Ninja Assassin - And now for something completely violent

Once Monty Python's Flying Circus did a sketch where many people ended up bleeding to death from freak accidents which naturally involved gallons and gallons of fake blood. It was great in its sheer over-the-topness. Ninja Assassin follows the same path. Only this one is serious. Sort of.

It's about - surprisingly - a ninja assassin, who's on the run from both Interpol and his former teacher/clan/whatever. In fact, plot and storylines kind of take a backseat. What you have here is a bunch on ninjas hacking each other to death as violently and as bloodily as possible.

The fight scenes are great. The story is pretty weak, but what are you expecting from a film called Ninja Assassin? If you're not going to like it it's because there isn't much of a story. If, however, you just want to see some cool fight scenes and slashing people to death and the odd shower of throwing stars which fly faster than bullets, then this is the one for you.

The only way ninjas don't die here is by being impaled on a piano's keyboard (you'll have to be a `Python' to get that one!).

7/10 if I woke up on Groundhog Day and had to watch this again, I could live with that