Ninja Assassin 2009

Do you like modern Kung Fu movies? I am sure everyone at one point in their life has liked at least 1 or 2 Kung Fu movies. Ninja Assassin takes the whole Kung Fu mentality to a different level in the sense that it is really out there. When you watch the fight scenes they are almost as if they wanted to rip the mentality off of Kill Bill. TONS of blood just as if Quentin Tarantino had directed this film. Do not get me wrong the fight scenes are pretty bad ass.

As for the rest of the movie, lets just say it was complete shit. The story revolves around this orphaned boy that was turned in to a bad ass ninja by this freakin’ crazy ninja that basically runs a death camp. They try to push a love story that is weak as hell considering that the love interest is only part of the story for a total of 5 mins. Long story short he ends up hating this death camp and turns his back on them.

Through out the movie the story flip flops between present day and the past time while he was growing up in the death camp. Which in return makes the main story weak and not there at points in the movie. It is almost as if they wanted to tell a story about a bad ass ninja but could not do it without showing you how he got bad ass. So you end up with a movie more about the past instead of what is happening currently in the movie.

As far as I no there are no recognizable actors or actresses except one guy that was in Tokyo Drift. Other than that I am pretty sure they are all Korean actors. Someone on twitter had pointed this fact out by asking me if I was a Korean girl. Which made me think that these guys might be big over there in their Starcraft films and such.

Overall the action was pretty bad ass but the movie itself lacked quite a bit. No serious story that wanted to progress without seeing some type of flashback and the love portion lacked depth. Just go see it for yourself and I am sure if you are a Korean girl you might like it a bit more than I did.

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