Hard-to-see fight scenes and harder-to-swallow dialogue, delivered with a straight face and capped off with some super-splattery kills.
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12/17/09
Ninja Assassin (2009)
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Reviews Counted:88
Fresh:27
Rotten:61
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Overly serious and incomprehensibly edited, Ninja Assassin fails to live up to the promise of its title.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Theatrical Release:Nov 25, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $34,304,761
Synopsis: Raizo is one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is... [More]
Reviews for Ninja Assassin
revels in the unrealistic absurdity of both its plot and its action sequences, plying the audience with its splatterfest silliness but always keep a straight face just in case
12/10/09
Ninja Assassin features gigabytes of blood being shed on screen.
12/07/09
As a viewer, your only task here is to watch, eat popcorn, and laugh, jump or shriek%u2014whichever works for you%u2014whenever you see heads roll, limbs fly or or hemoglobin spurting.
12/06/09
if you go to a movie called Ninja Assassin--mayhem is what you signed up for. If you expected Crouching Tiger, then please check your meds.
12/06/09
All the bloody splatting and fast editing mean that it doesn't matter what's real or not real in Ninja Assassin.
12/04/09
Rarely as fun as its title suggests...
12/03/09
Perhaps such phenomenal slaughter is best left to the imagination.
12/02/09
Never tries to be anything but a slick update of the cheap martial arts thrillers distributed by Cannon Films in the 1980s...
12/01/09
Hey, how many ninja movies are there for comparison? Plenty of action and an interesting hero plus above-average special effects. I wouldn't recommend putting this film up against Citizen Kane, of course. Paul Chambers, CNN.
12/01/09
Ninja Assassin could - and should - have been the Zombieland of martial arts flicks. Instead, it's just totally skip-able.
11/30/09
The problem is that the fight sequences -- the only reason anyone sees a movie like this in the first place -- are muddy, chaotic and boring. Even diehard fans of this genre would be well advised to skip this one.
11/30/09
Top CriticDelivers everything you'd expect from a film titled "Ninja Assassin."
11/30/09
"Ninja Assassin" will not be enjoyed by all, specifically the female crowd who will feel assassinated by this action film.
11/30/09
isn't just one of the year's best action films; it's one of the best this decade
11/30/09
This hyperkinetic gorefest should have remained in the shadows.
11/30/09
If you think this looks like a gorefest from the trailers, just wait until you see the whole thing.
11/29/09
Humorless, pedestrian and overly flashback-laden, the film’s only distinction is the over-the-top gore made possible by digital effects.
11/29/09
James McTeigue ("V for Vendetta") directs this unpredictable acrobatic display of violent spectacle that carries its themes of loyalty and skill in a slick flatpack of fast-twitch precision.
11/29/09
Maybe 50 minutes into the 96-minute running time, the film goes south as quickly and decisively (if not quite as badly) as any I've ever seen.
11/29/09
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James McTeigue's "Ninja Assassin" is losing the battle with critics, but don't feel too badly for him -- as he discusses in a new interview, he has plenty of other stuff going on. More...
November 24, 2009:
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November 23, 2009:
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October 07, 2009:
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