47 Ronin
Reception

47 Ronin (2013)

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6.2
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 203,999 votes
5.7/10 18,547 votes Synced 2026-08-06
6.2/10 180,754 votes Synced 2026-08-20
Audience 6.2/10 463 votes Synced 2026-07-19
Critics 2.8/10 Synced 2026-07-19
Audience 4.8/10 Synced 2026-07-18
Critics 1.6/10 Synced 2026-07-18
6.2/10 4,235 votes Synced 2026-09-04

External reviews

Bilge Ebiri · New York Magazine (Vulture) 50.00/100.00

This one never quite decides if it wants to be a big, boisterous epic or a solemn retelling, and it nearly disappears into the crack between the two.

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David Hiltbrand · Philadelphia Inquirer 50.00/100.00

An odd mix of stiff and sumptuous.

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Mike McCahill · The Guardian 40.00/100.00

Hollywood's latest play for the growing Asian market revisits the ancient Japanese legend of self-sacrifice, hoping to offset its garbled narrative and grinding humourlessness with 3D and Keanu Reeves as a samurai Jesus.

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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky · The A.V. Club 75.00/100.00

A multi-colored downer fantasy which combines bursts of imagination with a bleak worldview, resulting in something that rarely feels mainstream.

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Mark Jenkins · Washington Post 37.00/100.00

Ultimately, the movie just doesn’t justify its outrageous bid to turn a solemn tale of self-sacrifice into swaggering global-marketplace entertainment.

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Nicolas Rapold · The New York Times 40.00/100.00

47 Ronin can’t entirely paper over the void at its center, traceable partly to the shadowboxing of computer-aided filmmaking or studio tinkering.

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Sara Stewart · New York Post 50.00/100.00

There’s little sense of urgency, or — oddly, given the film’s title — of scale. You never really think that the 47 are truly outnumbered, and the large action scenes are often just incomprehensible.

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Kim Newman · Empire 60.00/100.00

Perhaps a folly and – Kikuchi aside - too deadpan to be a romp, this is still a decent, colourful samurai spectacle with a classical look (lots of symmetrical compositions) and a story which stands up under multiple retellings.

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Claudia Puig · USA Today 50.00/100.00

While the visuals are lovely to behold, this unremarkable version of the classic 18th century Japanese legend is stiff and uninvolving.

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Peter Debruge · Variety 40.00/100.00

As impressive as these visual elements prove to be, the film struggles to grab and maintain audiences’ interest, whether or not they know the underlying legend by heart.

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