What red-blooded slightly immature man doesnt love a bit of ninja style slicing and dicing with plentiful shuriken flinging, cool ninja posing and stealthy skullduggery? After the first 5 minutes of this you will be thinking warm sexy thoughts as an unseen almost supernatural presence graphically dismembers and mutilates a gang of nasty triad types in an almost Predator-style unstoppable fashion. It's quality. Really, we are talking top levels of the aul ultraviolence here, aided by plentiful amounts of actually quite well done cg blood spurtings and sprayings. The ninjas in this are HARD and SCARY.
Unfortunately most of the rest of the movie is pretty dull....the occasional burst of extremely graphic gore perks it up a bit - a wince-inducingly messy assassination in a bathroom, a highly enjoyable face-off between about 40 ninjas and an army of special forces near the end - but everything else creaks and bumbles along with nary a hint of intelligence wit or acting ability. Half of the movie consists of boring flashbacks to the hero's early life in some rural ninja creche somewhere. I have absolutely no idea what the main storyline involved. The action scenes would help a bit more if most of them weren't shot in almost complete darkness with spasticated editing.
The movie's star is apparently the korean r+b equivalent of Craig David. Riiiiiiiight then. He's no Tony Jaa but he jumps around nimbly enough and has a stomach you could grate cheese on. Plus you have to love a hero who, after killing a random female ninja in a laundrette, stuffs her scrambled corpse into a washing machine, for no apparent reason whatsoever. It's very stupid, written-by-teenage-boys stuff, but I'll give it a pass for about 15-20 minutes of highly enjoyable computer-aided carnage. But next time let's actually see what's going on yeah?
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