Lost and lifeless `Samurai'
THE LAST SAMURAI Directed by Edward Zwick Starring Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Timothy Spall, Billy Connolly, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada. IT is 1876 and Captain Nathan Algren sits backstage on a fairground, bottle held lovingly in hand, viewing the world with hazy, drunken eyes. Out there, a soldier delivers a long introduction to a crowd steeped in the idea that war is glorious.
Author(s): Reviewed by Sharon Nelson
Copyright: NSTP
Published on: 24 January 2004
Publication: New Straits Times