I have watched so many ninja movies over the years, so, the thought of another modern one excited me. On the surface this looked like it was going to be a great movie.
Alas, no!
Like other people have cited, you have a bunch of ninjas that have been trained for years, but, yet you are confronted with situations like,thugs bursting into rooms whilst firing guns, and one ninja has to tell the other to get down. I mean for goodness sake, you do not have to be a ninja to know what to do that when guns are going off!!
The female lead being so utterly pathetic, that she should not have even been a ninja. Apart from being slapped around throughout the movie by common thugs, she was so good at hiding in plain-sight, that when their faces are plastered all over the TV and press, she happily pops out for coffees?!?! Where she is immediately spotted by a guy linked to the thugs (the coffee shop clerk), who with a call has bad guys surrounding them in seconds, literally!!!!
Even before the above, her love-interest, the main guy/ninja type fellow, never even noticed that she left the room, because he was sleeping. I mean what kind of ninja are they!??!
There are so many scenes like this where the ninjas are just plain stupid; they show no intelligence, no foresight, and no skills. They fight like bog standard martial artists, not showing any ninja efficiency or killer instinct, just posturing and blasting off roundhouse kicks and the rest, and the female just gets constantly kicked over. No, I have nothing against fighting like that, but I do when they are suppose to be ninjas!!!
The main characters are constantly pursued, but they have no plans, they just run hand in hand from the bad guys, there is no going to ground and regrouping later, just very un-ninja like!!
Check out the main bad guy when he was pursuing the pathetic ninja female in the police station, he goes to the trouble to kill the electrics, yet he walks around in bloody tap-shoes!!
I am not even going to bother talking about the bat wings and night vision goggles!!!!
Oh, and the ending, with the antidote in the sword, there again, just plain stupid!!
Alas, no!
Like other people have cited, you have a bunch of ninjas that have been trained for years, but, yet you are confronted with situations like,thugs bursting into rooms whilst firing guns, and one ninja has to tell the other to get down. I mean for goodness sake, you do not have to be a ninja to know what to do that when guns are going off!!
The female lead being so utterly pathetic, that she should not have even been a ninja. Apart from being slapped around throughout the movie by common thugs, she was so good at hiding in plain-sight, that when their faces are plastered all over the TV and press, she happily pops out for coffees?!?! Where she is immediately spotted by a guy linked to the thugs (the coffee shop clerk), who with a call has bad guys surrounding them in seconds, literally!!!!
Even before the above, her love-interest, the main guy/ninja type fellow, never even noticed that she left the room, because he was sleeping. I mean what kind of ninja are they!??!
There are so many scenes like this where the ninjas are just plain stupid; they show no intelligence, no foresight, and no skills. They fight like bog standard martial artists, not showing any ninja efficiency or killer instinct, just posturing and blasting off roundhouse kicks and the rest, and the female just gets constantly kicked over. No, I have nothing against fighting like that, but I do when they are suppose to be ninjas!!!
The main characters are constantly pursued, but they have no plans, they just run hand in hand from the bad guys, there is no going to ground and regrouping later, just very un-ninja like!!
Check out the main bad guy when he was pursuing the pathetic ninja female in the police station, he goes to the trouble to kill the electrics, yet he walks around in bloody tap-shoes!!
I am not even going to bother talking about the bat wings and night vision goggles!!!!
Oh, and the ending, with the antidote in the sword, there again, just plain stupid!!