kxyang Violent, great soundtrack, and full of action.This movie has a good story This movie has good music This movie is bloody as hell This movie has an evil villain This movie has emotion This movie has a sexy asian woman lead This movie is awesome

Angelus2 Azumi is trained to become an assassin, however, as she begin to question her path in life, her enemies are not far behind.I have had friends rave about this samurai film, and according to one particular friend, it was the movie that immortalised the long forgotten 'Samurai' genre, but I found this film to be quite disappointing.The plot was very minimal, with no real character development and the script itself was very weak, the actors chosen to play their respected roles, simply did not do the trick; Aya Ueto, is awful as the warrior without fear, I liked her better in 'Attention Please!'..Now, if the plot, characters, script is terrible, surely the action will make up for it...No...The action is simply awful, I liked the occasional one slice kill, but it just seems to be rushed and all a big catastrophe.

skandaluk-1 Im sure this will raise a few eyebrows but after watching Azumi i felt compelled to comment.I have to say after watching Versus a few years ago i was very keen to see this movie especially after reading reviews and seeing that the directors die-hard fans preferred this film over versus, how disappointed was i! I felt the film dragged on far too long for around an hr or so, give or take 20 mins, the action scenes looked forced and under budget, plus the story had no real depth or meaning leaving me bored and twiddling my thumbs a good few times throughout the film.Not to say that on paper this isn't a good film because on paper, it very nearly is! The direction was well above average, Ryuhei Kitamura has a great eye for a shot, beautiful cinematography with some scenes that left me stunned, his camera work was amazing and in parts of the film i was truly taken a-back to see a live action film that looked more of an anime than an anime converted to live action. Also i must mention that the script took me by surprise a few times, the master asking his pupils to kill their own team-mate was a fine example of this. But this still cant make up for the empty feeling Azumi left me with. Countless times i was looking at the timer on the DVD player to see how long was left to go. If the director had made an hr and half film with this concept he may have been on to a winner. As it happens Azumi was close to 2 and a half hrs.......All in all i wont be recommending this film to any of my friends as i have done with countless films from Asian cinema. I mean this movie isn't bad, this movie isn't great, maybe im let down by Azumi more than anything else. But one thing is certain though, that spark, that magic, that certain something that makes you call up someone the minute the credits are rolling, isn't.Peace

devaklon this movie was absolutely terrible, it reminded me of a bad episode of power rangers extended to the length of a full movie with gore. it lacked a coherent story, and good acting. the camera angles were all messed up with the worst being a 360 degree pan around Azumi while she was fighting an insane bad guy with absolutely no back story except for the fact that his sword had no hand-guard because he didn't defend. characters randomly resurrect from the dead. the wire work is obvious and so is the green screen used in the first also the movie moves along at a snails pace which is really aggravating to see in a movie that is supposed to be action packed.