Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon!
Get us in your inbox
Sign up to our newsletter for the latest and greatest from your city and beyond
By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions.
Awesome, you're subscribed!
Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon!
By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions.
Awesome, you're subscribed!
Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon!
By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions.
With a title that so brazenly lunges for the hokum jugular, this should have been a claret-soaked cakewalk for Wachowski cohort James McTeigue. Instead, we’re lumbered with a garish and poorly filmed chop-socky frolic that makes about as much sense as an Escher painting viewed through Vaseline-smudged Ray-Bans. The ‘ninja’ of the title is coiffed, toned and oiled lone gun Raizo (unconvincing South Korean pop sensation Rain, below) who becomes a target for government spies. Aside from the flashbacks detailing his years of training in a mountain commune, the film takes place in disused warehouses and offices in – for some reason – Berlin. The supporting cast – including Naomie Harris with a creaky Yank drawl – are little more than expositionary cyphers, and by the time you get to an army of tooled-up foot soldiers being shredded to mincemeat in a hail of death stars, you’ll be too numbed with boredom to care.
Release Details
Rated:18
Release date:Friday 22 January 2010
Duration:99 mins
Cast and crew
Director:James McTeigue
Cast:
Rain
Naomie Harris
Sung Kang
Ben Miles
Advertising
Been there, done that? Think again, my friend.
By entering your email address you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and consent to receive emails from Time Out about news, events, offers and partner promotions.
🙌 Awesome, you're subscribed!
Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon!