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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] for strong bloody stylized violence throughout, and language.

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... 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 considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them…and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge. In Berlin, Europol agent Mika Coretti has stumbled upon a money trail linking several political murders to an underground network of untraceable assassins from the Far East. Defying the orders of her superior, Ryan Maslow, Mika digs into top secret agency files to learn the truth behind the murders. Her investigation makes her a target, and the Ozunu Clan sends a team of killers, led by the lethal Takeshi, to silence her forever. Raizo saves Mika from her attackers, but he knows that the Clan will not rest until they are both eliminated. Now, entangled in a deadly game of cat and mouse through the streets of Europe, Raizo and Mika must trust one another if they hope to survive…and finally bring down the elusive Ozunu Clan. --© Warner Bros [More]

Starring: Rain, Naomie Harris, Ben Miles, Sho Kosugi

Starring: Rain, Naomie Harris, Ben Miles, Sho Kosugi, Rick Yune

Director: James McTeigue

Director: James McTeigue
Screenwriter: Matthew Sand, J. Michael Straczynski
Producer: Joel Silver, Grant Hill, Larry Wachowski, Andy Wachowski
Studio: Warner Bros.

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Decent ingredients but, as a whole, this is lacking in choreographic flair and plot substance.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
01/22/10
Will Lawrence
Will Lawrence
Empire Magazine

A garish and poorly filmed chop-socky frolic that makes about as much sense as an Escher painting viewed through Vaseline-smudged Ray-Bans.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
01/22/10
David Jenkins
David Jenkins
Time Out

Ninja Assassin is final proof that the once innovative Wachowski Brothers have indeed lost their creative mojo.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
01/22/10
Kevin Maher
Kevin Maher
Times [UK]

The fight scenes are uninspired and I suspect post-pubescent audiences will be very bored.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
01/22/10
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

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.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment 1 Comment
01/22/10
Sukhdev Sandhu
Sukhdev Sandhu
Daily Telegraph

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.

Full Review Source: Little White Lies | comment Comment
01/22/10
Adam Lee Davies
Adam Lee Davies
Little White Lies

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.

Full Review Source: Digital Spy | comment Comment
01/22/10
Ben Rawson-Jones
Ben Rawson-Jones
Digital Spy

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.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
01/22/10
Tim Evans
Tim Evans
Sky Movies

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.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
01/22/10
Jonathan Crocker
Jonathan Crocker
Total Film

Since the fights are all digitally conjured up anyway, genuine thrills are at a minimum and the copious sprays of pixelated blood quickly pall.

Full Review Source: Radio Times | comment Comment
01/22/10
Trevor Johnston
Trevor Johnston
Radio Times

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.

Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK] | comment Comment
01/22/10
Christopher Tookey
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]

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.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
01/22/10
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]

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.

Full Review Source: Independent | comment Comment
01/22/10
Anthony Quinn
Anthony Quinn
Independent

The first time we see heads roll it's entertaining. The second time it's boring. The eighth time...

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
01/22/10
Charlotte O'Sullivan
Charlotte O'Sullivan
This is London

A bit of a let down. We expected more.

Full Review Source: FHM [UK] | comment Comment
01/22/10
Luke Edwards
Luke Edwards
FHM [UK]

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.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
01/22/10
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

All the expensive surface distraction in the world can't make up for leaden plotting, paper-thin characters and lousy dialogue.

Full Review Source: Scotsman | comment Comment
01/22/10
Mike McCahill
Mike McCahill
Scotsman

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.

Full Review Source: Needcoffee.com | comment Comment
01/03/10
Widgett Walls
Widgett Walls
Needcoffee.com

Hard-to-see fight scenes and harder-to-swallow dialogue, delivered with a straight face and capped off with some super-splattery kills.

Full Review Source: Cinematical | comment 1 Comment
12/17/09
William Goss
William Goss
Cinematical

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

Full Review Source: Q Network Film Desk | comment Comment
12/10/09
James Kendrick
James Kendrick
Q Network Film Desk
 
 
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