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Rated: R for strong bloody stylized violence throughout, and language.

Genre: Martial Arts Action

Directed By: James McTeigue

Running Time: 1:39

Review by: Momar Van Der Camp

Review Date: 11/30/09

NINJA ASSASSIN

Blood, guts, gore, action, ninjas. This is a movie for guys. A movie about guys and a movie about sheer killing and torture and vengeance and honor. And I loved every single moment of the movie because it’s a B-movie. Through and through.

It’s a movie for guys just like Rambo and the new Punisher were guy movies. The film makes such a badass of the star Rain that if it doesn’t do anything for his career, than I blame those stupid Twilight movies for ruining his chances of taking the box office.

He looks like such a clean-cut guy at the beginning of the film only to get more bloodied and crazy and insanely vengeful as the film goes on, that once the ending comes with the big ninja showdown, he doesn’t look like the same guy.

At all. Matted hair and covered in blood, he’s a man of insane perfection and just some sheer awesome.

The movie drags with the plot points that try to get stuffed into the middle. When all you want is action and awesome, dealing with a plot at certain points is just unnecessary in my book.

Then there’s the intrigue and the mystery of people switching sides and acting like they’re playing both sides against the middle and I’m just tired of that crap. Also, why is it that every attractive woman they put in the middle of these movies, who just so happens to be a forensic researcher, is in the middle of the action at the end? And is a wizard with the gun? I don’t get that crap.

Also: the worst thing was the blood was CGI. And that pissed me off. But the insanity made it work in the end.

If you’re looking for an action movie in the vein of 80s blood-packed action films, look no further than this insane action-packed throwback to the ninja and vigilante movies from that simpler era. Just simple action-packed insanity and we all get a smile on our faces.

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