Review of Ninja Assassin (2009) by Stuart K — 01 Feb 2011
After James McTeigue and The Wachowski Brothers had a big success with V for Vendetta (2006), they teamed up to make another film, this time, an original film with a screenplay by Matthew Sand and J. Michael Straczynski.
It's a very violent martial arts film, but it's still very enjoyable film, and it's good that someone is making a film like this. It's main focus is a league of ninja assassins known as the Ozunu Clan, led by Lord Ozuno (Sho Kosugi), who trains orphans severely and brutally into becoming lethal killing machines.
One such orphan is Raizo (Rain), who gets his first professional kill out in Berlin, Germany. Which gets the attention of Europol agent Mika Coretti (Naomie Harris) and her boss Ryan Maslow (Ben Miles).
However, there's a nasty piece of work within the Ozunu Clan, with Takeshi (Rick Yune), who killed his own sister Kiriko (Kylie Goldstein), when she betrayed the clan as a child when she tried to escape.
With Europol now going after Raizo, and with the Clan wanting him back, there will be blood, and alot of it. But, Mika seeks to protect Raizo. It's a very good action film, better than what alot of the critics have said, and I can see better things to come from McTeague though, and the action is very well staged, and it's good to see violent kung-fu action like this in a big Hollywood film.
It would be good to see more like this.
This review of Ninja Assassin (2009) was written by Stuart K on 01 Feb 2011.
Ninja Assassin has generally received mixed reviews.
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