Blade of the 47 ronin

I know the 47 Ronin is not considered to be a good movie; however, I am a fan. While imperfect, there are certain elements of the filmmaking and storytelling that were memorable. This film lacks most, if not all of those elements, and is hardly a sequel to the Keanu Reeves 2013 film. It reminds me of a film styled more after the Wu Assassins movie, than the Reeves story of 47 Masterless Samurai that defend their honor in a battle with evil and magic. This movie has some good elements but it is corny and visually very low budget. The CGI blood is too unrealistic for my taste. The characters too silly. I do like some of the marital arts and I do like some of the stars of the film, particularly the lead female star. I tried to look at this as a stand alone to see if it might fare better, but, sadly, it did not. If you are not a martial arts movie fan I would deduct an additional star. Set in the not too distant future in Budapest, Hungary, the ancient clans of Japanese Samurai continue to operate in the shadows of society on a global scale as they did in Feudal Japan. Yurei (Dan Southworth), a descendant of the witch Mizuki who was an adversary of the 47 Ronin, sets his sights on acquiring the Witch Blade and Warrior Blade so he can form the Tengu Blade and wipe out the Samurai for good. As the Samurai lords meet to discuss the rising threat, it is learned only a descendant of the 47 Ronin may wiled the blade that will defeat ancient evil as dictated by the prophecy, but with...

Blade of the 47 Ronin (2022) Review Who would have thought we would be seeing a sequel to 47 Ronin among all of the Halloween goodies? But sure enough, Universal 1440 Entertainment, the company’s direct-to-video department, has come up with Blade of the 47 Ronin, a modern-day sequel to the Keanu Reeves samurai epic. And they said there’s no such thing as The Great Pumpkin. Somewhere in Budapest Yurei (Dan Southworth, As the other clans argue over what to do about the sword and the prophecy attached to it, Onami (Teresa Ting, Don Peyote, She Has A Name) one of Lord Shinshiro’s (Mark Dacascos, A skilled tracker he once served Shinshiro but is now a ronin. He finds out the sword is in the hands of Luna (Anna Akana, Amphibia, Big City Greens) a young American woman with a shady past and a very uncertain future. Blade of the 47 Ronin was directed by Ron Yuan (Ron Yuan, Unspoken: Diary of an Assassin, Step Up China) a veteran actor with over a hundred and seventy credits to his name ranging from Ring of Fire to Mulan and The script, which took three writers, Aimee Garcia, A.J. Mendez, and John Swetnam (Into the Storm, Breaking Through) gives him plenty of chances to stage them while giving the cast lines like “You’re just going to leave a beheaded dude on the ground?” But apart from that, it’s a fairly typical East meets West action film with some fantasy elements thrown in involving the fusing of the Blade of 47 Ronin with the Witch Blade to create a Tengu Blade. What this all ...

I know the 47 Ronin is not considered to be a good movie; however, I am a fan. While imperfect, there are certain elements of the filmmaking and storytelling that were memorable. This film lacks most, if not all of those elements, and is hardly a sequel to the Keanu Reeves 2013 film. It reminds me of a film styled more after the Wu Assassins movie, than the Reeves story of 47 Masterless Samurai that defend their honor in a battle with evil and magic. This movie has some good elements but it is corny and visually very low budget. The CGI blood is too unrealistic for my taste. The characters too silly. I do like some of the marital arts and I do like some of the stars of the film, particularly the lead female star. I tried to look at this as a stand alone to see if it might fare better, but, sadly, it did not. If you are not a martial arts movie fan I would deduct an additional star. Set in the not too distant future in Budapest, Hungary, the ancient clans of Japanese Samurai continue to operate in the shadows of society on a global scale as they did in Feudal Japan. Yurei (Dan Southworth), a descendant of the witch Mizuki who was an adversary of the 47 Ronin, sets his sights on acquiring the Witch Blade and Warrior Blade so he can form the Tengu Blade and wipe out the Samurai for good. As the Samurai lords meet to discuss the rising threat, it is learned only a descendant of the 47 Ronin may wiled the blade that will defeat ancient evil as dictated by the prophecy, but with...

Blade of the 47 Ronin (2022) Review Who would have thought we would be seeing a sequel to 47 Ronin among all of the Halloween goodies? But sure enough, Universal 1440 Entertainment, the company’s direct-to-video department, has come up with Blade of the 47 Ronin, a modern-day sequel to the Keanu Reeves samurai epic. And they said there’s no such thing as The Great Pumpkin. Somewhere in Budapest Yurei (Dan Southworth, As the other clans argue over what to do about the sword and the prophecy attached to it, Onami (Teresa Ting, Don Peyote, She Has A Name) one of Lord Shinshiro’s (Mark Dacascos, A skilled tracker he once served Shinshiro but is now a ronin. He finds out the sword is in the hands of Luna (Anna Akana, Amphibia, Big City Greens) a young American woman with a shady past and a very uncertain future. Blade of the 47 Ronin was directed by Ron Yuan (Ron Yuan, Unspoken: Diary of an Assassin, Step Up China) a veteran actor with over a hundred and seventy credits to his name ranging from Ring of Fire to Mulan and The script, which took three writers, Aimee Garcia, A.J. Mendez, and John Swetnam (Into the Storm, Breaking Through) gives him plenty of chances to stage them while giving the cast lines like “You’re just going to leave a beheaded dude on the ground?” But apart from that, it’s a fairly typical East meets West action film with some fantasy elements thrown in involving the fusing of the Blade of 47 Ronin with the Witch Blade to create a Tengu Blade. What this all ...

Blade of the 47 Ronin (2022) Review Who would have thought we would be seeing a sequel to 47 Ronin among all of the Halloween goodies? But sure enough, Universal 1440 Entertainment, the company’s direct-to-video department, has come up with Blade of the 47 Ronin, a modern-day sequel to the Keanu Reeves samurai epic. And they said there’s no such thing as The Great Pumpkin. Somewhere in Budapest Yurei (Dan Southworth, As the other clans argue over what to do about the sword and the prophecy attached to it, Onami (Teresa Ting, Don Peyote, She Has A Name) one of Lord Shinshiro’s (Mark Dacascos, A skilled tracker he once served Shinshiro but is now a ronin. He finds out the sword is in the hands of Luna (Anna Akana, Amphibia, Big City Greens) a young American woman with a shady past and a very uncertain future. Blade of the 47 Ronin was directed by Ron Yuan (Ron Yuan, Unspoken: Diary of an Assassin, Step Up China) a veteran actor with over a hundred and seventy credits to his name ranging from Ring of Fire to Mulan and The script, which took three writers, Aimee Garcia, A.J. Mendez, and John Swetnam (Into the Storm, Breaking Through) gives him plenty of chances to stage them while giving the cast lines like “You’re just going to leave a beheaded dude on the ground?” But apart from that, it’s a fairly typical East meets West action film with some fantasy elements thrown in involving the fusing of the Blade of 47 Ronin with the Witch Blade to create a Tengu Blade. What this all ...

I know the 47 Ronin is not considered to be a good movie; however, I am a fan. While imperfect, there are certain elements of the filmmaking and storytelling that were memorable. This film lacks most, if not all of those elements, and is hardly a sequel to the Keanu Reeves 2013 film. It reminds me of a film styled more after the Wu Assassins movie, than the Reeves story of 47 Masterless Samurai that defend their honor in a battle with evil and magic. This movie has some good elements but it is corny and visually very low budget. The CGI blood is too unrealistic for my taste. The characters too silly. I do like some of the marital arts and I do like some of the stars of the film, particularly the lead female star. I tried to look at this as a stand alone to see if it might fare better, but, sadly, it did not. If you are not a martial arts movie fan I would deduct an additional star. Set in the not too distant future in Budapest, Hungary, the ancient clans of Japanese Samurai continue to operate in the shadows of society on a global scale as they did in Feudal Japan. Yurei (Dan Southworth), a descendant of the witch Mizuki who was an adversary of the 47 Ronin, sets his sights on acquiring the Witch Blade and Warrior Blade so he can form the Tengu Blade and wipe out the Samurai for good. As the Samurai lords meet to discuss the rising threat, it is learned only a descendant of the 47 Ronin may wiled the blade that will defeat ancient evil as dictated by the prophecy, but with...