I had pretty high hopes for NINJA ASSASSIN when I first saw the trailers. I saw it immediately after it came out-and although fun and entertaining in most respects-there's one big problem I had with it (more on that later)...
Raizo is a ninja-in-training who leaves his ninja-school after one of his classmates is executed for trying to escape. He becomes an assassin for higher-but when some European agents uncover the secrets of the ninja-clans...Raizo is forced into action to protect one of the agents, etc...
I had no problem with the sparse plot of this one. Going into something called NINJA ASSASSIN-all I wanted was an updated throw-back to the types of ninja films I dug as a kid. This one delivered on that front. Lots of ninja-y slashing/hacking goodness-and a high blood/gore quotient (although pretty much all of it being the poor looking CGI kind...) made it promising. My big problem with the film-is the fact that most of the fight scenes are filmed in the dark! And I mean dark enough to not be able to tell what the f!ck is going on. I don't know if this was done to hide technical flaws or whatever-but it bothered the hell out of me...enough so to knock it down a few points. A good time if you dig these sort of films, but for my money-I think the very similar but lesser-known film generically titled NINJA that just hit DVD was better overall. 6/10 for NINJA ASSASSIN
Raizo is a ninja-in-training who leaves his ninja-school after one of his classmates is executed for trying to escape. He becomes an assassin for higher-but when some European agents uncover the secrets of the ninja-clans...Raizo is forced into action to protect one of the agents, etc...
I had no problem with the sparse plot of this one. Going into something called NINJA ASSASSIN-all I wanted was an updated throw-back to the types of ninja films I dug as a kid. This one delivered on that front. Lots of ninja-y slashing/hacking goodness-and a high blood/gore quotient (although pretty much all of it being the poor looking CGI kind...) made it promising. My big problem with the film-is the fact that most of the fight scenes are filmed in the dark! And I mean dark enough to not be able to tell what the f!ck is going on. I don't know if this was done to hide technical flaws or whatever-but it bothered the hell out of me...enough so to knock it down a few points. A good time if you dig these sort of films, but for my money-I think the very similar but lesser-known film generically titled NINJA that just hit DVD was better overall. 6/10 for NINJA ASSASSIN