Happy Turkey Day + Ninja Assassin!

First of all I want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving!!!
Eat up, sleep and repeat! KILL THEM TURKEYS!
After today I'm going to go on a diet haha.
I am thankful for:
1. Family
2. Friends
3. My girlfriend. WAH AI NI! O_O
Yaaay.

And..
I just watched Ninja Assassin last night with a few friends and I came in pretty excited because I love ninjas and assassins lol.
Korean popstar Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain! stars as an orphan adopted by a Japanese ninja clan who raises kids to become assassins.
Somewhere along the line some government agents stumble upon this secret and find out governments use the ninjas for assassinations.
Rain turns against his clan after refusing to kill an innocent victim...almost like Batman Begins...actually this movie is a lot like Batman Begins just minus the Batman and Rain actually kills people..bad people though.
I didn't expect much of a story nor substance within the film; I just wanted to see some ass blood and guts! And the film delivered in that department.
The opening sequence satisfied my expectations as to what kind of violence this movie was going to offer. A fun cameo by Sung Kang was made as well.
After that the movie slowed down a bit; introducing Rain in a brief scene...though I feel they could have introduced him in a better fashion *shrug*
The film encounters a series of flashbacks showing Rain's strict training as a child to a teen and his encounter with an orphan girl who wishes to escape.
This pretty much leads to his confrontation with his Master played by Sho Kosugi who in my opinion was the most badass motherfucker in the entire movie and his clan.
If you have no idea who Sho Kosugi is...he's like one of the pioneers of ninja movies in the 80's. I grew up watching a lot of his films..

Revenge of the Ninja!
Anyway back to the topic; then Rain teams up with Europol agent Mika(Naomie Harris, same girl who played Selena in 28 Weeks Later!) and they go on the run after the clan hunts them down.
This is your basic revenge type flick with ninjas. The acting was pretty bad, the story wasn't that engaging, and there wasn't any development between the characters.
The best aspect of the film were the fight scenes and even those were hard to keep up on because the direction was very close, shaky, and too flashy to tell what's going on. I suppose the director McTeigue(V for Vendetta) wanted to show how sneaky and fast the ninjas were but I feel that, that is never a good way to film a fight scene. The fight scenes were like Bourne/Batman Begins type fights...
But do prepare for lots of gore, slicing and dicing. The film does not fail in that department...if you want to know how gory this film really is just watch the redband trailer.


7.5/10