Review of 13 Assassins (2010) by Luca D — 30 Apr 2014

I have found the film just ok.

For my tastes it is really too old school.

Directing/filming fights in this way, is for me prehistory.

I do not like either films where all is special effects.

But here all is just confused and flat. So many people fighting, no breaks, no special angles, direction is really straight and old school.

There are moments that in my opinion are even ridiculous.

I cannot understand how this film got to get 7,6 rating in IMDb and 96% here!

That's just extremely exager-rated.

Anyway, the acting is ok, and in the fights (which are concentrated in the last third of the movie) there are some good moments.

But honestly I felt absolutely nothing watching this film.

No tension, no emotion, no excitement, no epic feeling.

And the charachters gave me also absolutely nothing.

The film is written and directed and shooted in a way that I felt just a distant observer of a flat scene.

I think the film is good. But for my tastes it does not have the majestic epic of the real masterpieces of Japanese classic Cinema, nor the originality and elegance of some chinese works (from Crouching Tiger on).