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Genres:	ActionFantasyWest
Starring:	Kate Bosworth, Danny Huston, Tony Cox, Geoffrey Rush, Ian Harcourt, Jed Brophy, Matt Gillanders
Director(s):	Sngmoo Lee
Available Quality:	DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Country:	New Zealand
Year:	2010
IMDB Rating:	6.2
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A warrior-assassin is forced to hide in a small town in the American Badlands after refusing a mission.

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Visitor Reviews: (20)

jssgarden 16 May 2012

This is NOT your ordinary action movie!!!

First of all, this is not your ordinary action movie, so don't expectany fast pace kung- fu/martial arts in here. There are action scenes,but they're more like spice to add to the story than the main purposeof the movie. Have you questioned why the all the scenes looked soartificial? All the actions was in slow motion? You can find every kindof stereotypes in here and the plot is extremely predictable? BecauseTHEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THAT. Think of this movie like.. a folk tale that you read in a HansChristian Anderson's book. You open the book, it talked about awarrior's journey. He ran from the bads, he met friends, he foundpeace, he fought with the bads to protect the peace. Finally, he foughtwith the biggest enemy which is himself. He realized he can't stay, hecontinued his journey. End of story. It is a folk tale story that'stranslated to the big screen.The main thing is the humanity that liedunderneath. Anyone who expected more than that, really didn't grap themain point of this story. We went to watch this movie on my friend's 21st birthday. And yes ihave seen people left in the first 30 mins of the movie. But if youdon't stay till the end of the movie, you're missing the main point ofit. I liked it, most of my friends liked it, only one didn't like it.Therefore, with this type of movie, you either hate it or love it.This movie was directed by a Korean director, and this is his DEBUT. Ithought this is pretty good for a debut product. If anyone familiarwith Korean movies, unlike other movies, Korean movies tend to bereally slow pace, since they take their time to develop the story, aswell as the nature of the characters. Therefore, Korean movie usuallyhave deep meaning behind the scenes, and the characters development isricher, but you won't know unless you stay till the end. This movie isno exception.

Neil Welch 16 May 2012

Weird but engaging

This is the weirdest movie I've seen for some time. Think choreographedmartial arts ninja movie, crossed with spaghetti western, telling astory from the old Kung-Fu TV series, set in that semi-derelict townbuilt in the middle of a pile of sand from Jonah Hex (assuming you werethe other person who saw Jonah Hex), filmed in the style of 300. WithGeoffrey Rush playing the Lee Marvin character from Cat Ballou. KateBosworth channeling Doris Day as Calamity Jane (Ya dang varmint!"), andDanny Huston playing (another) bizarre villain. Oh, and for reasonswhich completely escaped me, there is a circus in town, which isbuilding a fairground (very slowly) in the expectation that this willbring the crowds and rejuvenate the town. Well, they get the crowdsalright - the first crowd is murderous outlaws and the second crowd ismurderous ninjas. And neither of them appears to be there to have funon the carousel.This felt very much as if it was an adaptation of a comic, but I'm notsure it was. It is beautifully photographed - very striking visually -fairly violent, often quite amusing, and always engaging. The warrior -Yang - is played emotionlessly by Dong-gun Jang, a name which may meansomething to you if you follow martial arts movies, but which meansnothing to me.And it's left open for a sequel. I'd happily go to a sequel, I quiteenjoyed this strange film.

Scott Eriksson 15 May 2012

Rude Awakening

This film is such a mixed bag it is difficult to know where to begin.The filmmakers decided that everything would be on set and filmed witha green screen which lends itself to a dark and visually exciting look,however, the downside of so much emphasis on visual effects is that ittransforms the film into a quasi unbelievable fantasy land. In essenceit sucks the life out of all the characters and makes it look like someanimated video game. The town is a bizarre circus, literally notfiguratively, that makes no sense especially since they just hangaround in circus outfits all the time. To make matters worse, you haveall these characters plopped in a town that is a small street ofrun-down, mostly uninhabited buildings with no homes for any of thetownspeople, huh? What a mess. That said, if you are looking forbeautiful cinematography (visual effects of course) as the backdrop fora martial arts film with some great fight scenes, then not all islost...well sorta.That's because you must endure (and yes it's sleep inducing) the lovestory for the first hour of the film that basically has as much sparkas a wet match...thanks in large part to Jang Dong-Gun's emotionless,monotone acting, he is nothing more than a robotic person deliveringbad one-liners. Paired with Kate Bosworth, who for some reason decideda southern accent went with the old west, the on screen chemistry isnonexistent and their love scene shows nothing to either titillate ormake us believe they have the hots for each other.If that were not bad enough, Dong-Gun's English is so bad thatdelivering his extremely sparse dialog of Arnauld talk makes him soundlike a bad Mr. Miyagi. Hence this also showcases one of the bigproblems in Hollywood; overlooking hundreds of talented Asian-Americanactors for a superstar actor from Asia who just cannot handle anEnglish language Hollywood film. WHY?? Dong-Gun has so few lines in theentire film (were they cut?) it is reasonable to expect a superstaractor to devote the time necessary to perfecting his craft, in thiscase his few English lines, which of course wasn't done. If there isany acting saving grace, it is Danny Huston's stellar performance asthe colonel.If you can bare an hour of "love story" as the producers have promotedthe film as, and some bad acting that goes with it, you can get to somereally fun action scenes. In particular, when the colonel decides tohide in the hotel and Dong-Gun walks up the dark staircase to fight thebandits in the hallway guarding the door...some awesome effects andfighting will jolt you from much of the boredom experienced prior.And just when you think the film might redeem itself, it degrades intoa bad typical ending with horrendous narration by Geoffrey Rush. IfJang Dong-Gun thought this was gonna be his ticket to Hollywood stardomala Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat or Jet Li, he is in for a rude awakeningbecause he does nothing to make himself memorable on screen forAmerican audiences.

15 May 2012

A Korean Ninja Movie.

This review is from: The Warrior's Way (Amazon Instant Video) This is a great Korean made ninja themed movie. It takes place in the 19th century America. The costumes and sets were well done and the acting was good.

gamergamer01 14 May 2012

Move over pirates, because it's cowboys vs. ninja time!

The concept in itself sounds cool. Assassins from the east battleagainst cowboys from the west. With The Warrior's Way, we get the bestof both worlds with likable characters, especially the little baby. Thesetting of the movie is very stylized, and brings you a veryromanticized western. The same can be said about the eastern setting.You can tell that the director loves Sergio Leone and Akira Kurosawamovies. The story of The Warrior's Way is that of an assassin travels to thewest because his clan is after him for not completing his mission, tokill a cute little baby girl (The baby's really cute). The unnamedassassin stops his journey at Lode, a western town filled with circusfolks. But we all know life isn't that easy, as bandits and the ninjaclan finds a way to make the life of the unnamed assassin hard.The action doesn't start until later in the film, since it's focused onthe life of the assassin as he tries to find peace. Once the actionstarts, get ready for a good time, because our hero slices and dicescowboys and ninja alike. Once action sequence had the same style as300, while other actions scenes felt like a live-action anime.With all the gun and swordplay, the true heart of the movie are thecharacters. The movie's able to fill us in on the main characters' backstory and we see why they do what they do. You name it, they all have ahistory, well maybe not random cowboy #43. Kate Bosworth is very sassy,yet sweet and cute. Jang Dong Gun is able to show his humanity subtlyeven though most of the time he's emotionless. Danny Huston's characteris a nasty one, but I'll let you guys watch it to see how nasty he canbe. You can tell that the cast and crew had a fun time making this movie asmuch as I enjoyed watching it, since the movie doesn't take itself tooseriously and has a nice blend of humor and violence. The Warrior's Waybrings the magic of the west and east and mixes in influences fromspaghetti westerns and action anime and jumbles it together to serve ussomething really cool.

eve_dolluk 13 May 2012

Artificial and Dull

Well I turned up at the Multiplex without a clue what to watch and thenext film showing was Warriors Way. I asked the girl at the counterwhat it was about and she said " its like a Chinese martial arts film". Now while I am not a big action fan I have enjoyed many Martial artsfilms and a lot of Chinese films are visually creative and stunning andhave good story lines. The opening was pretty good so I chomped mypopcorn waiting for things to unfold.... which they didn't. Hero killsrival clan but refuses to kill baby girl, his own clan turns againsthim so he runs away to the wild west. He heads to a town where an oldfriend used to live but unfortunately his friend has passed away.OK so far not bad but within 10 minutes you realise the whole thing isfilmed indoors in a studio against blue screen and the backdrops areadded, everything looks artificial so you never believe he is in a realtown. On top of that everyone seems to be wearing fancy dress, many arecircus performers you see but even the normal folk's clothes look wrongsomehow. From here on nothing much happens except the heroines backstory and the introduction of a bad guy plus the ongoing approach ofhis home tribe the sad flutes who have managed to track him down.Most of the characters in the town seem to be retarded, now this ispartly because of ham acting and partly because they are maybe supposedto be a little bit strange.The only believable character is Geoffrey Rush who initially plays adrunk and has little screen time that is mainly for laughs but his roleincreases later on.Kate Bosworth plays the Heroine out for revenge but again acts like sheis one screw loose, there is one part in the middle with some stonesthat just made me cringe and go Ouch Ouch Ouch .......The Lead Don gun Juang, doesn't really say much and did not have muchCharisma. On top of that his action scenes were limited and when theydid happen you didn't know if it was him or just more CGI.The best actor in the film was the baby.By the time the big ending had arrived I was pretty bored and didn'treally care about the characters, except the baby. I then fell asleepabout 6 mins into the end fight scene occasionally waking to see aslice of action and then dozing off again. I think it was a case of whybother watching when i already know whats going to happen and do ireally care. I wouldn't mind but I wasn't even tired.Overall the film looked fake with some bad to ridiculous acting andmeaningless plot and non interesting story line. On top of that theaction was dull and always seemed like it was just going through themotions.Having said that the ending 2 minutes were quite good.I have given it a 4 out of 10 for the occasional bits that kept myinterest but overall it was not great. In fact it was one of the mostlifeless dull action films I have seen in a long time.

12 May 2012

Wonderfuly Weird!!

This review is from: The Warrior's Way (Amazon Instant Video) A sureal love child of spagety westerns and kunge foo flicks, this film is pure excapest joy. Wonderfuly weird in the best sence of the words; break out the popcorn, sit down with your favorite other, and enjoy!No 'spoilers' here, just check it out!

lensta71 12 May 2012

All this negativity for a masterpiece? (not much of a spoiler)

This isn't a ninja movie; only half of one. Kate Bosworth steals theother half of the show with her old-west-gal portrayal. For theunobservant few who somehow missed it, the barely-in-her-teens girl wasshot and forced to watch her father, brother, and mother murdered, inthat order. She spent the remainder of her life plotting revenge uponthe Colonel. To her rescue, comes the 'greatest swordsman in thehistory of the world - ever'. She also receives help from the othercity carnies, a throwback to Clockwork Orange. The city bands togetherand must fight off a gang of cowboy thugs, reminiscent of Tombstone'sClantons, led by the Colonel. The swordsman of few words teaches theobsessed cowgirl to wield a blade and builds a closeness between them.The visuals and effects: great. The blood: great. Cleavage: great. KateBosworth is awesome and has to be the most underrated actresses on thestreets. The ninja on ninja action was great, as was the cowboy onninja. The cinematography was interesting, using sunsets,thunderstorms, snow and ice, and bamboo fields as settings, amongothers. The closeups and sky views, especially during swordplay, weremagnificent. The only complaint I could possibly make was the cheaplooking old west carnival set. It sort of looked like a closed downcarnival covered in dirt. Well, it's better than a romcom, and betterphysical brutality than any of your summer blockbusters. You shouldwant to watch this movie just to see Kate Bosworth sporting a countrytwang. It's worth your two hours spent and then some.

lewiskendell 07 May 2012

I'll be taking a different route.

"You are assassin. All that you love, you will destroy."Interested in seeing Asian superstar Jang Dong-gun staring offmysteriously into the distance? Hearing Kate Bosworth speaking in amystifying "western" accent? Watching Geoffrey Rush slumming it andDanny Huston playing his most comically over-the-top villain, ever? Allin slow motion? If not, then The Warrior's Way offers little else.Â I'm guessing it was intended to be an east-meets-west blend of stylishaction, but it ended up being just a bad movie. The action scenes areho-hum (as well as almost non- existent until the very end and sospecial effects heavy that they almost could have been made with noactors whatsoever), the frequent attempts to add pathos to the storyuniversally fail, and the whole effort just boils down to a dull mess.Â I was ready for The Warrior's Way to be over long before its 100minutes were up. It doesn't even have enough camp value for me torecommend it to people who might be entertained by that kind of thing.Skip it.Â

rawvibes 06 May 2012

Dirty Harry With A Sword

PLEASE DON'T WATCH THIS FILM IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR: A Script, Plot,Intelligent Story, or Oscar nomination material. This film is aboutentertaining and fun. I mean the Best Ninja clan coming from Japan to aghost town with a ex-military Colonel with a disfigured face, plus hisevil posse. What more do you want. Don't analyze the movie. It'simpolite to dissect your dinner at the table. The best warrior of aninja clan is defeated by Yang (Dong-gun Jang) of the other clan,making him the best warrior. Well it turns out the other guy had adaughter who was a few months old. Ordered to kill the entire clan,Yang decides not to take the life of the girl and he heads out west tomeet an old friend. Yang's Clan starts a search for him and the girl.Not knowing where he is they wait until they hear the dead souls fromYang's sword when it is unsheathed. Fun film and time goes by fast.Cast: Dong-gun Jang - Kate Bosworth - Geoffrey Rush - Danny Huston -Tony Cox.

Jon Death 05 May 2012

Can you turn that up to 11?

This movie recaptures the magic that seems to have been lost after theearly 90's. You all remember E.T., The Never Ending Story, The Crow,The Karate Kid and the massive list from this generation that is oversatisfyingly long. Then at some point in the mid 90's, the corporationsseemed to become run by robotic automation and it's well under a dozenfilms per decade that embody the magic of that era.This film has it all and is one for the family if your kids are vergingon teen years. One review claims no substance and I must thoroughlydisagree, it's a very well rounded, evenly spread substance with theaction and characterization so liberal it's spilling over. You keepwanting more, you keep getting more but unlike the open endings of theera we all so long for, I doubt there will ever be a sequel.Unfortunately that's just the way this business now works but, onepriceless gem is most definitely better than none. Well worth the costof owning.

gdallen173 05 May 2012

Painful...

To keep this short and sweet, this movie was not very good....in fact,most aspects of it were painful to watch. The acting, the dialogue, thesoundtrack, the delivery, and most of the first hour or so are justrubbish. Like many people, I was excited to see a visually stunning,kick-ass CGI ninja vs. cowboy romp that didn't take itself tooseriously, which is kind of what I got, but not in a good way. Thisfilm drags along and to be frank, could have been reduced to an hourlong run time. Honestly, the only saving grace of this movie were theaction scenes, which were few and far between and did not deliver onthe level of awesome promised by the trailer. Don't get me wrong, Ithoroughly enjoyed the action while it was on screen, especially acertain dark hallway scene towards the end, but for an R rated ninjaflick i expected a lot more bang and blood for my buck than I got. Thewhole thing just seemed rushed and slapped together trying too hard tobe one of a kind. The writers should seriously learn from theirmistakes on this one. Also, on a side note I expected so much more fromBosworth and was extremely disappointed in her level of acting, whichjust seemed very dumbed down, especially with the bad southern accent.All in all, if your an action junkie and thats all that matters foryou, then enjoy, everyone else, wait for redbox.

Van Roberts 01 May 2012

A Slashing Chop-Socky Shoot'em Up with Ningas and Outlaws Galore!!!

Freshman writer & director Sngmoo Lee pays tribute to thoseEast-meets-West horse opera/samurai adventure epics from the 1970s with"The Warrior's Way," a synthesis of vintage Shaw Brother martial artssagas and violent Spaghetti westerns. The 1970s saw a number of theseoddball oaters where coiffed swordsmen and kung fu masters teamed upwith swift-shooting gunslingers. Some of these memorable mash-ups withAsian warriors and frontier ruffians were Terence Young's "Red Sun"(1971) co-starring Charles Bronson and Toshiro Mifune; AntonioMargheriti's "The Stranger and the Gunfighter" (1974) with Lee VanCleef and Lieh Lo; Mario Caiano's "The Fighting Fists of Shanghai Joe"(1974) with Klaus Kinski and Chen Lee, and Sergio Corbucci's "ShootFirst . . . Ask Questions Later" (1975) Eli Wallach and Tomas Milian.Contemporary audiences probably remember Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson inTom Dey's "Shanghai Noon" (2000) and Takashi Miike's more recent"Sukiyaki Western Django" (2007) with Quentin Tarantino and HideakiItÃ´. Lee's saga teems with gravity-defying ninjas that materializemagically out of thin-air and hordes of plug-ugly gunslingers who looklike they are taking a siesta from the "Mad Max" movies."The Warrior's Way" opens with our hero, Yang (South Korean superstarDong-gun Jang of "Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War"), wiping out anentire clan of swordsmen and ending a 500 year rivalry between the SadFlutes army of assassins and an anonymous enemy clan. Yang emerged fromhis final battle without a scratch and needs only to slay an infantprincess. Before he can carve up the adorable little girl, he feels thepetal of a flower drift down onto his cheek and he experiences a changeof heart. Mind you, Yang has been taught from youth by his wise master,Saddest Flute (Lung Ti of "A Better Tomorrow"),to slash anything toribbons for which he feels the slightest affection. Something about theinfant princess, Baby April (Analin Rudd), alters our pugnaciouswarrior's attitude. Yang embarks on a journey with the child in tow.Most critics compare them to "Lone Wolf and Cub" film franchise, butthe Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan silent classic "The Kid" (1921)where the Little Tramp befriends an abandoned child is moreappropriate. Since Yang and Baby April aren't safe in Asia, they climbaboard a sailing ship to America. Nevertheless, Sad Flute assassinshound Yang every step of the way by . Some of these killers are quiteinconspicuous at first glance, but Yang can spot them just by themurderous vibes that they exude. One such incident occurs at a cafÃ© asa wizened old woman with more wrinkles than a shar pei dog serves themfood and tries to slip a knife out of a scabbard cleverly disguised asa plank in the table. Yang skewers her left eye with matchedchopsticks, torches the cafÃ© and continues on his way. Trouble is thatour hero has left behind clues to his destination and the Sad Flutesfollow. Yang knows that the Sad Flutes are committed to following himto the far corners of the earth, but he also realizes that the onlything that will give away his location is the sound of his swordunsheathed. He decides to look up an old friend named Smiley who hastaken up residence in a western town smack in the middle of nowhere.Running away from violence is easier said than done for ourprotagonist. He winds up in the inauspicious town of Lode. The citizenswelcome Yang and April, but Yang learns that his old friend has died.Smiley operated a laundry, and Yang decides that this might be the bestthing to do to throw his enemy off his scent. Yang meets a cute sexygal, Lynne (Kate Bosworth of "Blue Crush"), and she falls in love withour hero and little April. Unfortunately, like the remote frontiersettlement in Don Siegel's made-for-TV western "Stranger on the Run"with Henry Fonda, the town of Lode suffers from the depredations of aninsanely evil desperado, the Colonel (Danny Huston of "Edge ofDarkness")who rode into the town years before with his army of henchmento rape and pillage. He attacked Lynne when she was much younger butshe retaliated with a skillet of sizzling potatoes that permanentlydisfigured him and drove him out of town. No sooner has Yang arrived in Lode without calling attention to histrue identity than the merciless Colonel and his army of scummy killersarrive. A drunken gunslinger, Ron (Academy Award winning Geoffrey Rushof "Shine"), swears off his cactus juice long enough to wield ahigh-powered rifle to perforate the Colonel's low-down minions whenthey storm the town. Ron's strategy resembles the dynamite slinginglawmen in Howard Hawks' classic "Rio Bravo" where John Wayne shotsticks of dynamite that exploded in the thick of the villains.Predictably, Ron takes his share before Yang slices up the rest withhis razor-sharp sword."The Warrior's Way" features the stoic Korean superstar Dong-gun Jangwho exudes presence as he peers out from beneath his Veronica Lakehairstyle. He wields a samurai saber with the finesse of a chefslashing up a meal. Oddly enough, this dust raiser of a western waslensed in location in Australia with the liberal use of CGI so it has acontrived "Wizard of Oz" staginess that some critics have derided.Nevertheless, Lee displays enviable style as he orchestrates severalultra-violent showd0wns between the heroes and villains. "Lies"cinematographer Woo-Hyung Kim provides visually compelling compositionsgalore that hold your attention. Indeed, Lee and Kim have conjured up avery kinetic piece of blood and gore that should make "The Warrior'sWay" an eventual cult hit on video since audiences aren't turning outin droves to see it. Basically, "The Warrior's Way" is a glorifiedB-movie actioneer brimming with eccentric characters and wholesalebloodshed.

j-jordan80 01 May 2012

I'm not disappointed in the movie, I'm disappointed in IMDb!!

I've always valued the scores at this site, and it only has let me downa couple of times...oh yea the movie...horrible! So I wasn't expecting much from this movie. I like to take movies forwhat they are, and I'll watch these types hoping to find a sleepermovie that was great in it's own way or I go looking to be entertainedand see a good sword fight, I got neither.I watched more entertaining anime, I assume the only reason they referanime is because the action is supposed to be artsy, for a movie that'ssupposed to be about the "BEST SWORDSMAN EVER" there's almost NO ACTUALSWORD FIGHTING. He swings his sword and horrible CGI blood and bodiesfly. Did someone mention "300"? The only thing 300 about this movie isa bunch of ninja's fly out of water and freeze pose in the air.Tasteless racism, want racism? watch Gran Torino (great movie).Stereotypical Asian guy with no expression and speakie Engrish but onlyhas 10 lines in the whole movie. A black midget named "8 ball" (it's aderogatory term for blacks). Kate Bosworth is hot but reminded me of aliving "Jessie" from Toy Story, rooting tooting red head cowgirl.WANT TO SEE A GOOD NINJA MOVIE?!?...watch "ninja assassin", great oldschool ninja ways meets modern guns and society.

SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain 29 April 2012

The Warrior's Way (2010)

An absolute wonderful mishmash of ideas and styles. It doesn't alwayswork, but when it does it is exciting stuff. The film takes martialarts, stylized violence, westerns, and a kind of French Jeunet style. Aswordsman disobeys his clan and runs off to the wild west. Not any wildwest town though, this is "The Paris" of the west. A town trying tolure in tourists by setting up a circus. The film is mostly set-up, andgets bogged down at times by having two separate villains, a band ofbandits and a band of ninjas. I liked the correlation between theromantic interests. One is a girl out to avenge her family, and the manshe falls for is a man that killed a baby girl's entire family. It'sthe thin line between duty and honor that make this work. It also has alot of fun towards the end, with awesome CGI, explosions, and clownsbrandishing guns. A bit of silly fun for those that like ninjas,clowns, and cowboys.

JoeB131 29 April 2012

Enough with the CGI and over the top action sequences

I'm hoping that we soon get through this phase of movie making, becauseit's really making movies awful.The plot line is that the lead assassin for a Chinese clan has wipedout the opposing clan save one small female baby. He flees the countryfor the American Old West, and finds a town of circus freaks who arethemselves being terrorized by some quasi-military types lead by a"Colonel" who is into raping kids.We get a ton of kewl explosions and some gravity-defying Chinese.(Seriously, I work with several Chinese people and have never seen themdefy gravity.) Once in a while they get somewhere near an interestingcharacter relationship or point, but then they have to go back into theexplosions and fighting scenes....The fact the lead actor was mangling his lines in English didn't helpmatters much, either.

monic-balt 27 April 2012

It was good! Don't put too much credit on the negative comments

Seen this a long time ago and just watched it again today. I thought Iwould give my comment for those who haven't seen it. Definitely NOT theworst movie ever. A story about an assassin learning how to love andcare for others.I like this movie a lot. It is what you would expect of a fantasyaction film. The cinematography was great! Although there were somescenes were it was a bit too much, it's not that big a deal. The styleof the film was meant to be fantasy-like.I don't get why people are hating the main character saying "he doesn'ttalk much" and that if he does "he can't say it straight with hisaccent". Well what do you expect? He's an assassin from the east. Helived a life of solitude and was taught not to care for anything oranyone. It will be unnatural for him to be all smiles and chatter andspeak fluent English with American accent.The action scenes were great. Very fluid and dance-like. Yes, the fightbetween the main character and his teacher could have been more. Don'texpect a heavy dose of action because, again, the main point of thefilm is the assassin's journey into finding his humanity. Still, theaction provided are more than enough.I really recommend this film. Anyone who hates it most likely justdidn't understand the message.

johnnyboyz 26 April 2012

While clearly capable of working within certain genre boundaries and with that of green screen, Sngmoo Lee's film is little of what we haven't seen and a lot of what we have.

The Warrior's Way plays like a montage of the better bits out of rathergood films from decades gone by that you've already seen, to the pointthat one's enjoyment of this hodge-podge of a 2010 joint SouthKorean/New Zealand production relies solely as to whether or not you'refamiliar with them. If you are, the film will crawl along to itsstrained conclusion, albeit with some amusing 'bits' here and there asyou tick the proverbial boxes; if you aren't, you will take to the filma whole lot more than I did. The piece is a highly stylised, mostlydevoid of any originality, hybrid of two genres sharing common groundwith that of primary and secondary status; all of it playing out underthis odd canopy of post-Rodriguez/Tarantino homage. It is messy andmostly uninteresting, with an overall politic reading along the linesof warring; fighting and existing for such things can lead only on todestruction and the bringing about of great deals of pain and anguishto yourself and those around you - but damn, it sure as Hell can lookgood in the process.For all the cine-literate indulgences, it is ironic that the filmbegins with a sequence constructed as if straight out of a video game;a swordsman, the film's lead, stands alone in a field in this, 19thCentury China, and is ambushed by a glut of other swordsman beforereacting and dispatching them with consummate ease via an aestheticmost would refer to as "bullet time", even tough little in the way ofbullets are present. Having defeated the henchmen, each clad in theexact same garb as each other, he moves onto the 'boss' of thescenario, as is in the framework to a standard video game level, andeven dispatches him with similar levels of ease. It is then that he isdeclared as something along the lines of "the greatest swordsman tohave lived. Ever." - the inclusion of the "ever" symptomatic of whom itis the film's aimed at; that is to say, those moronic enough to thinkthe inclusion of said word at the end might make for 'cool' reading,and that pillaging the English language in such ways is acceptable.That lead is named Yang (Jang), the top hit-man with a clan of swordedwarriors whose mission to vanquish the lands of their enemies reaches ascreeching halt when their boy cannot kill the remaining member in theform of a baby infant. Taking off with it through some bamboo fieldswhilst chased by his own out of failure to carry out orders, in what isa sequence lifted straight out of 2004's House of Flying Daggers withthe presence of those old Lone Wolf and Cub films hovering over it all,he travels abroad and hides out in a ramshackle town in the AmericanOld West hoping to build a new life away from murder. If he releaseshis sword from the scabbard, it will be to kill; but these newfoundenemies will "hear" him do so: the status quo is mutual. Once there, hemeets and comes to love young Lynn (Bosworth); a knife thrower whompractises on a lowly, simplistic level by herself as Yang firstsaunters into town but will grow. She is a person with a sordidback-story of murder and terror; a back-story of which was instigatedby a still-active Confederate Colonol played by Danny Huston, asuitably nasty; suitably sadistic old coot sporting a Gerard ButlerPhantom of the Opera-style look complete with a low, gravelly voice inthe mould of Donald Sutherland who, like in most of these sorts offilms, is horrifically scarred in some way.Mingling about is Geoffrey Rush's town drunk Ron, a character whom isbarely anywhere at all for the first hour, but because it's GeoffreyRush and he feels out of place in this sort of film, we sense must playa larger part at some point before predictably turning up later on asthings reach a crescendo. His character has been a hardened alcoholicfor many years, now successfully kicking the habit, plucking a sniperrifle off of the shelves of fate and instantly triggering one'sclinical form of old back again Â yeah, right. Feeding off of whatRodriguez did with Sin City, the film relies heavily on green screenedbackgrounds acting as vistas to all of this cranked up violence andaction unfolding amidst archetypes; the constant paying of homage tothe works of Morricone making it insulting to credit a certain JavierNavarrete as the composer and, like most oft-written Tarantino films,the thing ends with some kind of Mexican standoff following theintegration of two or more separate factions hitting one another headon Â the chaos of the final act calling to mind that of From Dusk tillDawn, as a slam bang finale of violence arrives, during which theaforementioned Colonol antagonist has suddenly acquired skills in swordplay. It even finds room for a composition straight out of 1992's HardBoiled.It breaks down into a very simple equation, that is to say if one hasseen mostly any Hollywood western produced between 1935 and 1960, onewill not find anything in Sngmoo Lee's directed, Peter Jackson fundedpiece that is particularly new; if one has seen either Kung-fu Hustle,or heard any of the music from Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns, oreven watched any of those recent, elegant Chinese films along the linesof Curse of the Golden Flower, then one has seen mostly everything thatmakes The Warriror's Way stick out as the aesthetically stately orviscerally exciting film that it might be. Devoid of originality, andarriving with a gloomy, heavy air about proceedings that doesn'tcompliment the pastiche ridden content in a way the similarly made TheGood, the Bad, the Weird did not fall foul of, The Warrior's Way is atrite and ambling effort.

grant-jury 26 April 2012

Visually stunning and great trip

This IS a fun movie, don't let any one tell you otherwise, it takes theviewer on a multi-paced journey. One moment the action is so franticand franetic your left thinking 'what just happened?? ... then the nextmoment your lulled into the surreal landscape, wonderful costumes andexcellent soundtrack, just a little on the soundtrack at most times themusic matched perfectly and beautifully to the screen then other timesthe music formed an almost comical juxtaposition.. great stuff!!...Then BANG your dragged back from all the serenity into a "kill Bill"stylised gore fest... its genere is best described as Hong Kong "fightby wire" martial arts meets spaghetti western meets Tarentino meets"300" All in all this makes a nicely blended, tough dude protects thegirl kills lots of other bad guys, "all for redemption" movie ..Nothing new in overall plot except the nice twists that keep u guessingand going WOW,, thats cool and different. In summary.. .your sense ofReality is best left parked at the door .. just watch the the greatfilm/CG imagery, fantastic costumes and a have fun time,,, sit back andenjoy,,

trash_sisi 25 April 2012

Bloody awesome!!!

What will you get when you combine John Woo and Tarantino? One BLOODYAWESOME movie! It is bloody without going overboard, and surprisinglyawesome. The story and the whole movie feel like a fairy tale, withoutbeing cheesy. I wish they left some of the deleted scenes in the movie. Like the onewhen all of the town people were fighting the bad guys... It would havebrought a different perspective on the role of the "little guys". All in all, we didn't expect such an entertaining film. It has some ofthe cockiness of "Shoot'em Up", blended with some Japanese coolness andcharm. Highly recommend! You will definitely rewind some of the scenes,and we will surely watch it again!

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