This film had a generous budget and an outstanding production team. Even the director is a specialist in action movies. What happened? The story is untenable: we have a teacher who chooses two potential successors: one of them is hysterical, the other is a Westerner who inexplicably ended up there, never has to shave, and seems to have enough time to show off his amazing hair to everything. Moment. The motivations of the characters are idiotic. One wants to be a leader despite his obvious emotional lack of control, the other misses her dead parents and has a rare love story with a Japanese woman who, having spent years training ninjutsu, is unable to hold a fight when necessary. Eventually the evil disciple becomes a hitman and inexplicably fights for relics that will fill his emotional void. Everything that happens is unsustainable, the fights are insane, the use of sophisticated weaponry is inconceivable and within minutes you want all the characters to die, including Adkins, in the worst possible way. When I saw her, I remembered Sho Kosugi and how he made his films credible. It is the bad thing about this movie, everything is so incredible that there is no way to swallow the story without vomiting.