Ninja Assassin
I know that this movi
e was released for some time now, but i watched it for the first time last night. What can i say, except that I LOVED IT. I know that many people didn’t liked it because it had too much blood and that the opening was kind of weird because it starts with cutting a man’s head in two, that the ninjas move way too fast in the dark and that they can heal like they have supernatural powers (these are things that my friends complained about).
I must say first that I’m an anime fan… a big one! And this is why i like the movie. All those things that people see as exaggerations in this movie, for me are resemblances to anime (Japanese cartoons… kind of…). I’m glad that even though this movie was made in Hollywood, the director (James McTiegue) kept an anime flavour to it. This movie reminded me of amine like Samurai X, Afro Samurai and Rurouni Kenshin, with beautiful fights, bloody scenes and, of course, limb-cutting.
The Korean superstar Ji Hun Jeong (his name as a singer is Rain) who plays Raizo, did his job perfectly. He shows that besides his looks, he can fight. The choreography of the fights was beautiful, with all those swords fighting scenes, and that knife with a chain that Raizo uses, and the jump-and-spin thing that he does.
The movie has a soft side as well, and here I refer to the feelings that Raizo starts to feel towards his friend, and that he tries to remain true to who he is, finding himself and discover that he is human and that he does have a heart, even though the life he was raised into is heartless.
Anyone can see this movie, if they try to see beyond the “exaggerations”. It’s a good movie and the fans of martial arts and those who watch this kind of anime will love it.
