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By Loey Lockerby (139) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 25 Nov 2009

McTeigue obscures whatever is happening on screen, using bad lighting and rapid editing when he should be holding the image still and letting…

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By Kevin Mccarthy (392) for BDK Reviews (222) on 25 Nov 2009

Turn your brain off and turn up the blood splatter…

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By Peter Paras (106) for E! Online (838) on 25 Nov 2009

Sounds promising, yes…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 25 Nov 2009

Rain is a very talented slaughterer. He could kill you with a pair of tweezers, a hair dryer, two bananas, whatever. Be glad he's a good ninja…

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By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 25 Nov 2009

If I want to spend 90 minutes with better lighting on the ninja's body than the fighting, give me Lucinda Dickey in Ninja III: The Domination…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 25 Nov 2009

Ninja Assassin, awash in a veritable flood of patently fake CG blood - some of which ends up bespotting the camera, no less - feels like getting…

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By Adam Lippe (129) for Examiner.com (1,617) on 25 Nov 2009

All of the beheadings and flying body parts are done with CGI, distractingly so, and so quickly and darkly that there's no time to savor the…

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By Katey Rich (412) for CinemaBlend (829) on 24 Nov 2009

It's brisk and exciting and exuberantly obvious filmmaking, but it knows how to light up every bloodthirsty pleasure center in your brain,…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 24 Nov 2009

No prize, [but] at least it barrels ahead without trying to humanize its comic-book characters or deliver a ludicrous V for Vendetta-style…

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By Kathleen Murphy (78) for MSN Movies (470) on 24 Nov 2009

Heads may roll, torsos get severed and geysers of blood spurt, but no amount of CGI'd gore can save 'Assassin' from being dramatically lame,…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 24 Nov 2009

Nearly incomprehensible, the picture devolves quickly into an array of shaky cam, epilepsy-inducing editing, and blatantly fake CGI bloodshed…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for BrianOrndorf.com (1,055) on 24 Nov 2009

It's a ninja story for goodness sake, but McTeigue and his writers are on the prowl for something epic, puncturing the potential of the film…

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By Staci Layne Wilson (667) for Horror.com (214) on 24 Nov 2009

The egregious overuse of CG and the too-dark cinematography is unconscionable…

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By Geoff Berkshire (602) for Metromix.com (1,085) on 24 Nov 2009

The rotten cliches pile up faster than the bodies in this Z-movie disaster. A total dud start to finish…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 24 Nov 2009

An action film that only works as long as there are ninjas on-screen slicing and dicing each other, and not so much when anyone opens their…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 24 Nov 2009

[A] bloody concoction of slasher movie blended with martial arts and a small helping of faux Eastern philosophy…

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By Prairie Miller (985) for NewsBlaze (855) on 23 Nov 2009

Dumb and dumber German troops, homicidal hotties into doing laundry, creative enemy amputations without benefit of anesthesia, and martial…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 18 Oct 2009

Numbingly gory when it isn’t just plain numbing…

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By Ethan Alter (997) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 14 Oct 2009

Ninja isn't a great movie, but if you're in the right frame of mind, it is a bloody good time…

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