Early Review: Ninja Assassin (2009)

"I just saw the test screening of this movie with high hopes, mainly because of the badass picture of Rain covered in blood. I couldn't help but think that this was going to be good, a little action packed, with some ninjas.

My brain exploded within the first 5 minutes of the movie starting, I have never been in a theatre full of screaming people clapping, yelling, and laughing all at the same time.
It was AMAZING. Let me explain, the movie begins with a group asian gangsters in a room relaxing. The leader of the gang is getting a tattoo of a Buddha/Dragon thing on his back by this older man (The same actor from the matrix movies who played the key-maker).

After a little dialogue between the leader and the tattoo artist, a man walks up and hands the leader an envelope. They both looked confused because it is filled with black sand, so they start laughing about it saying "What the fuck is this?". Meanwhile the tattoo artist is terrified, and starts explaining what happen to the last people he saw get the envelope. He mostly is talking about how a demon will come and kill them, and he comes from hell. That's when they start laughing even more and one the gangsters gets his head sliced in half and part of his brain is on the floor...

That's when the theatre when nuts. Bodies starting getting chopped up, sliced and diced and mutilated. If your a fan of Metal Gear Solid, this movie will remind you of Grey Fox or "The Ninja", when he brutally massacres those men in the hallway. The only difference is that this movie provides alot of it, and that's a good thing! One minute he is fighting someone, and the next they are stuffed in a laundry machine chopped up into little pieces, it's crazy.

The most memorable parts I would say other then the intro, was the fight against the ninja's on the rooftop in the rain and the ending when he finally gets his revenge. Don't get mad at me if you think I'm giving you too much information because it's not, you have to see this movie to believe it. You have to experience this movie with an entire crowd of people, it's a fun entertaining movie that will make you smile and your girlfriend cry. I love it.

That's not to say it's all amazing, the story and acting are just filler for them to get to the action scenes. Normally I would hate a movie that does that, but these are GREAT action scenes that when they come out on DVD I will probably watch with my surround sound turned up over and over again. I wish they would have focused the story on just the revenge part of the story and maybe get better dialogue for the "Love Interest" scenes. There is a scene that is so bad, and cheesy that if it weren't for the amazing effects and ninjas I would give this movie a zero. Seriously, he listens to her heart. That's all I'm going to say, I don't know if anyone else hated that scene, but I really did.
So basically this movie rocks, it's got everything from ninjas crawling on walls like insects to God of War style fight sequences where he just obliterates ninjas with his chain sword. It's like the feeling you get when your first watched the Lobby scene from Matrix, except you'll feel that alot in this movie. Just set aside your brain at the door and enjoy a ninja flick... a badass ninja flick.

4/5

Mr. Ironmonkey

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