I love this movie so much

Very disappointing...

Powerful

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

If you've seen "High Plains Drifter", you know the storyline: man with no name (or in this case one name) rides into a Old West town (this one has a bizarre circus theme complete with a Ferris Wheel), is taken in by the locals, a bad gang and the Warrior's old allies from his homeland invade, the Warrior helps to save the town, but not much of it is left in the end. There's not much else to the storyline, the Warrior has a love interest and a child that he refused to kill in his previous life, but the rest is pretty standard fare.What pulls "The Warrior's Way" out of a 4 or 5 star rating is the visual effects, and man they are something to behold. Combine bullet time from "The Matix", the blood spatter and slow motion effects from "300", sword action from the "Seven Samurai", and toss in the gun battles from any Sergio Leone western, and you have "The Warrior's Way".This film has some awesome effects from an old gunslinger pegging falling dynamite sticks with a buffalo gun from the top of a ferris wheel, The Warrior taking out multiple bad guys in "300" slo-mo, to the Sad Flutes dropping into the town one by one on the rooftops like falling dominoes but in reverse, it's all very cool.The sword fighting is completely over the top but very, very entertaining. I like the fact that The Warrior didn't have much to say, much like Clint in "High Plains Drifter". The rest of the cast does a good job, I didn't buy Kate Bosworth's old west accent, but that's just nitpicking.All in all this is well worth a couple hours of your time to watch.

I haven't heard anything about this movie prior to watching it. I saw Mr. Rush on the casting list and decided that I wanted to see it. I found this movie to be very interesting and different.I am a sucker for beautiful visual effects, therefore I found this movie to be worthy of a high rating. Everything seemed very different because of the combination of various genres (western, action, martial arts, comedy & romance). I have also got a new found respect for Kate Bosworth because she pulled the part of so beautifully. This is a major accomplishment for director Sngmoo Lee, as this is his first movie ever.But my all time favorite thing about this movie was the adorable little baby. I loved her cute facial expressions.

Compared to my recent watch (at theaters) "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows", or "Cowboys & Aliens", which martial arts are boring, but I was satisfied with this film, with my view, as a female Kung-Fu lover. (I have watched many Hong Kong movies)The first swordplay is stylish, in front of the black-and-white ink paintings like an ancient Asian world. Lynne and Yang, the swordplay under the stars are like dancing, and romantic! Like Ninja, using sands of the desert is fine, it's on the land, by contrast, there is the viewpoint from the top of the Ferris wheel. Even the tears of the clown were unique when East meets West.Use of music is fine, too. For example, one of the climax of swordplay, the music is with Korean traditional Samulnori, especially with the sound of strong, and gradually high-paced Korean traditional bell. The mixture of the traditional western movie storyline and Asian sounds was fresh. East meets West succeeded, and really fun for me, not from eyes but also from ears.If you are not an Asian, you may not distinguish Ninja movement from the Phantom Soldiers' one. The Phantom Soldiers are the staffs of Am-heng-o-sa, the Korean traditional hero. When three Phantom Soldiers wrap up Colonel's soldiers and use their knives, it is exactly the action of Phantom Soldiers'. It really entertained me. Mostly, the film goes on as an action entertainment, however I found the word "the desert is a man, flower is a woman" brings me some poetic heart. In fact, the film has several scenes of flowers and petals over the desert. The baby princess April, and Lynne stand for flowers, and a life. If the baby was a boy..., Yang might not bring up the baby, but kill him. Also, the music, Maria Callas's aria in the Wild West is also a flower in the desert. Many symbolic flowers and desert in the film, woman and man, a life and swordplay/war... and which lead to...the oriental philosophy, Yin and Yang. In the eastern Asia, the world is believed, consists of Yin and Yang, and a man belongs to Yang, a woman belongs to Yin. Ancient oriental view of the world, philosophy was expressed symbolically, and which also entertained me.Many of characters are funny, not only speech or words, but also just a movement, like of three young guys. But, the funniest thing is the job of the warrior Yang. It's laundry. Because, the most usual, and the first job for Koreans who came to the U.S. is laundry!

In Sngmoo Lee's directorial depute he as the honor of directing Academy Award® Winner Geoffrey Rush, and Kate Bosworth, Danny Huston and International Korean sensation Jang Dong Gun, from the highest grossing Korean film "Friend" star in this overly stylized martial arts western mash-up.After a lifetime of training as a assassin or soldier in some grand battle between families, the world's most dangerous swordsman/samurai Yang (Jang Dong-gun) with the exodus of his homeland and well-trained obedient warrior clan, to start a new life in the American West after a change of heart when practically single-handedly slaughtering his rival's army, our hero spares a newborn child. Yang and the orphan find the beat-down town of Lode, "The Paris of the West" a home for outcast, circus performers, an old drunks (Geoffrey Rush), and a knife-thrower (Kate Bosworth) who is looking for revenge & redemption from "The Colonel" (Danny Huston) a sadistic rapist for killing her family as a child. Yang takes Kate Bosworth as his student. Soon "The Colonel" and his gang wage an all-out war against the town. "The Warrior" Yang must lead the town into an epic battle. Meanwhile Yang's old master and his army of Ninjas hear the call of Yang's weeping sword, "yes you heard right, the weeping sword". Let me explain, when the sword is unsheathed the swords weeps for all the lives it took. Lame as all hell.The film begins as cartoonish as it ends; with over the top choreographed fight sequences and gravity-defying stunts and over the top cg, annoying coolness, fans of 300 will love this film. I'm considering on starting a campaign in which studios are forced to reveal the percentage of cg to practical effects on all releases, I think people will be surprised on the number. I want to know if I'm watching cartoon or not. We are constantly reminding that the actors are interacting in front of a green screen, taking us out of the film. "Or am I the only one that cares" Very much influences by comic book and video game action, not to mention cheesy video game duologue which seemed to be written by a 14 year old or a video game designer that knows very little about storyteller just regurgitating images and lines they thought sounded cool in other movies. Fortune cookie freshman eastern philosophy one liners.If there is a silver cg lining in this disgrace of a western is the narration of the great Geoffrey Rush, with his worn growl of a voice which acts of story teller to this thing called a film. Geoffrey Rush is one of the most honest actors still working, and yet again he is wasted in another bad movie. Kate Bosworth a true beauty and wonderful actress and like Rush just wasting away in bad movies.Our main character Yang (Jang Dong Gun) played with a great stockiness', a classic character type "man with no name" a stereo type that exist in a good number of westerns. A story told a thousand times over – the hard man trying to make amends putting down his weapons taking the straight and narrow, only to be pulled back into the world he is trying to escape.With a bit of Sergio Leone campyness – without that small sense Leone's realism this is truly a Jonah Hex companion piece, at least in same level of quality. Trying to play a bit on the surrealism of Kung Fu Hustle but missing badly on the entertainment value.A little past midpoint the film screeches to a halts with a meandering laughable pointless series of scenes with Geoffrey Rush and Jang Dong-gun having "deep thoughts" at the desert garden which now grows beautiful foliage.Dead horses on the battlefield attempting to evoke Akira Kurosawa "for shame Sngmoo Lee , for shame". Jang Dong Gun is a true talent and has all the potential of crossing over to an American audience with the right role choices; this is diffidently not the right vehicle for him. He has great look about him and a natural ease on camera, he has been compares to a younger Chow Yun-Fat, yes unfair and a little racist, not every new young Asian actor that has moderate success in the US should feel that measurement.At the conclusion and what should have been most climactic scene in the movie – with the grand, epic long awaited show down with the greatest swordsman in the world and the teacher that taught him everything he knows, once again the films crescendo completely breaks down with a meaningless flashback. And the movie is over… the after the fact caper is laughable, I'll just let you witness that on your own. If your not 14years old you should not like this movie… -Will- nerdvanainc.com