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From
the makers of
The
Matrix
and
V for
Vendetta
comes
Ninja
Assassin,
a blood spattering
thrill ride that is
the best martial
arts movie to come
out in the past five
years. It's got a
great plot and
Korean pop star Rain
is an awesome lead
actor.
Raizo was raised by
the Ozunu clan, a
clan of ninjas that
kidnaps young
children and
basically tortures
them and trains them
into becoming deadly
killing machines.
These aren't
teenagers that are
kidnapped and
trained either.
We're talking about
children as young as
six doing some
bloody, violent
things to each other
in training. The
Ozunu clan is pretty
much evil. Raizo is
one of the few
children that had a
hard time adapting
to the soulless way
of the Ozunu. When
he gets pushed over
the edge he has a
deadly bout with
twenty ninjas, and
barely escapes from
the clan with his
life. After that
he's constantly on
the run from the
ninjas. Constantly
living in fear and
ready to fight for
his life at any
moment. His luck
changes for the
better when a young
Interpol researcher
digs up information
on the Ozunu clan.
Information that has
them doing dirty
work for different
governments for
years, all for the
same price...
Rain
is a great lead
actor in
Ninja
Assassin.
He's surprisingly
good. A lot of
martial arts movies
have featured some
terrible actors.
That's not what
they're about.
They're supposed to
be about the all of
the action, not the
four lines of
dialect that the
star receives. With
this movie that's
not the case. Rain
delivers his lines
really well and when
it's a scene where
he's not talking and
they're just showing
him doing something,
his body language
and his expressions
are stellar. Rain is
a good actor.
As
for all of the blood
and gore...
Ninja
Assassin
might be the
bloodiest movie I've
ever seen. There are
several scenes that
look like someone
planted a bomb in a
butcher shop and
arms and rump roasts
have fallen
everywhere. Not to
mention the amount
of blood spatter....
well spattered...
across everything in
Ninja
Assassin.
The
Blu-Ray release of
Ninja
Assassin
has some good
content including a
piece on Ninjas. a
piece on all the
crazy dudes that
helped create the
movie's stunts and
action pieces, and
there's also a piece
on Rain's training
for the role of
Raizo. In addition
to these special
features there's
also an exclusive
sneak peak at the
new version of Clash
of the Titans- and
it's a great preview
of what's going to
be an awesome movie.
Ninja
Assassin
was an awesome
action movie. You
really couldn't want
anything more out of
a flick like this.
It's
got a good
storyline, and some
awesome action
sequences.
Ninja
Assassin
is going to be a
surprise for several
people. It's a movie
that you don't want
to miss.
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