SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Gripping story with well-crafted characters

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

In general I'd say don't spend money on this film. Don't get it off Netflix or at the video store. However if it's on TV (I believe Spiketv and Showtime have shown it on occasion) and you've got nothing to do for a while, it isn't that horrible of a waste. Just don't watch it expecting anything great, keep your expectations low and you won't berate yourself for watching.Most of my opinions of the film have already been voiced in previous comments, but I'll review the ones I find most appropriate.In general the action stunts are decent and watchable. I've seen better but I've also seen worse. The story is pretty weak and just serves as a bare bones pretext for the fighting. At the end there is a 3d fight simulation with the "boss" of the movie, eh the graphics were crap. I realize that film is a few years old but I think they could have been a lot better looking.As for the English dubbing, yes it's poorly done but in my eyes it adds another level of comedy to the film. Several other posters have commented that the side character Nadir (sp?) is really annoying, well yes he can be but I think it's fairly obvious that the character was meant to be annoying. And no he is nowhere near as bad as Jar Jar Binks. As for whether Nadir succeeds at comedy is up to the individual, in my opinion the crappy dub voice added to his comedic appeal.Now I can't believe no one has commented on the lines and dubbed voice of the 2 younger kids (I believe the mains characters younger brother and friend?) You'll hear such gems as "Ah yeah! Your ass is grass man" coming from a squeaky 10 year old.So again, don't pay money for it and don't come expecting anything great. Pretty crappy movie that should no way influence the opinion that audiences have of European martial arts movies.

i can not even describe the awesomeness of this movie...it was surely overwhelming. if your life is lacking the necessary awesomeness i recommend u watch this. just blabbing because IMDb hates shorts comments but just watch the awesomeness and living will be so much h better for you. great such great i expect this movie to win many Oscars and whatever other awards that they give out. this is line number 7 of awesomeness supposedly i need three more lines of talking about awesomeness but words cant even describe what this movie does to your daily intake of awesomeness. just watch and see you will be a changed human being

who wouldn't love a French martial arts movie? The dubbing alone was the epitome of spoof, especially the hapless sidekick, a Tunisian-looking dude who was voiced by some sort of terrible Eddie Murphy/Martin Lawrence impersonator. Not much of the movie made any sense (in a good way), but quite frankly, whatever. It was what it was, and the fight scenes, I thought, were very good- especially the fight in the gym with the 7 or 8 identically dressed Japanese goons against the 20 or so sparrers- multiple styles, 1 on 1, 3 on 1, every other combination. Plenty of mean-looking cold-eyed warrior action, open-hand, sword v. baton, all kinds of good stuff. Go at it with open eyes and enjoy on every level.

WOW - when i saw this movie i´ve thought "It´s a long time ago i saw such a great enjoyable fun and popcorn-movie like Samouraís!". Ok - the story is very stupid and it takes a time before i could laugh about Nadir "The Bone-Body" :o) What i like is the very cool style, the very good locations, the genius camera-work and how it uses the Cinescope-format 2,35:1 !!! Also the hard fights with weapons you see never in actual productions (Tonfa, Sing-Gabel, Shuriken, etc.). The production of the movie is very high. Locations, costumes, etc. are very nice and epic. There is so much atmosphere in this movie!!! And the FX are very fine! The fights in the Toilet-Room of the Airport, at the Training-Center (20 People fighting!!!), at the stairway, etc. - all are impressive, hard and awesome choreographed by Philp Kwok who do the fight-scenes in "Les Pacte des Lopes" with Marc Dacascos and very much more Hollywood-Blockbuster - and that´s fact!!! If you like epic style pictures - than give him a chance! If you like hard and realistic Fights without CGI and wire-fu - than give him a chance! If you like cool looking Japanese in cool suites, with sunglasses, big weapons and Swords - than give him a chance! If you are open minded for humor of other countries - than give him a chance! And at the end - if you like high quality DVD-transfers - than you HAVE to take this movie on DVD, because the german DVD has a genius, clearly picture-transfer and an impressive DD5.1-Sound which will let your Rears rock!!!