Ninja Assassin

I like to think that I will see a wide range of films. I generally am not a fan of calling something a “boy” movie or a “girl” movie. I believe we can all enjoy a good disaster movie and that John Hughes’ oeuvre has life lessons for everyone. (Just try a little tenderness, gentlemen. Just try.)

But then my boyfriend convinced me to see Ninja Assassin—the most boy-tastic boy movie ever created. (I’d made him see New Moon—during its opening weekend, natch.)

Ninja Assassin was pretty alright, if nothing else than in that “my boyfriend made me see it” type of way. From an aesthetic standpoint, I saw some blood shed in ways I hadn’t before. The most impressive deaths included disembodiment in a Laundromat and a man sliced shoulder to hip by a ninja’s sword. Talk about your sharp knives.

Story-wise, Ninja Assassin is about an orphanage that turns childless parents into efficient assassins. Think the Artful Dodger teaching death rather than light thievery. Raizo (played by Korean pop star Rain) was done wrong by the orphanage and teams up with a plucky Europol researcher (Naomie Harris) to end the killing.

Ninja Assassin was downright entertaining, in a spurty, blood and lots of guts type way. The ending dragged out a bit and supplied one of the corniest anatomy lessons ever, but overall, was worth the price of admission. Even for a boy movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M_VZ2TdIgk

(Just another relaxing ninja day.)