first hour and a half - Cruise is involved in a minor skirmish and learns Japanese. That's. About. It.) but then again that might not have been a bad thing. Pretty much the only positive thing I can say it that is was better than Vanilla Sky, which was the biggest pile of shite I've seen for a long time. I think I'll have to go and re-watch the Mission: Impossibles to recover my faith...