Here's what makes me mad. We have Keanu Reeves playing a samurai swordsman. Sound good to me... '47 Ronin' could have been really cool. Instead, it was really bad. While the aesthetics and story might have seemed cool, the movie itself couldn't pull it off. Bad word of mouth ruined this movie's chances at box office success, but maybe that'll teach them to take good character design and ruin it on a bad movie. It only has fifteen percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie had a huge production cost of one hundred and seventy five million dollars. You can see every penny on the screen, but that doesn't' mean much if the movie isn't interesting. I has an estimated loss of $103-158 million dollars. That stings. The best we can hope for now is that John Wick uses a samurai sword for most of his next movie.