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You could have summarized it with:

"I saw a movie called 'Ninja Assassin'. It was as expected."

It was a movie called 'Ninja Assassin'.

That's like making a movie called 'Dirty Mud'.

I think they threw credibility out the window at concept.

It's a film from the Americans, for the American audience.

You can't expect everything to sound authentic.

I saw it at the theaters and it was cool, but it lacked in fights. Like, it had a shitton of them, but, like the fights in the new Batman movies, everything was dark and shaky... really hard to follow.

I wouldn't be surprised if an American mispronounced something, but this was Sho Kosugi for chrissake. Then again, maybe it's some sort of dialect problem. The fact that they had kuji-in in the film was probably the closest they could get to authentic. Everything else felt like that GI JOE cartoon.

Of course I can't expect everything to sound authentic, but perhaps if it was then they'd do away with useless gore and...I dunno...actually make things feel compelling. The fact that they had scenes in Japan and Berlin with everyone speaking PERFECT ENGLISH just disturbed me. I know people hate subtitles, but it's just an atmosphere thing. At LEAST in the flash back parts where there are actual ninjas training and there's no action going on.

I thought the fight scenes had a huge gap of suck when the film just decides to tell all of its exposition in multiple flashbacks and stuff with that one lady following the story. Too much stuff is shown in retrospect. If they're going to schlock together a shamelessly violent movie, then they should have done just that.

And I know exactly what you mean about shaky cameras and darkness. I hate having to pause and rewind just so that I can see what the hell someone just did. It's a lot better when you can actually see the major parts of the fight scene that are fun, like in Kill Bill or Watchmen.

And is it just me, or do all good reviews of bad movies simply end up as being nothing more than a huge play on words to make the reviewer sound witty?



It's like the guy didn't even see the movie.

Either that or he was paid to say all of this. And with the elipses, it's probably taken out of context. Still, I hate these puns. :/

Hey, don't get me wrong here. I know martial arts films are for the martial arts, and not the story. I knew that going into it too.

Doesn't mean it can't be a lame story...or at least a lame film made even lamer by said story.

Jackie Chan films may not have stories that'd get them academy awards, but you don't watch them for their plots. You watch it to see Jackie do what he does best.

Though there's a definite difference between a good martial arts movie with good fight scenes, and just a bunch of shameless gore.

A wild Silver has appeared.

I knew you'd say this.

Which is okay cause it's great when movies have both good story and fights.

You know, Jackie's movies got good plot too.

Well, at least Drunken Master 2 was incredible in every aspect.