Raining Ninjas

Expect high octane hand to hand combat with ample servings of blood and gore – possibly the first movie that is singularly focused on the Ninja for a while (leaving aside cameos in Kill Bill and Batman Begins) in Ninja Assassin. The story is stereotypical – a trainingground for Ninja assassins tucked away somewhere, a set of orphans in captivity being trained to be the soldiers of one of the nine ninja clans. Protagonist Raizu (Rain) loses love and questions the autocratic ways of the master, and leaves the clan - a battle with the clan ensues in Germany (why Germany??) and later spills over to the homestead. An eminently watchable no-holds-barred action movie with some brilliant combat sequences and consistently good cinematography

14/20