Honest opinion

Someone asked me yesterday what's my opinion of Samurai X movies
to be honest , after i've seen s like Dragon Ball Evolution and The Last Airbender i didn't even wanted to hear about this movie
then ,one night i was showering while my friend was watching the first part of the movie , when i got out i was went in the bed and i was watching the tv while she was next to me watching the movie on her laptop. i kept watching from time to time and each time i was watching i found myself starying at the movie and actualy enjoying the scenes. After she finished watching i took the laptop and started watching it myself . 
I won't exagerate on this but the movie caught my attention and it was so ing good that i watched it 5 times ~ i watched one time that time before going to sleep , the next day while eating i watched again , the 3rd time i watched it with my friend , the 4th time , that night some friends were coming to our place and like usual we were buying juice and snacks and picking a random movie from a hat with notes , ofc i wrote the name of this movie and that's what they draw so we watched again , the 5th time i found out that it was on the cinema the next day and i rly wanted to see it there , like i always say , a movie it's twice as good with a huge screen and the sound blasting in your ears :)) .
after a time i found out that the 2nd movie is coming as well and i was rly happy to find out that the 2nd movie it's actualy in two parts ~ and i heard this a lot , a movie it's good if it has only one part , when they make a 2nd movie or a third it will never be as good as the 1st one , well this is one of the movies that can shut their mouths because even tho the 1st movie was amazing , the 2nd one was a lot more better.

Now as a opinion , for a movie that's based on a anime ( Anime which i realy loved , that's the reason why i didn't wanted at first to see the movie cuz i tought it will screw it up , i'm glad i was wrong ) it follows the story pretty good , the actors are amazing. the fact that hollywood wasn't involved in this project it brings a + to the franchise , because we all know what hollywood can do to a good anime / manga ... it can it up pretty bad. Even tho the movie lenght it's pretty long (over two hourse each movie) it's worthed , you don't have time to get bored because of it and you won't even be like "i saw the anime i know what will happen here , it's boring " i saw the anime when i was a child and i rewatched it like 2 , 3 times so i knew exactly what will happen but i never got bored , it brings everytime new things for you to enjoy , the place where is filmed the landscapes ,backgrounds , tipic Japan , you'll find yourself starying at some things like fields , trees , rivers , forest , and you'll be like wow , and keep starying like that for a while till you remember that you actualy have to watch the movie :)) , actors are one on one with characters from the anime , the acting , gestures , everything it's the same , so for cast members it realy deserves a 10 . The battles are not CGI made , everything is there , no green screens , no computers no nothing , explosions , location , you name it , everything is 100% real , the coregraphi (fights and sword battles ) realy good made , the story follows the anime step by step 100% , not even the smallest thing is changed which is amazing.

If you have time try and watch the 1st movie , you'll fall in love with it and you'll want to watch the rest yourself without anyone to tell you
combinet it's like around 8 hourse lenght ( all 3 movies ) but the time is worthed you won't regret it
So my friend asked me " i heard about the movie , i didn't watched the anime , is it worthed to try and watch the movie ? " probably he asked me that because in most cases , a movie never follows the anime / manga or even books ( if it's based on it ) so in order to have a ideea what's going on in the movie you need to know few things from the anime /manga or books . But in this case , yeah it's worthed , even tho you never watched the anime you will have no problem to understand it and you'll enjoy every second. And besides , it's only my opinion but i think the movies is even more awesome if you never saw the anime , for those who saw the anime or read the manga it will be a movie where they can get to see once again in action their favorite dumb samurai , but if you didn't watched the anime , you'll see a beautiful movie about a samurai who gave up on his past where he was a manslayer and tries to leave a peaceful life and made a vow to never kill again , even tho the time doesn't allow him 

so that's all , that was my opinion and if you wanna watch it go ahead , i'll probably watch it again cuz it brought me back some memories :)))