The Warrior's Way Reviews
February 28, 2020
The film moves languorously, sometimes too slowly, and manages to draw you with its eclectic appeal.
May 8, 2019
I will give it credit for exceeding expectations -- a mildly entertaining diversion that I could see myself revisiting if nothing else was on at 3 a.m. Fans of action films should be satisfied.
December 9, 2010
Succeeds in cutting out a distinct visual flourish amid a bland cinematic landscape.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4.0
December 7, 2010
[The] action sequences are clear and snappy, with the ante forever being upped for the unbelievably explosive climax.
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| Original Score: 3/5
December 6, 2010
To damn his agreeable campfest with faint praise, The Warrior's Way is easily the best circus-themed, martial-arts-heavy action-comedy oater of the year.
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| Original Score: B-
December 6, 2010
My three-word synopsis is my three-word review...cowboys and ninjas.
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| Original Score: 3/5
December 5, 2010
"That was completely retarded, and I would absolutely watch it again." Indeed.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
December 3, 2010
If you can't figure out why a clown shooting a ninja is forty kinds of awesome, it's not going to waste time explaining it to you.
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| Original Score: B
December 3, 2010
Set in a fantastical ghost town with a resident circus troupe and filmed on studio sets, it looks like a Sergio Leone epic as staged by Fellini, or by Lars von Trier.
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| Original Score: 3/5
December 3, 2010
The Warrior's Way is a visually inspired multi-genre amalgamation, a borderline-surreal folly that suggests a martial-arts action-adventure co-directed by Sergio Leone and Federico Fellini.
December 3, 2010
Lee revels in the poetry of carnage -- movie carnage -- and despite 360 splatter shots and bouquets of severed heads somehow makes it all seem more kiss-kiss, bang-bang than damaged, or damaging.
Original Score: 7.5/10
December 3, 2010
Aided by a wonderfully ersatz spaghetti western score, Lee's cranked-to-11 curio is a shameless, sharply written (secondary villain Danny Huston gets an exit line for the ages), thankfully unironic chunk of fun.
December 3, 2010
If Sergio Leone ever made an Asian-western video game, this would be it. And I say that with a certain sense of joy.
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| Original Score: 5/10