If you’re like the billions of other people in the world who love democracy, then (odds are) you also love ninjas. It’s totally cool, you can admit it; you’re among friends. It’s hard to figure out why ninjas are so awesome. Perhaps it’s the fact that they have that whole “mysterious” thing going for them or perhaps it’s because they get to wear pajamas 24/7 and I have to wear these itchy khakis that are always riding up. Regardless, to appease our ninja hunger comes the redundantly titled film NINJA ASSASSIN and the trailer from MTV. If you are allergic to throwing stars, you may not want to watch.
You may also enjoy this poster if you wish.
What do you mean we have to take another picture?! I do one take!
If I’m ever put into a kind of “Thunderdomesque” competition, I’m going to bungee jump for the “ice-pick on the end of a chain” last, but that’s just me. On the whole, I think I’m going to dig this movie, though I have some reservations about the apparent overuse of CG effects. I like CG effects when they make sense, but I just don’t see the need to digitally put an ice-pick on the end of a chain when you could just have a dude swing an ice-pick on the end of a chain.
I’m also a little weary about the story. From my exhaustive research (it involved finding the movies website and then going to that website) I learned that the movie starts out awesome enough with an orphan becoming a ninja and killing dudes. And then his friend is killed by his ninja buddies so he goes on the lamb from his ninja clan (rhyming). But that’s when the movie seems to start throwing crap up on the screen to see what sticks. There’s apparently some police lady who is investigating all the ninja assassinations and the ninjas don’t like that so they try to kill her and our good ninja conveniently saves her and together they take down the ninja clan. That just seems so tacked on to me. Why does our hero need more motivation beyond just “I want to get revenge for my friend?” Now his motivation is “I want to get revenge for my friend, save this stranger that I just met and take down the evil ninja group that I only found out was evil when they killed my friend but was cool with before that.” It just seems like an unnecessary subplot that was created to make the movie more marketable to female audiences which is a stupid idea when you name your movie NINJA ASSASSIN.
