While I as a Singaporean Chinese love action films, and grew up with them, I cannot reconcile with the fact that the protagonist went to the base of his enemies head-on and alone, using only his Katana to fight 500 swordsmen, many coupled with fire-power.
I can understand when Bruce Lee went over to the Japanese dojo and whacked the living lights out of 20 karate men, due to the latter being a local bullies there and indirectly caused a few Chinese to fatality. But this show is of a totally different level - the main villain Erishi led his contingent to practically leveled the whole town to ground, killing hundreds of innocent people and even Himura's friends and family.
No one in the right mind and with some IQ will walk through the main door armed with only one piece of Katana. I can certainly understand Why the plot goes this way - if not there will not be a 'movie' to begin with, but the story or plot can be tweaked to strengthen the 'logic' behind such a move, and not result in the viewer being mind-boggled and confused.
I can understand when Bruce Lee went over to the Japanese dojo and whacked the living lights out of 20 karate men, due to the latter being a local bullies there and indirectly caused a few Chinese to fatality. But this show is of a totally different level - the main villain Erishi led his contingent to practically leveled the whole town to ground, killing hundreds of innocent people and even Himura's friends and family.
No one in the right mind and with some IQ will walk through the main door armed with only one piece of Katana. I can certainly understand Why the plot goes this way - if not there will not be a 'movie' to begin with, but the story or plot can be tweaked to strengthen the 'logic' behind such a move, and not result in the viewer being mind-boggled and confused.