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Watch: Ninja Assassin 2009 123movies, Full Movie Online – Trained since childhood to be a lethal killer, Raizo has since turned his back on the Ozunu clan that raised him and now seeks revenge for their heartless murders. Teaming up with Europol investigator Mika, Raizo steadily butchers his enemies while inching ever closer to the long-awaited bloody reunion with his former master..
Plot: Ninja Assassin follows Raizo, one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan, a secret society whose very existence is considered a myth. But haunted by the merciless execution of his friend by the Clan, Raizo breaks free from them and vanishes. Now he waits, preparing to exact his revenge.
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Ratings:

	6.3/10 Votes: 72,784
	26% | RottenTomatoes
	34/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1241 Popularity: 71.524 | TMDB

Reviews:

Wicked weapons, killer moves and Bloody battles at its all-time Best.
If the Wachowski brothers’ Speed Racer was the ultimate tribute to family friendly classic cartoons, Ninja Assassin is the ultimate tribute to 80s martial arts B movies like “Enter the Ninja”, video games like “Ninja Gaiden” and the Ultra-violent anime genre titles like Ninja Scroll.(Already noticed the name “ninja” in all the titles mentioned? well, what a coincidence!). It is violent, it is bloody and packed to the gills with action. Every thing else ends up playing second fiddle to the fights.

Unfortunately, “every else” also includes the story which is, a hodgepodge of very familiar elements. Raizo (played by Korean star Rain) is an orphan raised by a cruel master Lord Ozunu(played by Sho Kosugi, famous for his starring roles in, what else, 80s ninja movies like “Enter the ninja”.) to be part of a secret clan of ninjas that have been responsible for countless assassinations over the centuries. Through a series of flashbacks (intercut with scenes of a half naked hunky Rain training with some vicious looking weapons), Raizo’s tragic story is fleshed out. We see his tormented childhood days as a ninja trainee; his only emotional refuge, an orphan girl who, like Raizo, is part of the clan. One day, his friend tries to escape from the harsh ninja way of life and is executed, prompting a change of heart in Raizo who eventually betrays his clan after a narrowly botched mission. Now on the run, hunted by both his former comrades and a special international task force, Raizo finds an unlikely ally in the form of Mika Coretti, a Europol agent who is close to exposing the secret existence of the Ninjas and hence targeted for assassination.

Simply put, the unoriginal storyline is highly predictable and filled with B movie clichés from stem to stern. It is a definite step down from the philosophical Matrix trilogy or the sophisticated and political V for Vendetta.

Characters are, at best, cardboard cut outs and at worse painfully bland. None of them come across as emotionally engaging. Raizo is especially underdeveloped despite being the main character. His internal motives for his betrayal are never fully explored and the cheesy romance bit, not to mention the whole big about “the heart’ feels like a tacked-on afterthought. The acting is passable; nothing better than the level of a TV series, but the script manages to have a couple of witty lines of dialog.

Though Ninja Assassin is no work of storytelling perfection, it delivers what it promises: lots of fights and lots of violence. Limbs are lobbed off, stomachs are split open and heads are busted as the movie slashes its way from one fight scene to the next, delivering scenes of wicked weapons and bloody carnage that make even Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre look like a tame PG film. The fight choreography is well executed with a good mix of slow motion and frantic close-ups. Special effects and CGI are used to effectively give the movie a very comic book-like feel (not surprising since the Wachowski brothers are avid comic fans and one of the screenplay writers is also a comic book writer). Thankfully some erratic camera work (especially during the scene where Raizo is being chased through a busy street) does not feel distracting but enhances the frantic and lightning fast pace of the fights. Blood flows like rivers as Raizo proceeds to disembowel enemies en masse; definitely not for the squeamish.

On a whole, Ninja Assassin feels like a hack-and-slash video game come to life from the first skirmish to the climatic showdown involving modern day special forces taking on an army of ninja warriors . Some cheesy bits here and there require a certain suspension of disbelief but the film’s portrayal of ninjas in general is gritty and realistic yet preserves their mysterious and legendary status. It is refreshing too to see that Raizo is not some invincible killing machine as he does tire and he does take his fair share of hits, even going down a couple of times.

Forget Naruto and all those brightly dressed, magic power spewing ninjas of recent anime. Ninja Assassin is the butt-kicking, face slashing answer to all that. A respectable re-imaging of a dated genre and 99 minutes of non-stop violent escapism once you look past its narrative flaws.

Bloody good fun.
Realism and ninjas go together like oil and water, so it matters not a jot that Ninja Assassin consistently defies the laws of physics and nature with extremely preposterous action and invincible warriors, all the while driving its weak narrative forward with unbelievable character arcs, amazing coincidence and a general lack of respect for logic: all that really matters is that there are plenty of mean dudes in ninja outfits creeping, flipping, and whirling out of the darkness to dispense pain and suffering via a nifty selection of super sharp weaponry… and boy, does Ninja Assassin deliver in that respect!!!

Produced by, amongst others, Joel Silver, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, the film is packed to the rafters with impressively choreographed, hyper kinetic, CGI enhanced fight scenes, as renegade ninja Raizo (Rain) battles for his life against his brethren, who are more than a mite miffed that he has betrayed their clan. With director James McTeigue wasting no opportunity to exuberantly paint the screen with bright red splashes of cartoonish gore, those eager for a relentlessly brutal, gore drenched piece of popcorn cinema should be more than satisfied.

7.5/10 rounded up to 8 for IMDb.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 39 min (99 min)
Budget 40000000
Revenue 61601280
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Thriller
Director James McTeigue
Writer Matthew Sand, J. Michael Straczynski
Actors Rain, Rick Yune, Naomie Harris
Country Germany, United States, France
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital, SDDS, DTS
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arricam LT, Zeiss Master Prime Lenses, Arricam ST, Zeiss Master Prime Lenses, Arriflex 235, Zeiss Master Prime Lenses, Arriflex 435 ES, Zeiss Master Prime Lenses
Laboratory Arri Schwarzfilm, Berlin, Germany (dailies), Pacific Title & Art Studio, Hollywood (CA), USA (digital intermediate), Technicolor, Hollywood (CA), USA
Film Length 2,711 m
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic), D-Cinema