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It’s all a little too whiz-bang, but James McTeigue’s Ninja Assassin is nevertheless a great hour-and-a-half for action fans steeped in cartoon-inspired violence. McTeigue (V for Vendetta) appears to be midway through a larger story, so it’s possible this might strike you as parts one and two of a series, and it may have been better served that way.
Still, there’s a lack of good, fun, death-defying (and possibly depth-defying) martial arts movies in American theaters, and the few things that Ninja Assassin gets wrong are ultimately forgivable.
Ninjas have enjoyed a mysterious ride through history for hundreds of years. McTeigue’s film plays on that mythology to introduce a theory that the warriors adapted over time from feudal assassins to modern ones, employed by governments and the enterprising around the world to carry out contract killings for the current price of 100 pounds of gold.
Based on the slaughterhouses the ninja seem to leave behind following their killings, it’s a wonder the assembled constabularies haven’t put the pieces – literal and figurative – together yet. Mob killings are usually gun shots, government killings tend to look accidental, but there’s no mistaking a ninja kill for anything else. Vivisected bodies, blood-splattered walls, and a surprising lack of inefficiency, given the killers’ reputation for stealth.
An investigator for Eurpol (Naomie Harris) finally works it out, however, and begins to link ninjas with political and corporate assassinations stretching back a century or more. Her current case leads her to Raizo (Rain), a rogue member of the Ozunu clan who is out to topple his former master (legendary martial arts actor Sho Kosugi). Obviously, these two threads overlap in a major way.
Raizo’s backstory is intertwined with the Europol investigation, and that’s where the elements of Ninja Assassin begin to feel as though they’re independent stories that don’t need to share screen time. It isn’t ineffective, exactly, but it’s doubtful too much of the business generated by this film will stem from a desire to watch a police procedural set in Berlin. The origin story has our attention, and it should. Now if only there was more of it.
Rain is a South Korean actor and dancer who, like Jason Scott Lee in the Bruce Lee bio-pic, Dragon, is not a martial artist by trade. That means there’s a little bit of clever hiding to be done by McTeigue to avoid any possible lapses in the hand-to-hand combat. Unlike a classic Jackie Chan or Tony Jaa movie, Ninja Assassin is loaded with close-ups, effects, and relatively short fight scenes.
In that respect, Ninja Assassin loses some of its authenticity and verges more towards a straight action flick than a true martial arts film. That isn’t a complaint as much as an observation; if you want to see 15-minute fights and stunts that look too real to be fake, please watch Jaa’s Ong Bak or The Protector for recent examples.
But Rain is believably stoic, an expressionless coldness beaten into Raizo from a young age. Some of those scenes, with a child caned by his sensei, are more difficult to watch than heads being cut in half. But they’re more necessary than the police investigation, which leads ultimately to a poorly conceived and executed shoot-out. Really? A ninja movie that ends with a scene straight out of the invasion of Branch Davidian compound? Something’s not right there.
However, Ninja Assassin (2009) is fun enough that you can kind of overlook the ending. Kind of. The real story and the hero do deserve better, though.
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