13 Assassins

CJ Roy

The fantastic ending sequence with Takayuki Yamada and Kiga Koyata elevates this film exponentially. Miike is the man.

Adam Suraf

No stranger to violence, Takashi Miike takes on the samurai jidai-geki with much aplomb, pitting 13 brave, skilled fighters against one smug, sadistic feudal Lord, and his 200 retainers. The ensuring bloodbath is pure adrenaline, with more than a nod or two to "Seven Samurai".

Dane

Phenomenal and even a little strange. Best action movie I've seen in years.

ArmandS

This film was excellent and kicked ass! I saw it at TIFF 2010 too. Do yourself a favour and try and see it in a good theatre on a big screen.

Kenji

The first half had some promise but the second is so overblown and absurd it could be construed as a satire on the samurai genre, traditions of loyalty and social structures- but instead of any truly cutting political edge it's quite juvenile and tiresome, with appeal mainly for fans of blood and gore.

Michael H. CLAES

1st half is epic, exotic, historic, hysteric, martial, medieval, bold, brave & a bit slow. 2nd half much very dynamic, with realistic action & great fluidity. Like at Thermopylae, a dozen samurai oppose a troop 20 times larger. === 1re moitié lente, 2éme partie dynamique avec de l'action très réaliste pleine de fluidité. Comme à Thermopyles, une poignée de samourais desperados affronte 1 troupe 20 fois supérieure

Zachary T.

Mud and blood. Miike gives Chanbara cinema the Saving Private Ryan treatment, with gloriously gritty results. Excellent sound-design and frantic editing foreground the action director we knew he had in him, and along the way he manages to make old school samurai devotion to honour and loyalty sexy again. Fabulous.

Wee Hunk

The reason so many films want to be 'The 7 Samurai' is because it's so special. This movie is certainly quite beautiful and has nice character pieces. It's a bit strange to so Miike so restrained. No magical realism here. It's probably why it did so well at the box office.