One Battle After Another

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2025 - R - 9/10 - A modern take on western / samurai classics.

The first half hour of this movie is a devisive ride, at times very politically opinionated at times oddly sexual but this is just the backdrop to set things in motion, once we move out of the extended prologue into our true Act 1, things start to settle in and then we realize everything has just been a tee-up for the character drama we are about to witness. Making good on several western and samurai tropes about lost relations, returning foes, revenge, and redemption, this is a great movie and wild ride.