Hirokin: The Last Samurai 2012 123movies

Watch: Hirokin 2012 123movies, Full Movie Online – On a planet where humans must scavenge the post-apocalyptic barren wasteland, Hirokin, a reluctant samurai with a dark past sets off on a mission to fulfill his destiny. Having fought to the death to save his wife and son from the planet’s evil dictator, Griffin, and his elite army of warriors, the lone samurai is left for dead in the vast desert. Armed with his samurai blade Hirokin is forced to choose between avenging the murder of his family and fighting for the freedom of his people. As he goes into war he’ll discover a shocking revelation about his family leaving revenge running through his veins..
Plot: In a planet where humans must scavenge the post-apocalyptic barren wasteland, Hirokin – a reluctant warrior with a dark past – sets off on mission to fulfill his destiny. Having fought to the death to save his wife and son from the planets evil dictator – Griffin – and his elite army of hunters, the lone warrior is left for dead in the vast desert. Armed with his samurai blade, Hirokin is forced to choose between avenging the murder of his family and fighting for the freedom his people. In a twist of fate and with a small rebellion by his side Hirokin s vision finally becomes clear.
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	3.3/10 Votes: 1,922
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Reviews:

Poor execution of a potentially excellent plot
This movie reminds me of John Carter; a very poor version of it.

LET’S TALK ABOUT THE BAD THINGS: First, I’d like to point out that the title is misleading – there are no Samurais in the film including the character “Hirokin”. Most of the swordsmanship in the film were from Kendo, not Kenjutsu. Second, all CGI were obvious and some were even incomplete. There was even a shot of a floating ship where the top was not aligned with the screen’s edge. I know the film is low-budget so I can’t fault them for that but alignment should be simple enough and free of charge. Third, there were some “comedic” scenes that were out of place and should’ve just been excluded from the film – they were probably from “The Lord of the Rings”. Fourth, the outline of the story is common and the plot is too narrow to be worthy of being a great film; they could have done so much better in ALL areas. Finally, some dialogs were amateurish and the set extras/actors were not properly directed; in some scenes, they were simply all over the place.

NOW, THE GOOD THINGS: The locations were amazing except the viceroy’s base. The main stars’ acting were excellent. I could spot that some of their dialogs were improvised from whatever was originally on the script. The framing and scene composition were all good and professional and the lighting was superb.

CONCLUSION: It’s a good watch when there’s nothing better lying around.

Hirokin
Space samurai on a distant planet says you? yes please says I. The villain played by the dastardly devilish looking Julian Sands?? oh my! this sounds great! Wes Bentley says you? hmm OK not bad, not bad, but I’ve gone slightly soft now.

Plus points…the film looks pretty sweet, its basic with obvious sets and errr…a handful of bad guys, villagers and good guys used over and over but the location work looks nice. Set on the distant desert planet of Aradius you can see straight away certain similarities to many other sci-fi/fantasy films, need I list them? So everything looks very familiar yet admittedly rather nice with use of sunsets, twilight, dusk, early morning etc…the colours and hues are gorgeous at times.

Apart from that the film is your standard by the numbers chosen one styled plot line. A lone warrior saves a small tribe of people (aliens that look exactly like humans) from a tyrant human played by Sands naturally. All the bad guys look like Imperial guards from ‘ROTJ’ and Sands looks suspiciously like Sting in ‘Dune’.

Its all very clichéd and run of the mill stuff, yet the whole point is lost on me, I have no real clue what’s in it for the evil Julian Sands to do what he does. Angus Macfadyen is the Yoda-like Master, the all powerful leader, warrior and rebel who must train the eager Hirokin, cue lots of training montages set against facial close ups and with many shadows and silhouettes.

There seems to be a lot more style over substance really, very arty and nice to look at but behind that its pretty crappy stuff really. Doesn’t really make much sense, why would a distant planet in the future (or so I assume) utilize the ancient Japanese samurai way of life, war and culture? where do they get their fuel, water and food from? etc…I could go on but I won’t.

Shame the people/aliens of this poor village seem to totally outnumber the bad guys (but why would they even stay in this village?, the area offers nothing…leeeeave it!!). Oh and this alien race are called Arids. You see what they have done there? Arids…Arabs? or maybe because the planet they live on is arid?…ah beats the sh*t outta me.

Its a nice slice of B-movie sci-fi hokum that will please some fans of the genre. Its fun harmless stuff and Bentley does look the part I admit. May I suggest a better choice, if you like sci-fi hokum then I recommend ‘Hunter Prey’ which is a much better ride.

4/10

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 45 min (105 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Adventure, Drama
Director Alejo Mo-Sun
Writer Alejo Mo-Sun
Actors Wes Bentley, Jessica Szohr, Angus Macfadyen
Country United States
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Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.78 : 1
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