Jarhead 2: Field of Fire vs The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 6.2/10 for Jarhead 2: Field of Fire). Jarhead 2: Field of Fire is the shorter watch at 1h 43m compared with 2h 34m. The Last Samurai is the older of the two (2003 against 2014). Both are action, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Jarhead 2: Field of Fire posterJarhead 2: Field of Fire2014 VS The Last Samurai posterThe Last Samurai2003
Jarhead 2: Field of FireThe Last Samurai
Audience score★ 6.2/10★ 7.6/10
Year20142003
Length1h 43m2h 34m
GenresAction, WarAction, Drama, War
Country–United States of America
DirectorDon Michael PaulEdward Zwick
Main castCole Hauser, Danielle Savre, Esai Morales, Stephen Lang, Jason WongTony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada, Timothy Spall, Tom Cruise, William Atherton

Synopsis

Jarhead 2: Field of Fire

Battle-scarred and disillusioned by the war, Corporal Chris Merrimette is put in charge of a unit whose next mission is to resupply a remote outpost on the edge of Taliban-controlled territory. While driving through the hostile Helmand province, a Navy SEAL flags down their convoy and enlists the unit on an operation of international importance: they must help an Afghan woman famous for her defiance of the Taliban escape the country. Without…

The Last Samurai

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

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