Directed by Sngmoo Lee. With Dong-gun Jang, Kate Bosworth, Geoffrey Rush, Danny Huston.
Genre(s): Action, Fantasy, Western
Rating: 6.5/10/10 (370 votes votes)
Country: New Zealand
Languages: English
Company: Culture Unplugged Studios
MPAA: R for strong bloody violence.
Director(s): Sngmoo Lee
Producer(s):
Douglas Falconer – co-executive producer
Frank E. Flowers – associate producer
Murray Francis – line producer
Michelle Hartly – co-executive producer
Eui Hong – executive producer
Lee Joo-Ick – producer
Carol Kim – associate producer
Steven Nam – co-producer
Barrie M. Osborne – producer
Michael Peyser – producer
Stacy Ruppel – associate producer
Timothy White – executive producer
Eunjung Yoo – associate producer
Writer(s):
Sngmoo Lee – written by
Cast:
Dong-gun Jang – Yang
Kate Bosworth – Lynne
Geoffrey Rush – Ron
Danny Huston – Colonel
Tony Cox – Eight-Ball
Lung Ti – Saddest Flute
Analin Rudd – Baby April
Markus Hamilton – Baptiste
Rod Lousich – Craig
Matt Gillanders – Geyser
Music: Javier Navarrete
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The concepts are great. A ninja movie with the smooth cool effectsyou'd hope for, some cinematography reminiscent of 300, and the oldwest verses ninjas. How cool is that? Well….unfortunately, not ascool as you'd think. There was a clip on Xbox Live that shows the first2 minutes of the movie. The crummy thing is, after that first twominutes of setting up the stylish ninja effects and sword play…youdon't see anymore of it till about the last 20 minutes of the movie.And that's exaggerating. Quick fight scene at the start. Long actionscene at the end. And all the stuff in between is mush. I'm not sayingI don't enjoy a movie with a good plot, but c'mon…there was onlyreason why any guy went to see this movie—ninjas…and cowboys VERSESninjas. They didn't go to watch a lengthy story about a ninja fallingin love and getting soft. Me and my buddies were really stoked aboutthis movie going in, but I just really can't say it was that great. Iactually liked the cinematography and the sets, but it just didn't useit enough to it's advantage. And to be honest, I really wasn't thatimpressed by the sword play. It was like the main character was nevertouched and he only had one move–slice. There wasn't any fancyflipping around and doing crazy stunts. It was just: ninja comes athim, he slices, they die. Rinse and repeat. No special way of doing it,just the same move every time. It didn't even look like any trainingwas necessary. They just handed him the fake sword and told himwhenever a guy gets near him, swing at 'em, and we'll add the blood inlater.
The only other thing I can say is that Kate Bosworth's accent wasTERRIBLE and annoying. I know it was supposed to be a little thick, butthat was just a little much. And the funny thing was, as the movieprogressed, it got less thick.
Anyways, wait for this to come out on DVD at best. Believe me, this isnot nearly as cool as it could, or SHOULD, have been.