Decent ingredients but, as a whole, this is lacking in choreographic flair and plot substance.
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01/22/10
Ninja Assassin (2009)
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Reviews Counted:104
Fresh:27
Rotten:77
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Overly serious and incomprehensibly edited, Ninja Assassin fails to live up to the promise of its title.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:Nov 25, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $38,105,077
Synopsis: Raizo is one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is... [More]
Reviews for Ninja Assassin
A garish and poorly filmed chop-socky frolic that makes about as much sense as an Escher painting viewed through Vaseline-smudged Ray-Bans.
01/22/10
Ninja Assassin is final proof that the once innovative Wachowski Brothers have indeed lost their creative mojo.
01/22/10
The fight scenes are uninspired and I suspect post-pubescent audiences will be very bored.
01/22/10
The fight scenes are mostly great. And Rain, so dashing in Speed Racer, is something to behold. His precisely rippled and defined body is awe-inspiring.
01/22/10
It truly wouldn’t take much – a minor re-edit, a few arch looks to camera, a wiseacre sidekick named ‘Shortballs’ – to inch this utterly mystifying throwback into spoof territory.
01/22/10
Ninja Assassin is little more than a sporadically diverting disposable movie that will probably spawn several straight-to-DVD sequels. The butcher's shop window is still a more fulfilling proposition though.
01/22/10
The bulk of the fight sequences take place at bed-time so it's difficult to see exactly what's going on - it's like putting a colony of bats in a Magimix. In the dark.
01/22/10
As it geysers forward from that claret-soaked opening scene, V For Vendetta director James McTeigue’s mega-violent B-movie packs shock and gore and, to be frank, not much else.
01/22/10
Since the fights are all digitally conjured up anyway, genuine thrills are at a minimum and the copious sprays of pixelated blood quickly pall.
01/22/10
For a film about silent assassins, it's phenomenally noisy. But if you're into swearing, decapitation and sliced-off limbs, and your brain has been reduced to mush by sitting in front of violent video games, this is the movie for you.
01/22/10
Despite an insanely visceral opening sequence in which limbs are severed amid fountains of claret, we're all too soon left with a tedious police procedural, sprinkled with the odd fight scene that confuses more than thrills.
01/22/10
When the slicing and dicing and blood-spurting become as unstoppably frenzied as they do in the course of Ninja Assassin, one's instinct is less to take fright than take 40 winks and hope to wake up when it's all over.
01/22/10
The first time we see heads roll it's entertaining. The second time it's boring. The eighth time...
01/22/10
A bit of a let down. We expected more.
01/22/10
Tedious action thriller that goes rapidly downhill after a decent opening, thanks to a nonsensical plot, dodgy acting and repetitive, over-CGI-ed fight scenes.
01/22/10
All the expensive surface distraction in the world can't make up for leaden plotting, paper-thin characters and lousy dialogue.
01/22/10
If you go to a movie called Ninja Assassin--mayhem is what you signed up for. If you expected Crouching Tiger, then please check your meds.
01/03/10
Hard-to-see fight scenes and harder-to-swallow dialogue, delivered with a straight face and capped off with some super-splattery kills.
12/17/09
revels in the unrealistic absurdity of both its plot and its action sequences, plying the audience with its splatterfest silliness but always keep a straight face just in case
12/10/09
Latest News for Ninja Assassin
January 07, 2010:
Ninja Assassin Competition
Ninja Assassin arrives in UK cinemas on January 22nd, but RT readers could see the film first and for free in London's West End. More...
November 25, 2009:
James McTeigue Talks Edgar Allan Poe, Superman, Ninja Assassin DVD, and More 
James McTeigue's "Ninja Assassin" is losing the battle with critics, but don't feel too badly for him -- as he discusses in a new interview, he has plenty of other stuff going on. More...
November 24, 2009:
Critics Consensus: Flee From Ninja Assassin
This week at the movies, we've got martial arts mayhem (Ninja Assassin, starring Rain and Naomie Harris); family-friendly hi jinks (Old Dogs, starring John Travolta and Robin... More...
November 23, 2009:
Joel Silver Talks Ninja Assassin, Sgt. Rock, Lobo, and More
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