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Title: Highly Overrated
Review: Together with the M.Scorcese's "The Raging Bull" this is one of the most overrated movies in the cinema history.I watched it twice trying to get it's "greatness" and "depth",but apart from a poor and flat story about a group of stinking villagers running with wooden spears from one place to another and screaming at each other I couldn't find anything that touched my heart or soul, or gave me food for thought.Three hours wasted for a primitive action schlock.Don't get me wrong! I adore A.Kurosawa's real,timeless masterpieces,but not his "samurai films" (Seven Samurai,Yojimbo,Sanjuro and Hidden Fortress),which to my mind are his weakest and the least interesting.They BY NO MEANS are on the same league with such TRUE GEMS of Kurosawa like "Rashomon","High And Low","Ikiru","Redbeard","Bad Sleep Well","Throne Of Blood","Dersu Uzala","Ran".Go for these eight films - they are real cinematic treasure!
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