grandmastersik Sigh, where to begin with this mess? American films about ninja are never good, but I thought that since Scott Adkins was in it, it was worth checking out.Unfortunately, the ludicrous beginning only set the scene for the badness to come, as clichés gave way to thoroughly inept acting and comic-esque villains who were infinitely more cheesy than intimidating.Honestly struggling not to turn it off after 10 minutes, I somehow lasted 30 until the pain got the better of me and I thought I owed it to myself, as a decent human being, to watch something else instead.Nut shell: if you want martial arts, action, suspense or even tolerable acting, check out something else.

Drago_Head_Tilt Scott Adkins (a charisma vacumn) stars as an orphan raised by the Koga Ninja clan in Japan. You'll think Godfrey Ho is back and working for Nu Image as good ninja Adkins must fight bad ninja Tsuyoshi Ihara (following Sho Kosugi's career path?) in New York (obviously sets in Bulgaria). Ihara is working for corporate cult Illuminati types, and wants to get his hands on some sacred ninja weapons. Mika Hijii (from ALIEN VS. NINJA) is wasted as the love interest who also studied ninjitsu, but needs to be rescued by Adkins all the time instead of kicking ass. Competent in terms of action choreography, but why a kids movie plot with adult-orientated graphic CGI bloodlettting? With Todd Jensen.

ebiros2 This is better than any other US made ninja movie I've seen so far. The depiction of the Japanese culture is very authentic, although no such school of ninja really exists, the scenery, the outfit all are what students of kobudo (ancient martial arts) actually wears in their dojos.The quality the producer and the director put into this movie shows. Casting is good, and we see A list Japanese actor Tsuyoshi Ihara playing the antagonist in this movie. The movie starts off in Japan, and ends in the US. Transition is believable, and right actors are placed at the right places. This is not like the "Fast and Furious Tokyo Drift" where the actors are all Asian Americans, and shot in LA. Everything fits in, and writer and the director shows their understanding of this genre.Outstandingly well made movie, this is one movie that's worth watching.

KineticSeoul This really is a below average ninja movie, from the dialogue to the acting to the action, almost everything is just way too cheesy and lame. In fact it's sort of like watching a slightly more violent version of Power Rangers. The movie has some similarities of "Ninja Assassin", the ninja clan is sort of similar, so is the rivalry and the love interest aspect of it. But unlike "Ninja Assassin" where the ninja that goes rogue is the hero, in this one the ninja that goes rogue is the main villain and the ninja clan are the good guys. The beginning scene made this movie seem like it has potential, but as soon as it bring some cult and cult leader in the whole movie went to trash. Almost nothing about this movie made any sense and there is just way too many noticeable plot holes. The main reason I decided to watch this was because I enjoyed "Undisputed 2 and 3" and was entertained by Scott Adkins performance, mainly fighting choreography in those movies. But in this one the fighting choreography is just...eh. This isn't a terrible ninja movie, but there is a lot of flaws and the script is just laughable at times. None of the characters are even remotely interesting and didn't even seem like ninjas but cheap imitations of them. They don't even really fight like ninjas either, so for a ninja movie this is barely passable.4.3/10