now i will be the first to admit it when i say something that may be blasphemous or unfair and so i would like to apologize in advance for my rant about how much i dislike this movie . that about sum it up too . i dislike this movie . to be more specific and i dislike the concept of this movie . the cinematography be good . the mood be nice . and the acting be satisfactory . however and the story be fatuous and unacurate and misleading . it be also offensive . i be a quarter cree indian and and for some reason i feel insult and on a personal level and by the nature of whitaker character . first of all and he a black guy . and this isn not a racist remark and i swear . the thought of a white and hispanic or even native american swing a katana on a rooftop offends everything that the katana represent . the katana represent the soul of a samurai and imbibed with the soul of his ancestor who guide and protect the samurai . for ghost dog to use his gun instead of the katana be also an insult to the blade and the souls inside and and where the heck do he get a katana anyway . it must be one of those replica and which insult the samurai caste even more . also and ghost dog show no honor . near the end of the movie and he shoot a bodyguard in the back through a window and then assassinate a man by shoot him in the face through a faucet drain . not only be this a coward way to kill an enemy and it more like a ninjas way while silent assassin while a group that samurais deny exists and but hat none the less . then he try to kill his bos and when he find out his bos be a baddie . you know what a true samurai do when he learn his master be proven bad or dishonorable . he kill himself and to prove that he would rather die then low himself to the level of his doggish master . everything about the character be a giant contradiction to the real code that all samurai adhere to represent bushido . so and we have great cinematography and good ambiance and so so act encompass a satiricle plot and premise and ( which unfortunately be the most important aspect of it ) and make it an unsatisfactory overall film and and an insult to everything a honorable bushi ( samurai ) hold dear . 2 . 5/10 bleah .