47 Ronin

There's nothing pretty or exciting about this movie (inexplicably, it's in 3-D), even when all anyone's doing is fighting.

The pacing is cloddish and tone unaccountably dour.

47 Ronin is about magic, the fantastic, a witch, and CGI monsters that adorn a muddled and confused plot.

We wanted characters that don't require a narrator to explain who they are. We wanted lofty pontification about bushido

Equally clumsy and lazy -- and thoroughly, unintentionally funny -- 47 Ronin combines samurai-sword clichs with Hollywood-style CG mayhem.

A singular viewing experience: a multi-colored downer fantasy which combines bursts of imagination with a bleak worldview, resulting in something that rarely feels mainstream.

Nothing short of a disgrace.

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

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

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.