I saw this couple week ago and i loved it. Its not about Tom Cruise character its about the last days of the Samurais. My fav actor in the movie was Ken Watanabe who played the samurai leader and i hopes he wins the oscar for best supporting actor that he is nominetad for. Tom Cruise was also good in this film and it was his best performance so far in a movie. In the final battle i allmost cried cause it was so sad. The Last Samurai is defenitly one my fav films of all time.