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Ninja Assas­sin in not your aver­age ninja flick.…..with that said, I must say that it was very styl­ish in exe­cu­tion and made no issue in using loads of blood & guts. I watched the trail­ers and looked for rea­sons to really not like this movie. As more infor­ma­tion became avail­able I real­ized the movie looked like a great pop­corn flick. Before I con­tinue my review here is a lit­tle bit about the film:

Raizo (Rain) is one of the world’s dead­liest assas­sins, hav­ing been orphaned as a child and raised by the Ozunu Clan, believed by the world to be a myth. When the love of his life is exe­cuted by the Clan for betrayal, Raizo begins to har­bor resent­ment towards the Clan. When his first offi­cial mis­sion is com­pleted, he is told to exe­cute one of his fel­low mem­bers for the same rea­son his lover died. He rebels against them, nearly dying in the process, and goes into hid­ing, seek­ing revenge on his for­mer Clan. Mean­while, Mika Coretti (Naomie Har­ris) is a Europol agent who inves­ti­gates money linked to polit­i­cal mur­ders and finds that it is linked to the Ozunu Clan. She defies her supe­rior, Ryan Maslow (Ben Miles), and retrieves secret agency files to find out more. The Clan, find­ing out about the inves­ti­ga­tion, attempts to assas­si­nate her, but she is res­cued by Raizo. Hid­ing in Berlin, Raizo and Mika must find a way to take down the Ozunu Clan. Per­ma­nently. Excerpt — Ninja Assas­sin Wikipedia

Ninja Assas­sin is a whirl­wind of ninja stars, blood and guts that in 99 min­utes deliv­ers a sym­phony of vio­lence. I was pleas­antly sur­prised when I found out that Rain was same actor who appeared in Speed Racer. His por­trayal of Raizo was well exe­cuted and kept my inter­est in the char­ac­ter. While some may argue that use of CGI blood was over­done, I per­son­ally felt that it added a cool dynamic and reminded me of the bat­tle between the Bride and the Crazy 88’s in Kill Bill.  I was also sur­prised by the cameo of Sho Kusugi which to me is the father of ninja action movies.

If you are a fan of Kill Bill or the old Shaw Broth­ers mar­tial arts films you will enjoy Ninja Assas­sin. If you decide to watch it, real­ize that this movie is not meant to be an Oscar can­di­date, but it’s a great action flick that will pro­vide a few laughs and a few WTF moments.

My Take : Recommend