JamesG
12-27-2013, 10:06 PM
Movie Reviews: 47 Ronin
It hasn't been a good decade-and-a-half for Keanu Reeves.
47 Ronin just had the sniff of failure about it: the Christmas day release; the numerous delays, and Keanu’s recent record for putting out stinkers made predicting the critical reaction to this martial arts-fantasy remake an easy sport.
So far, 47 Ronin has accumulated a measly 15% on Rotten Tomatoes, putting it firmly in the flop category.
And while there’s still time for that to change, the Christmas Day releases of The Wolf of Wall Street and American Hustle don’t bode well for Ronin’s box office prospects.
Claudia Puig of USA Today goes:
"While the visuals are lovely to behold, this unremarkable version of the classic 18th century Japanese legend is stiff and uninvolving."
Peter Debruge of Variety writes:
"As impressive as these visual elements prove to be, the film struggles to grab and maintain audiences' interest, whether or not they know the underlying legend by heart."
David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter goes:
"The eagerness of the major studios to cozy up to Asian markets yields awkward results in 47 Ronin, a lumpy 3D epic from Universal that fuses Japanese historical legend with generic CGI-heavy action fantasy."
-IMDb News
It hasn't been a good decade-and-a-half for Keanu Reeves.
47 Ronin just had the sniff of failure about it: the Christmas day release; the numerous delays, and Keanu’s recent record for putting out stinkers made predicting the critical reaction to this martial arts-fantasy remake an easy sport.
So far, 47 Ronin has accumulated a measly 15% on Rotten Tomatoes, putting it firmly in the flop category.
And while there’s still time for that to change, the Christmas Day releases of The Wolf of Wall Street and American Hustle don’t bode well for Ronin’s box office prospects.
Claudia Puig of USA Today goes:
"While the visuals are lovely to behold, this unremarkable version of the classic 18th century Japanese legend is stiff and uninvolving."
Peter Debruge of Variety writes:
"As impressive as these visual elements prove to be, the film struggles to grab and maintain audiences' interest, whether or not they know the underlying legend by heart."
David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter goes:
"The eagerness of the major studios to cozy up to Asian markets yields awkward results in 47 Ronin, a lumpy 3D epic from Universal that fuses Japanese historical legend with generic CGI-heavy action fantasy."
-IMDb News