Ninja Assassin (2009)

France, Germany, United States of America

Action, Adventure, Thriller

Legendary Pictures, Dark Castle Entertainment, Silver Pictures, Anarchos Productions, Rocklock Films, Studio Babelsberg, Warner Bros. Pictures, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Hermanas Wachowski, StudioCanal

Rain, Naomie Harris, Sung Kang, Randall Duk Kim, Rick Yune, Yuki Iwamoto

James McTeigue

J. Michael Straczynski, Matthew Sand

Taglines: Fear not the weapon, but the hand that wields it.

martial arts, assassin, assassination, ninja fighter, gore, stick fighting, sensei, revenge, ninja, bloody fight, chop socky, ninjutsu, kusarigama

Ninja Assassin follows Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge.

Reviews:

Author: DanDare
An over the top Ninja action film with visceral bloody scenes. Humdrum story but goofily entertaining. Raizo has been trained by the Ozunu clan to be a Ninja assassin since childhood but has turned his back on them. Raizo teams up with a Europol investigator Mika to go after his former master to get revenge for the killing of his friend.