the audience applauded

good back-story, and good acting

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Take out all the scenes with blood and grunting and you will probably get about twenty minutes of pointless dialogue. In other words, if your into over the top CGI cartoonish blood spraying everywhere with hardly no plot or storyline you will enjoy this senseless violent circus of blood.

No spoilers in this review.This is a must see! If you've seen Naked Weapon, as this reminds me very much of a similar story. But this one is original just like Naked Weapon is, and I highly recommend it for all Asian martial art fans.It has the quality of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the continuation called House of Flying Daggers, and it reminds of the old school video game for Super Nintendo called Mortal Combat (fighting game) if you're also from the 80's! Enjoy this! As much as I did, I hope!See this if you liked movies like: The Raid, Hidden Dragon (Jet li), Kill Bill Volume 1 & 2, and any other movies based around martial arts combat with blades. This movie is even up to par to the Blade trilogy if you liked the Ju jitsu that Wesley Snipes used in his films.

When this movie came out I was excited and went to see in the cinema, as I missed the days of Ninja movies. And my expectations were met! The violence was a bit too bloody for my taste, but still manageable and the fight scenes were pretty good, and much better than many of the lousy ninja movies made in the 1980's.It is also very modern, set out in a city, and it shows some parts of the Ninja training which is pretty good. As for the plot, don't expect much originality, but I enjoyed the thriller and crime investigation aspects. In my opinion, this can be easily classed as one of the best Ninja movies made, and I wish there was a sequel.

Ninja Assassin (2009): Dir: James McTeigue / Cast: Rain, Naomie Harris, Ben Miles, Rick Yune, Sung Kang: Here is another celebration of mindless violence done with style and with as much blood shed as possible. Title can reference either ninjas as a dominant predator or as the clan for which Rain seeks revenge upon. He is orphaned and raised as a ninja assassin until his lady love is slain for betrayal. Central plot regards his assisting European agents in bringing down those responsible for political murders. This all goes predictably in the direction of kicking the sh*t out of as many people in record time. Director James McTeigue shoots masterful martial arts action but the screenplay is made up of pieces of many other martial arts film that are about as stupid as this one. It is exploitation of violence without any shred of empathy for the characters. Rain is given good background until reduced to extremely graphic confrontations. Naomie Harris and Ben Miles play agents that get reduced to props. Rick Yune plays Rain's stereotypical teacher who meets violent ends, but not before the audience has suffered. No, Yune met his end the moment he agreed to do this tripe. If you have the desire to sit through endless amounts of extreme violence then this garbage shoot suit your taste, otherwise it should be met with several blows of a machete. Score: 3 / 10