Arrival from 2024. Review derails. 11 Rebels – 66 minutes.

A conception of plot is already becomes associative with The Dirty Dozen but in scenario of fortress protection. Chosen eleven people who were sentenced on death for crimes, which mostly don’t deserve a given punishment. But there were other times in Japan of 1868, a year of a war which will bring Tokugawa shogunate to the end.

No critical word to sky-high acting performance and directing. It was intriguing to watch on drama which happened in courts of sides, demonstration of personality characters in a film which doesn’t have a main defining personages, revealing of customs and mores of period and that no one of war sides is epitome of good forces and natural sword fighting scenes in alongside with filming which both brought to perception that a movie was made decades ago and this has a reason by that a screenplay was written in 1964 but a flick didn’t went into production because a producer disliked ending. Interesting, it was created before release of book The Dirty Dozen which was in 1965.

I couldn’t watch because fifteen men (there three samurai with condemned.) secure a wood fortress against advancing army, which have cannons and many rifles, who could tear to shreds a construction in a short time. I wasn’t pretentious before but I became to that period to the prisoners. Almost all of them are common people, not warriors. But everybody in this squad has a masterful wielding of katana which they demonstrate against dozens of attacking soldiers. Speaking on personages and that’s not only eleven condemned. A personality of a lot of them have a modern stereotype approach by having a stand out hallmark in appearance. Reasonably, I came to thinking on Seven Samurai where heroes don’t have unusual hairstyles and outfits. Nevertheless, action, which was beautiful earlier, reveals more sloppiness as somebody dies without touching of sword or unacceptable that cannon’s kernel explodes a sentry post but everybody survives there and one of criminals uses body of other one which gets slices but they are not fatal for him. It was rightful to end here.