Journey's End vs The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai has the higher audience score (7.6/10 against 6.4/10 for Journey's End). Journey's End is the shorter watch at 1h 48m compared with 2h 34m. The Last Samurai is the older of the two (2003 against 2017). Both are action, drama, war movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Journey's End posterJourney's End2017 VS The Last Samurai posterThe Last Samurai2003
Journey's EndThe Last Samurai
Audience score★ 6.4/10★ 7.6/10
Year20172003
Length1h 48m2h 34m
GenresAction, Drama, WarAction, Drama, War
Country–United States of America
DirectorSaul DibbEdward Zwick
Main castStephen Graham, Paul Bettany, Asa Butterfield, Theo Barklem-Biggs, Toby JonesTony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada, Timothy Spall, Tom Cruise, William Atherton

Synopsis

Journey's End

Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.

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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