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This was one of the worst sci-fi movies I have ever seen. It's really a shame because this had the potential of being a good movie but the directors, script writers, musical score director and the actors pretty much blew it. I liked the basic idea of the movie but there was just too much that didn't make sense, not to mention downright paradoxes. The overly dramatic background music seemed oddly familiar, like I had heard it in other movies before and at times got super loud, don't watch this movie with headphones if you cherish keeping your eardrums intact. The characters weren't relatable or even likable, the lead character was a crybaby wimp and the constant emotional outbursts were completely over the top, it was starting to get on my nerves. Everyone in this movie was crying at some point or another. At the end I just wanted the entire planet to blow up just to make it stop. If that is what people in the future are like I don't think humanity deserves to survive.

Sonny Chiba delivers an excellent performance in this movie that pits modern weapons against the formidable swords and strategic brilliance of the war lords from ancient Japan. I saw this movie first as a teenager in Germany and it was shown under the title Time Slip. I searched for many years until I found it again as G.I. Samurai. I purchased the DVD which has the English dubbed version along with the original Japanese with English subtitles. The Japanese version has much more impact due to it's more authentic delivery of the dialogue. Some of the emotion and mannerism is lost in the dubbed version.