dgillustrations A sincere, concise, energetically paced adaptation that stays faithful to the source material and simultaneously functions on its own merits as a feature film. Wields together the first manga arcs highlights and improves upon it. Top-tier fight choreography on display here. An absolute delight.

Lomedin I watched the Rurounei Keinshin OVAs back in the day and I found them excellent, both artistically and plot-wise. The seriousness of the work made it a perfect anime for mature audiences. Then, I started to watch the prequel series and I couldn't go further than the 6th episode or so. The series were a joke, a lighthearted anime for kids full of clichéd jokes and the typical ever so powerful enemies ala Naruto, Bleach or even Dragon Ball. I almost found it offensive to be a continuation of the OVAs. The story of Himura Kenshin should have been finished with those OVAs.Now, this live action movie is based on the series, so you can expect what to find. Granted, most of the silly humour is gone, although it completely misses any sense of maturity found in the OVAs, since the story is that of the series. I literally dozed off through the first hour of the film, being quite dull and unnecessarily slow and lacking action. After that first hour, the action starts appearing and things get a bit more interesting. Not as much as to really give great credit.Alright, you have good and fast swordsmanship in a couple of fights. That hardly count for over 2 hours of movie. And what's with the physics of that huge sword the brawler wields? Ridiculous.We do have a few minutes long flashback about how Kenshin got his first scar, although it gives zero real screen time to the lady who gave him the second scar, and I find that outrageous. Alas, you won't be missing anything if you decide to skip this movie. If you are a fan of the series, you might have some fun jumping around seeing your heroes in the flesh. However, I can only imagine that those who get excited by this fact would jump around with a set of keys being shaken over their heads.This movie should be 1 hour shorter. Or based on the OVAs.

Otaku_Critic Rurouni Kenshin Trilogy is the best anime based live action movie ever! All three of it are the best. I didn't really appreciated the anime series when I was a kid but then I grew up and I saw the first movie. I was like, "Wow, even live action movies based on an anime is possible!" Because of this movie, I'm now interested to watch the anime series.The story was great, the characters were also great, even the setting. This is the movie that made samurai battles more realistic. As anime fan, I also like this movie from start to finish. The sequels were also great and I might review those in the future.In conclusion, Rurouni Kenshin is a must watch especially to Samurai X fans and other anime fans out there.

Vitor Franceschini Putting it shortly, this film tells the story of the two first Manga chapters ( I suppose), but condensed to fit in properly lengthwise.I read most of the Manga as a child and loved the anime (which I discovered a bit later), and I can therefore guarantee that if you like Rurouni Kenshin you'll at least find this film not bad, or interesting, etc...The problems in my point of view can be summarised in the awful special effects whenever people are flying and stuff like that and in the excessive avoidance of graphical explicit gore (BLOOOOOOD).Some may claim the plot adjustments are also a down-point, while I think it was obviously necessary and that they've done it in a very clever way; expect to experience nostalgia boners and "dejavus" from the anime or manga