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Samurai X - The Motion Picture (Rurouni Kenshin) Actor: Samurai X Number of Items: 1 Format: Color, Animated Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Running Time: 90 minutes Studio: A.D. Vision Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2001-03-27 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 80 Average rating: 4.0 "Good but annoying" All right ,I have to tell you im obssed about Kenshin and this was a good movie In the beginning of the movie,they show a scene...all right? then during the first thirty minutes, Kenshin,Kaoru,Sanoske,yahiko talk...then they show the the scene at the beginning of the movie again. Then Kenshin and his group meet this new person with really THICK eyebrows,then they show the scene at the beginning again. They just kept on showing THE FIRST SCENE!I was like!OKAY THAT"S ENOUGH NOW!YOU DONT HAVE TO KEEP ON REPEATING IT OVER AND OVER! but toward the end it got interesting,there was action and it was really good then romance then drama. Although,this movie is more like a T.V. series compared to Reflection,Trust and Betrayal, they drew them a little different. The songs were good too,Oh and watch it first in english,cause if you watched it first in japanese,you wont be able to stand the english dubbing.That's what I always do. "Great Movie" I have seen this movie as well as the series and the OVA's about 8 times total and I still have yet to see what is wrong with this movie besides the fact that you need some knowledge of the series to understand it. The writers did a good job into not potraying the two opposing sides (kenshin and takimi) as either good or bad as we see that the main point was that although killing was necessary to create or defend a government during what is potrayed as the Dark Ages of Japan which was during the time of the Tokugawa Shogunate there is no such thing as a perfect government thereby making all that bloodshed very much pointless. The animation is a little better than the series and it is good for it's time. The music is by far the best with the exception of the intro song. The music provides a melancholy tone and makes the listener feel pitiful with the events that are going on. I do somewhat agree with some reviewers that the plot is predictiable but this movie is supposed to reinforce the fact the eventhough kenshin has seen the light and is bound by his will to keep the promise he made after killing another man slayer named Gentatsu who's death haunt's Takimi constantly and is portrayed as such in the movie by a constant flashback of that moment. For the reviewer who did not see the artistic side of the fact that the same scene was repeated over and over you need to understand that if you were to see a loved one die in front of you while you could not do anything about it you will have the same exact harsh memory in your head it's part of the human mentality. Since I am cutting it close to 1,000 words I will just say that the movie is Worth buying if you are mature enough to understand the plot. "Samurai X the motion picture" this was a great movie. but i was surprised that they changed the voices. it would have been nice if they kept the same ones. there was blood shed. but u should predict that knowing samurais. what surprised me is, that there was a rating 17+. i dont know why they did that. there is no swears in it. but it could be because of the blood shed. i dont know. i would recomend this to any kenshin, anime, or sword fan "A must have" Whether you own any Kenshin, have seen any, or are absolutely NEW to the series, this is a must-have video for any anime fan. Beautifully animated, and very rich story draws you to the edge of your seat until the climatic end. Again, simply amazing. "Can you spell, "B-A-D"?" This was an utterly ridiculous movie....First of all, the movie and the series are very different from one another. So much in fact, that the two have almost nothing in common. This story takes place a little after the second arc of the Rurouni Kenshin series. If you've seen the second arc then you know Kenshin has already conquered the manslayer within him, Saito is supposedly dead, and Sanosuke Seighara has mastered a punch called the Tio-fukenoki-wammi (however you spell that crap). In this movie, however, Kenshin allows the manslayer within to emerge, Saito reappears and Sanosuke has no knowledge of the tio-fukenoki-wammi (however you spell that crap). This storty, plainly putting it, makes no sense whatsoever. Do not get this movie. If you do, you will surely regret it.