Stylish, gory and well choreographed. Not much by the way of plot but that's not what you watch a film like this for really.

"Ninja Assassin has little opportunity to fill its action-free beats with dread or tension." - Ryan Stewart

Go into not expecting much bur some violent silly fight scenes. Some of them work pretty well, the rest of the movie however does not.

This movie was visually stimulating, but I can't remember anything about the plot. I actually wish that the whole movie was about the back-story of Rain's character. That would've made a better movie, as that was the only thing I was interested in...besides the fights and visual effects.

the movie is very bad, but the shadow ninjas remember me the DnD Shadowdancer

Strictly on the lesser side of average. Sure, the action scenes are great but when the acting is so subpar and the story is a lesser version of revenge flicks I know are much better executed it's hard to care. Watch for the action, but keep in mind there isn't much more to this film.

I love Ninjas. They are just the COOLEST thing.

bloody vision - estetica parecida cm tarantino! Gostei!

eng; [Ninja Assassin]; als weisenkind in einer schule für ninjas aufgezogen, entscheidet sich raizo gegen den clan weil seine freundin durch selbigen getötet wurde - eine hetzjagd beginnt.

So bad, but so entertaining in its badness. Overly generic and mostly forgettable, full of CGI blood and bad action scenes, it does manage to emulate old crappy kung-fu movies pretty solidly. Both fun and juvenile as hell.

Some nice action bits but too much CGI-blood ruins the action scenes and, as expected from a movie called Ninja Assassin, there is no plot or acting or anything else that deserves a mention.

good

Turned it off after 20 minutes, prolly can't be bothered to watch it again. My prediction for the quality of the rest of the film: bad to ok. 30.

Bad CGI gore and the rest is not well either

AWESOME ACTION

Would have probably loved this as a 12-year-old. What it lacks in practical effects (the CG blood gets to be an annoyance), it makes up for in energy and campiness. Highly entertaining.

Ninja Assassin is about ninjas assassinating people. And since they've been around for a thousand years, they've gotten very good at it. The inventiveness is quite admirable. Plot? Yeah, there's a plot about a rogue ninja taking on his whole clan to aid Europol or something, and there's a Japanese fortress in Switzerland for some reason, but - oh, look, blood. Cool.

Would have worked better as NINJA NINJA.

Meh. The story of this movie is certainly nothing unique, and all the set pieces have been done better in other movies.

I'm not entirely sure as to what I was expecting but I was really disappointed with this. Some of the action scenes are decent (the last 15-20 minutes) but everything else is atrocious. The acting, the dialogue, the story, the CGI, the choreography, it all adds up to further evidence that Americans should leave certain genres to the Asians.

Its got a lead actor (Rain) who can act physically and perform fight scenes, a virtually unrecognisable Shô Kosugi as a suitably diabolical and evil villain, and its one of the only films where the CGI blood works. Sadly, not only are some of the fight scene badly presented (you cannot see a thing a lot of times) but most of the film is spent on a character development which is redundant and does not have the silly edge to it something like American Ninja and other 80s film had.

Reasonably entertaining junk food for martial arts fans. I can't fault the film too much for its bad acting or formulaic plot developments, as these are too common for the genre to really gripe about. The hyperbolic ninja carnage is amusing for a while, particularly when the film goes off the deep end. The fights are generally fine but they grow a little tedious as the same pattern repeats itself.