Made in the Czech Republic and Seoul, Korea by Japanese Director/Producer Kaz Kiriya, the movie has all of the great Samurai traits with both Asian and English actors, also Iranian and other European actors. The mix works because everyone casted is a real man, which helps to make it much more believable. No Hollywood "warrior" types in this movie. I am always excited to see a film about loyalty and honor, strength and courage in the midst of tremendous evil opposition. In the film the great Emperor himself was an iniquitous man and so was his Lieutenant, you might say a team much like Lucifer and Satan (and yep, they're not the same person—see The URANTIA Book for that information). It's good to see warriors too with tenderness and compassion. Morgan Freeman plays a very believable ex-warrior himself, who has an estate that is taken by the evil Emperor and assistant. All of the last knights were very believable. Not one was cast unwisely. To me it's like the magic a warrior of the light has when they fight against tremendous odds, like in The Lord Of The Rings, and overcome the more physically powerful Orcs, because of their virtue qualities. It seems to make them faster and their swords move more swiftly. I would rank this film 5 stars. I wanted to see Clive Owen make another film like this ever since I saw him in King Arthur. You can't go to film school to learn to be an actor to play this kind of role. You have to have once lived it. And I think Clive and company are all starseed who once were warriors with sword in hand against evil. Cliff Curtis.
~Gabriel of Urantia*MPAA = Motion Picture Association of America
