Nothing short of a disgrace.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 19, 2022

Heavy on CGI, light on entertainment, 47 Ronin is a dreary and deathly dull tale that you will endure, rather than enjoy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 5, 2021

Opening on Christmas Day, 47 Ronin obviously is an afterthought for Universal Pictures.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 7, 2020

The whole debacle cost more than 200 million bucks to make, and has only a handful of diverting visual effects to show for it. Avoid, dude.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 15, 2020

If 47 RONIN did anything, it proved to me that Keanu Reeves could (and should) have starred in a live action version of AKIRA.

| Sep 20, 2019

Feels like it was yanked out of some bargain bin Brothers Grimm fairy tale.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 29, 2019

At its best, 47 Ronin is an elegant paean to a philosophy that transcends death and that visually resembles live-action flashes of a Hayao Miyazaki fantasy. At its worst, it sounds wooden and silly. The overall effect is somewhere in the middle.

| Original Score: B | Jan 17, 2019

Rinsch does try to cough up 47 Ronin as a sophisticated and contemplative spectacle but the film has all the exciting bite of a rusty samurai sword and the convincing edginess of Reeves's decorative hairpiece.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 11, 2018

47 Ronin fails to be a good movie out of a fascinating pitch. Even with intensely beautiful distractions, they are not effective enough to disguise the gigantic lumps.

| Oct 10, 2018

Anyone who might want characters and not cliches, compelling dialogue and an intriguing scenario, look elsewhere.

| Original Score: C- | Nov 29, 2017

Magical lands and sorcery add to the movie's mythic structure. While Mika is suitably simpering, the witch is delightfully evil and is a pleasure to watch. As for Reeves, his lines are minimal, but his swordplay does all the talking.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 18, 2017

47 Ronin's biggest shortcoming lies in never relinquishing its real world footing so the visual artistry can intrigue on its own merits.

| Original Score: C | Jun 21, 2016

There's no such thing as bad Jack (Nicholson). There's only vintage and current Jack. However, while there is good Keanu, and even great Keanu, there is also... less good Keanu.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 18, 2016

47 Ronin is a film for nobody, made by committee. Like its samurai, it is masterless.

| Nov 9, 2015

Samurai movies may not be everyone's favorite yuletide entertainment, but there's something to be said for Ronin 47.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2015

47 Ronin looks from the outset like a picture that went off without a hitch.

| Original Score: 6.0/10 | Aug 11, 2014

This $175million Hollywood reworking of Japan's most celebrated tale of honour and revenge is a mostly plodding affair, notwithstanding some fantastical sword-and-sorcery flourishes.

| Jun 15, 2014

the movie is its own worst enemy

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 16, 2014

At the helm, Rinsch turns in a movie that's deadly serious yet entirely lifeless.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 4, 2014

A handsome movie in many ways, but it feels like an unpolished first draft, one that can't quite decide how fantastical it wants to be.

| Apr 1, 2014