Let's be realistic.

Absolutely amazing

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

The Seven Samurai, the first modern day action epic, is generally considered one of the greatest films ever made. This is true. This is the Citizen Kane of Samurai films. There is no Samurai film that comes close, and both American homages to it, The Magnificent Seven, are pale imitations. The phrase is often imitated, never duplicated and it has never been truer. From direction. to story to cast - few films can equal this. Worth seeing again and again. Just brilliant.

Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" is rightly considered one of the greatest films in the history of cinema. Apart from the fact that it is technically perfect, this is one of the most influential films of all time. From today's perspective, the film tells the story that has been seen many times, but this is because the Kurosawa's version has left such a strong impression that, in the following decades, many filmmakers were inspired by it. The most famous remake is the western "The Magnificent seven" (1960), which tells the same story, and even copies some scenes, only places them in Wild West and replaces the samurai with the gunslingers. Each frame of this film is a perfect black and white photography, the story is well developed, the characterization is convincing, and the performance is excellent (even to those like me who hate over-acting and exaggerated drama typical for Japanese). I could point to a couple of weaker points in the story and acting, but that would be only a subjective impression that arose from the personal taste and cultural gap between the East and the West. But objectively, this film hardly has any faults.10/10

Movie Review: "Seven Samurai" (1954)Coming out of a deeply-depressive picture "Ikiru" (1952), leading actor Takashi Shimura (1905-1982) and director Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) conceive the highest production budget from Toho Studio Company, Japan at that time to not only produce a masterful entertaining movie, even more in its 160-Minute International Editorial by the contractual final-cut-approved director for nevertheless timid first screenings at Venice Film Festival in its 15th edition between August 22nd to September 7th 1954."Seven Samurai" becomes one of the rare movies that must go with any audience of any age, any sex or a generation-gap-defying motion picture achievement in terms of its flawless use of cinematography as visual story-telling tool with pin-pointing and over-laying defiance sound design in stellar atmospheric black and white image system in the ocassional use of slow-motion shot, especially in samurai sword duels, inevitable tense in suspense, when only an Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) picture is able to match out the brilliance in visual composition of this arguably most accomplished picture of Akria Kurosawa's peaking career as director at age 43.When the motion pictures only misstep becomes to generate far too many versions of "Seven Samurai", on a competitive market of taking time to watch, with ranging running times from 150 up to 207 Minutes, which is believed to be the initial director's cut to encounter on. Furthermore production design are as researched as can, a pure bliss to witness on calm to receive on holiday afternoon watch toward dinner time, when supporting actor Toshiro Mifune (1920-1997) steals every scene he encounters as character of Kikuchiyo; futhermore put in proporties as additionally-dressed and ultra-long samurai-sword armed imposter of a samurai warrior, who never served a master in his life to nevertheless be the one, who beats the decisive battles with skill and wisdom to win spiritually as physically for samurai-hiring rural villagers against fierce imperalistic anarchy-indulging bandits in times of civil war after a collapsing Feudal system raging through Japanese 16th century. © 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

It's difficult to describe Seven Samurai because firstly it's a movie that is best experienced knowing nothing about it. Secondly, because it's so packed with things to talk about it's difficult to know where to start.The slow beginning and ridiculously long run time might turn some viewers off, but with enough patience you'll be rewarded with a rich, nuanced experience that few other movies can match. The film uses this slow, deliberate pace to flesh out the characters and explore the world in which they live until you're completely sucked in and invested.The camera work is fantastic, with every single shot being perfectly blocked, composed and lit. The costume and set design are all so perfect that you think you've just stepped into feudal Japan. The acting from the entire cast is amazing and the action scenes are superbly epic.The characters are all well fleshed out (some more than others) and you root for all of them throughout the film. The themes are heavy and dramatic: honor, romance, the selfishness of human nature, deconstruction of the samurai myth. The movie might also have the greatest climax of any film in history, perfectly paying off the last three and a half hours you just spent sitting in your chair.Seven Samurai is a masterpiece of filmmaking and is everything a movie should be: simple but complex. Entertaining yet not shallow. Funny and dramatic. Action-packed, yet slow. It's one for the ages that should've be missed.