NINJA ASSASSIN Film Review - 21/3/10

Quite a number of names attached to this: J. Michael Straczynski (He of the 'Babylon 5' Universe) was writing the Screenplay, we also had the Wachowski brothers and Joel Silver on board as Producers plus Director James McTeigue ('V For Vendetta') throw in a charismatic lead in the form of an actor called Rain and all hell breaks loose! Faces slide off heads sliced through with razor cut blades and you can hear the thhrrrrippp sound whistling through the air as various shuriken throwing stars embed themselves into torsos. Then silence as a flashback takes you into the past and an air of grace settles upon you as the story slowly unfolds. Extremely brutal and extremely violent I haven't seen anything this blood drenched for quite awhile. If you take the story-telling of 'Crying Freeman' 'La Femme Nikita' or 'Brotherhood Of The Wolf' it mixes the violence with a tender love story from the past and then lays out it's vendetta for all to see. Basically a revenge tale it has a blend of genres but follows it's own path. An Interpol Agent working in Berlin comes across information on some high-profile assassinations and the links lead to a clandestine ancient Ninja Clan - Getting too close to the truth the clan send out assassins to silence the leak - But one of their own clan defends the agent setting a drastic chain of events in motion. I for one have already ordered it on DVD.

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