Filmikaze!

By: James McTeigue (director), Matthew Sand, J. Michael Straczynski (screenplay)

Starring: Rain, Naomie Harris, Ben Miles, Rick Yune, Sho Kosugi

A young ninja turns his back on the orphanage that raised him, leading to a confrontation with a fellow ninja from the clan.

As I’ve mentioned before, I am a fan of both the action and horror genre. I am not squeamish and I am not adverse to gore when it serves a purpose. Even excessive violence and gore can be done in a way that it isn’t simply there for the gross-out factor—See the Kill Bill movies for a classic example. Ninja Assassin, however, is simply blood and guts for the sake of it. So much so that I honestly couldn’t tell you what the hell the plot was really about. It’s difficult to care when people are being cut in half left and right. The fight scenes were well-choreographed, but that is really all it has going for it, and this is all the time I really want to spend talking about it.