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04/29/09
Azumi (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 28
Fresh: 12
Rotten:16
Average Rating: 5.2/10
Consensus: This adaptation of the popular manga series offers exquisitely choreographed violence -- and little else.
Theatrical Release:Jul 21, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: A young orphan is raised to be a deadly assassin in AZUMI. With Japan at war the only hope is for the murder of the deadly warlords who wreak havoc on the country, leading to some fearsome battle... [More]
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10/18/08
What will slay you first--the often histrionic acting or the drag-out boredom of that hulking, two-hour-plus thing in the distance that faintly resembles a plot?
09/11/07
The raw visceral pleasures are enough to carry the film past some clunky melodrama that bloats the film to a two-hour-plus run time.
08/26/07
The tone is bleak and the comic-book violence relentless, but the wirework and Yuta Morokaji's stunt choreography are impressive.
04/18/07
Top CriticNothing can lift the glaze from your eyes through the endlessly recurring hokey fight scenes of the movie's interminable 128-minute running time.
03/01/07
Azumi may be an outstanding assassin, but the makers of this movie killed any chances of her being the next great action hero.
10/01/06
It's a zippy time-passer.
09/07/06
Top CriticRyuhei Kitamura is 37, but he makes films like a 15-year-old fanboy. That is, he has no sense of story, his visual style is basically point-and-shoot, the boys are cool and rebellious and the girls are cute.
07/28/06
Top CriticUeto -- who was only a teenager when the film was made -- is no great actress, but her impressive agility and magnetic presence provide director Ryuhei Kitamura a perfect centerpiece around which to orchestrate his blistering ballet of blood.
07/28/06
Azumi is slick, violently beautiful and appeals directly to the lower sensations. But just because it thrills doesn't necessarily mean it's artless.
07/28/06
An uneven effort overall that when it is working has a strange, engaging energy that is often overturned by an uncertain staidness.
07/27/06
Top CriticIt's a B-movie through and through and its indulgences come from loving the genre too much, not bracketing it with postmodern quotation marks.
07/27/06
Failing in its attempts at Zhang Yimou–like poetry, Azumi calls to mind a long, blood-splattered director’s cut of a Power Rangers episode.
07/27/06
...teen idol Ueto...is not believable as a warrior for even a second.
07/27/06
Though it contains some superbly staged and highly lavish action sequences...[the film] lacks the tautness of its heroine.
07/25/06
Top CriticThis is fun because it's soo damn stupid.
07/21/06
Overdone and overlong, but its lunatic flavor -- check out Joe Odagiri's Tiny Tim as ninja sadist -- saves the day.
07/21/06
Top CriticAzumi (based on a 25-part manga series) has eye-popping battle sequences, but the story is superficial at best.
07/21/06
Top CriticPlot and character development are quickly sacrificed to over-the-top action, but with a miniskirted menace in the lead, it's safe to say that fans, at least, will love it.
07/21/06
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