This premise is already such an eye roll it doesn’t help that samurai, formerly the top dogs of a caste system, are either mourned with a bellowing score or reimagined as cops with their hands tied by bureaucratic red tape. Good thing then the filmmakers hold all this with the utmost conviction. A splendid production of swordsman heroics, clever comic interludes, and sharp delivery all work. The thematic debates over is it wrong to kill have the depth of a shot glass, but they make good on their idealism by never fully committing to any one idea. The plentiful swordplay is largely coherent even with the constant cuts on action. They had the right idea to throw debris in the air every fight scene (texture good, actually), but it does feel a bit gimmicky by part 1 of 3 of the too long finale. Honestly, I could stand to watch another of these.