Ninja Assasin

Rating: 7.4/10

Genre: Action Slasher

Overall value for money and time: 7.0/10

Raised and trained as a merciless killer in the Yazuka ninja clan since he was a young orphan, Raizo (Rain) must now fight against his brothers and sisters for his freedom. Well, that's the main geeze of it, there's a lot more details but keeping the sypnosis as such will increase the suspense of the movie, though the main bulk of the "suspense" in this movie isn't the plot, but the attack of the ninjas.

This movie didn't quite turn out as I had expected, it wasn't a cool action ninja movie which featured Rain's well-trained body in a short scene. Instead it was a horror, slasher, pretty cool action ninja movie which excessively featured Rain's body throughout the middle of the movie when he trains himself in his dark isolated room as he reminiscence about his past...

And yes, your eyes weren't playing tricks on you, horror slasher. It was so intense whenever the ninjas were planning an assasination that when they appear out of nowhere, they will give you a jump. And after which, that's when the slasher scenes come in. Extremely gory, though animated, it was highly realistic. It's not on the same level as the gore from Saw, where the gore comes from "realistic" situations, it's more like Blood The Last Vampire where there were lots of slashing, splattering of bright red blood and massive dissection of bodies.

With such a flamboyant plot, there were bound to be a good handful of loopholes, or in other words, areas which didn't make much sense. *major spoilers ahead* First off, why were all the ninjas so stealth like (they were able to "teleport") but not Rain, the supposed gifted child who had the potential to take the place of their leader? Instead, he had to be running away on bare feet or even take a car to escape from the rest? Secondly, I'm not sure if I got it right but the first ninja assasin at the opening scene looked like Rain, though supposedly it should be his "brother". Last but not least, the last scene was the most exaggerated. The one where he was finally able to "teleport" and in 1 single shot, defeated the boss. Also, after the entire movie, it feels like humans with displaced hearts wasn't that rare an encounter after all...

Still, it wasn't just an average movie, it excelled in the later scenes of the movie and the entire package did it for me. I would recommend it to Rain fans and ninja lovers, the only advice I would give is don't expect a good match of leads, and expect a horror slasher movie instead of a cool action flick.