Ninjas = Assassins?

Most of the awesome action movies that involves crazy action involving swords and things that are sharp are usually going to be Chinese wire-fu films. They're good movies, but the wires are a bit much and it just gets hard to take seriously sometimes. American action movies are primarily just a ton of guns now too, and there's nothing too cool about watching guns; you just pull a trigger and you're done. Nothing too special.

I always enjoyed action movies, but there has been a lack of good action lately. This changed once Ninja Assassin came out.

I'm going to tell you now, the story is absolute crap, but that's expected of an action movie.
But do you ever go to see an action movie for the story? No, you see it for the action.

The fighting scenes in Ninja Assassin are just spectacular with a minimal amount of guns. The opening scene of the movie shows a gang being attacked by a ninja, heads fly off and limbs get chopped off, and you don't really see any of it happen. That is until there is only one man standing and a ninja appears out of the shadows, then BAM! Last man is dead, cut to Ninja Assassin logo. After that first opening scene you will there will be lots of...
a) Ninjas
b) Lots of blood
c) Action
d) Awesome

What I love about the movie is that they don't over do the ninja. You know, moving at the speed of light, fireballs, walking through walls and crap. They move at the speed of light about two times in the movie (speed of light might be an exaggeration, but inhumanly possible.) and occasionally become shadows, but for the most part when you don't see them, they're just hiding.
It's realistic with just a touch of fantasy.

With such a bloody, intense opening scene though, you would expect the action to only get better. Well, you're a little bit wrong. The action is still good, but I personally expected a little bit more from what you see at the beginning. Especially the last person the protagonist kills, you expect him to you know...rip him to shreds or cut his body in half. Nope, slash and walk away. It was a cool fight, but the kill was alright.



Here's a closing statement.
Ninja Assassin is a good movie for the action. Don't go walking into the cinema looking for a good story because you will be sorely disappointed. Walk into the cinema looking for awesome action, and you will be satisfied.
I have to give the movie a 8/10