Ninja's are cool. Ever since I was a kid I am fascinated by Ninja's. Silent, quick and extremely deadly. However, there aren't many great Ninja flicks nowadays, all we have are classics. Back in the old days I used to rent a lot of dual cases VHS with eastern ninja movies. Not good but awe-some to see the ninja's wielding their Katana's. Then we have some Western Ninja movies like American Ninja, not great but we deal with it because that's all we have. The waiting is over, finally a Ninja movie done the way it should. Ninja's are nearly invisible, they can smell you from a dozen of miles and can hear one's heartbeat loud and clear. I want to be a Ninja ! Ninja Assassin has a really cliché hero story. An orphan raised by a clan of ninja's called the Ozunu has learned and mastered the Ninja way. One day his girlfriend who'm he has seen growing up within the clan decides to run, but get's caught and killed for breaking the clan rules thus making our hero Raizo ( Rain ) very angry. He turns his back on the clan and lives in the shadows to get revenge. In the modern world an Europol agent called Mika ( Naomie Harris ) finds out about this ancient Ninja clan and their recent killing spree's. At first no one believes her but that will soon change as she will find herself chased down by the Ozunu clan for sticking her nose in their business. And as you can guess our hero Raizo is there to help our damsel in distress. He sticks with her because she is his connection to the Ninja Clan he seeks for revenge.
Not much of a story and to be honest the dialog in this movie is pretty sh!tty too, as well as the acting that comes with it. But who cares, the reason to check this one out is for the action. I gotta hand it to them, they do a pretty good job. I don't know if you people ever played a game called Ninja Gaiden but this movie is basically just that. Limbs get cut off with ease with piles of blood, dozens of shurikens flying into people's bodies, Katana's, Ninja Outfits and great martial arts, that's what we want now don't we ! Ninja action at it's best, who cares if the story is boring, who cares if they act like they are in the Bold and the Beautiful. We want sword fights, cut off limbs, decapitations, shurikens yes we want Ninja's and that is exactly what this movie does, so hurray to that.
Not much of a story and to be honest the dialog in this movie is pretty sh!tty too, as well as the acting that comes with it. But who cares, the reason to check this one out is for the action. I gotta hand it to them, they do a pretty good job. I don't know if you people ever played a game called Ninja Gaiden but this movie is basically just that. Limbs get cut off with ease with piles of blood, dozens of shurikens flying into people's bodies, Katana's, Ninja Outfits and great martial arts, that's what we want now don't we ! Ninja action at it's best, who cares if the story is boring, who cares if they act like they are in the Bold and the Beautiful. We want sword fights, cut off limbs, decapitations, shurikens yes we want Ninja's and that is exactly what this movie does, so hurray to that.