Review of Blind Fury (1989) by Leonardo - Malacay - S — 07 Mar 2009
No ninjas were harmed or killed in the making of BLIND FURY...
In fact, despite the misleading packaging and quite disappointingly - - There weren't actually ANY ninjas in this film at all!
I've managed to pinpoint the exact moment that Rutger Hauer's promising career took it's downturn, and that moment is BLIND FURY. After such great performances in films like Ladyhawke... Blade Runner... The Hitcher... and Wanted: Dead or Alive... Hauer shows up in this clunker and the downward spiral that is his career, begins.
"Zatoichi the blind swordsman" - - is a national treasure in Japan. A character that has garnered such levels of popularity, that dozens of films and TV programs have been made about him. The Japanese understand a character like Zatoichi... and there's an innate "coolness" when they make a Zatoichi film because they do it so well.
Blind Fury is an American attempt at a Zatoichi film and it lacks all of the subtle humour, grace, cinematography and eye-popping aesthetics that are required for this sort of film to work well.
It's a goofy flick with very little to recommend....(though it was nice to see Sho Koshogi make an appearance towards the end of the flick). Sho Koshogi could have stuck around a bit longer, but I gotta say, by the time he made his appearance, I was just glad that Blind Fury was giving me something genuine and interesting to look at.
This review of Blind Fury (1989) was written by Leonardo - Malacay - S on 07 Mar 2009.
Blind Fury has generally received mixed reviews.
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