There’s so much wrong with “47 Ronin” that I’ll start with what Keanu Reeves’ samurai tale does have going for it: Kinetic action scenes with swords blazing and colorful mythical beasts. Alas, those ...

“47 Ronin,” an old Japanese fable about a group of rogue samurai, ends in a horrible bloodbath. It’s a fitting conclusion for a big-budget adaptation that has left Universal deeply in the red, having ...

One of the defining fables of pre-modern Japan, the tale of the 47 ronin has been filmed many times in that country. Yet somehow no previous director thought to include rampaging supernatural beasts, ...

Steven Weintraub launched Collider in the summer of 2005. As Editor-in-chief, he has taken the site from a small bedroom operation to having millions of readers around the world. Over the years, he ...

"Can any man not have a fire inside that no one else can see?" One of the Christmas Day releases this year is the long-awaited samurai action movie 47 Ronin, starring Keanu Reeves as a samurai who ...