Directed by Peter Jackson
Starring Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen
Opened December 17, Cert 12A, 201 mins
Now war is declared and battle come down. Armies are mustered, siege weapons unveiled and war elephants saddled. The forces of good line up for a mighty ruck, the outcome of which will dictate the fate of mankind. Hold the line chaps, and watch out for those elephants.
The final part of Peter Jackson's Tolkien trilogy is already assured a record-breaking box office haul.
DIRECTED BY Edward Zwick
STARRING Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Hiroyuki Sanada, Timothy Spall
Opens January 9, Cert 15, 154 mins
Very loosely based on the development of trade links between the US and Japan in the 1870s, signalling the end of Shogunate rule and the beginning of Japan's Meiji Restoration era, The Last Samurai details the exploits of fictional cavalry hero Captain Nathan Algren (Cruise). Dispirited by the violence he's inflicted on the Indian nation, Algren accepts a lucrative assignment to train Japanese riflemen.
