Rurouni
Kenshin: The Legend Ends **
Dir: Keishi Ohtomo. With: Tatsuya Fujiwara,
Takeru Sato, Emi Takei, Yu Aoi. 134 mins. Cert: 15
Like Peter Jackson’s
hobbling Hobbitry, this live-action samurai panto could conceivably have been
resolved during its second instalment, which boasted a pretty piffling ratio ofplot-to-production design. Part Three has the ingredients of a rousing
third-act fightback, as our never-more-androgynous hero is retrained to
overcome a nemesis now hiding out in a battleship. Again, though, its momentum
is stalled by byzantine sidebars involving shrieking, still-superfluous
supporting characters. Handsome choreography, but it’s mostly been a
demonstration of the modern movie business’s absurd gigantism: seven hours of
set-trashing for a story that needed two tops. They’ll likely reboot it in a
decade, too.
Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends opens in selected cinemas from today.
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