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Billy Connolly - raconteur, comedian, and irrepressible wanderer - has spent much of his life in the...

War and Peace
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This is the official tie-in edition to the BBC adaptation of War and Peace with an exclusive...

Godzilla (2014)
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In this gritty, realistic sci-fi action epic, Godzilla returns to its roots as one of the world's...

Your Highness (2011)
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Throughout history, tales of chivalry have burnished the legends of brave, handsome knights who...

Sonofdel (6291 KP) rated Titan Quest Anniversary Edition in Video Games
Jul 15, 2020

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The Headspace Guide to...a Mindful Pregnancy
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'The expert's expert. Simplicity is the key with this technique.' The Times 'Do you guys know about...

Britain's Railways in Transition 1965-75: All Change
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Steam's final fling was almost over. The early teething troubles with Britain's new fleet of main...

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David McK (3562 KP) rated The Last Samurai (2003) in Movies
Feb 6, 2021
And this.
Which is a strong contender for one of the best of those films.
The film stars Tom Cruise (who, for once, is not playing Tom Cruise) and Ken Wattanabe, with the former a world weary US Civil War veteran (suffering from PTSD?) who is hired to train the modernising Japanese army, and the latter a Samurai leader who thinks Japan is losing its identity; moving too fast into the future.
Captured by that Samurai leader following an early battle, Algren (Cruise's character) soon finds himself beginning to wonder is he fighting in the right side...
Yes, the plot is somewhat akin to 'Dances with Wolves' (or even 'Avatar'), and I've heard the charge of the film being a White Saviour story - a charge, I have to say, that I do NOT find any merit in: indeed, I would argue the opposite (that Cruise's character is saved rather than the one doing the saving) is more true.