Purely Joyful Movie!

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Untrealistic fights scenes, "our guy" may be cut on sushi pieces but still running, fighting and obviously flying. But the force is with him. Since other ninjas are untrained and with two left hands. Too much blood and pretty asian faces, not enough story and ideas. Btw how they tried to kill the chick because she had clues about them, but they ran free infront of people at street, and the whole fking city saw them?As I said, idiotic movie.

Im not good in writing reviews but seriously this movie is in the must watch list. I enjoyed every part of it. If u r person who loves to enjoy a movie with family or friends or alone at night, this is for u.s If u need so much logical explanations then I think u won't appreciate it that much. Its a superhero kinda movie which is totally based on entertainment. I was desperately seeking its sequel after watching it but couldn't find it on internet. To the makers I just want to request that please guys give us another house-full of jaw-breaking action in Ninja assassin 2.. TYI

1. A movie called Ninja Assassin shouldn't try so hard. The first scene shows such promise that this will be a fun, bloody, cheesy movie about Ninjas who cut people to pieces. Unfortunately, it instead comes off as a Kill Bill ripoff with characters we don't care even a little bit about.2. Naomie Harris is cute but every time she's on screen the ninjas aren't. You can pretty much turn this movie on halfway through with the knowledge that she's got a hit out on her for investigating ninjas.3. There's some cool fight scenes, but a lot of the time I found the effects cheap, like darting the camera around the room with whoosh sound effects. 4. All of the characters in the movie should be wearing T-Shirts that read "childhood love interest who will die" or "former comrade who is more loyal to the cause". Its obvious what everyone's role in the movie will be.5. Some of the editing in fight scenes made me nauseous. It's like there were ten cameramen watching the fight and all of them were doing star jumps while the director cut between them every three seconds.6. There's at least two shots that make you go "Oh, this was a 3D release wasn't it". You know the ones - the ones that they'd try to impress you with in like 2002.7. The battle where the special forces arrive and gun down the ninjas en masse is unintentionally hilarious. When it happened in The Last Samurai, there was a sense of tragedy in it. Here it just comes across as funny as the stupid ninjas try to scurry over the roofs. Also, it detracts from the invincible reputation you've been trying to give them.8. The screenplay is a turd because it hilariously tries to be a film. My favourite line of the screenplay goes along the lines of: "So will you be leaving Germany soon?" "Soon death takes us all."9. Ninja abilities of super-healing are kinda brushed over and important to the story but at the same time not. Next time, go Bruce Willis-route and inflict lots of non-debilitating damage so at least we don't find ourselves asking "what happened to your intestines hanging out of your chest?"10. Still better explained than Drive though.

Ninja Assassin (2009): Dir: James McTeigue / Cast: Rain, Naomie Harris, Ben Miles, Rick Yune, Sung Kang: Here is another celebration of mindless violence done with style and with as much blood shed as possible. Title can reference either ninjas as a dominant predator or as the clan for which Rain seeks revenge upon. He is orphaned and raised as a ninja assassin until his lady love is slain for betrayal. Central plot regards his assisting European agents in bringing down those responsible for political murders. This all goes predictably in the direction of kicking the sh*t out of as many people in record time. Director James McTeigue shoots masterful martial arts action but the screenplay is made up of pieces of many other martial arts film that are about as stupid as this one. It is exploitation of violence without any shred of empathy for the characters. Rain is given good background until reduced to extremely graphic confrontations. Naomie Harris and Ben Miles play agents that get reduced to props. Rick Yune plays Rain's stereotypical teacher who meets violent ends, but not before the audience has suffered. No, Yune met his end the moment he agreed to do this tripe. If you have the desire to sit through endless amounts of extreme violence then this garbage shoot suit your taste, otherwise it should be met with several blows of a machete. Score: 3 / 10