http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186367/

Ninja Assassin is a movie about ninjas. I hope that didn't spoil anything, but I just wanted to get that out of the way. This movie has lots of ninjas. Some have swords, and some have chain things with blades on the end. This movie has some great and ridiculous fight scenes with lots of terrible looking CGI blood. Not cool terrible, but just terrible. When it went on the walls it was fine but the scenes of ninjas being sliced with CGI blood everywhere looked really bad a lot of the time. Aside from the fight scenes everything else is pretty bad. There is some backstory that sets up who Raizu is, but it is very generic and predictable. Also people talk about hearts a lot, which was some of the worst dialogue in the film. Hearts are brought up several times throughtout and each time it gets cheesier and cheesier. The romance was poorly written, and the acting was even worse. I don't expect a huge backstory, but if a movie wants to spend time showing us why a character is who he is it should at least be acted well. Everybody except Naomi Harris was mediocre at best. Riazo especially was one of the worst acted and generic movie characters I have seen this year. He is good at looking cool, but when he starts trying to act he is really bad. The actors didn't really have much to work with though, the film is not very well written and whenether the story gets interesting they throw in another fight scene. The fight scenes were all good, but after a while they started to get monotonous. There was no atmosphere or tension between them since I could predict what would happen in all of them.

The same director made V For Vendetta, which held off on it's fight scenes until the end and there was great build up, acting, and story that made me really excited to see the fight scene. That is what makes Ninja Assassin not work as well. The fight scenes are all done very well but they just got dull after a while. The film sets up some cool backstory, but it forgets about it when all the fight scenes happen. None of the characters are interesting enough to care about and after a while I just started waiting for the fights to happen since everything else was not very interesting. The film has an interesting concept, but overall it is a dissapointment. If you want to see some good ninja fight scenes then I recommend this. As long as you don't care about good acting, story, or characters then you will probably enjoy that. If you want some substance to you're action films like V for Vendetta then you probably won't like this. For what it's worth though I still kinda liked this. It had moments that were fun to watch, but like the film 9 it ruins it's potential it sets up with dull characters and monotonous fight scenes. Unlike 9 though it doesn't even have much visually or interesting themes to make it better. But hey it has ninjas, and they fight a lot. What else do you really need in a film called Ninja Assassin?

Overall I give it a 5 out of 10.