The movie adaptation follows Raizo (Rain), a ninja who was kidnapped as a child by an ancient clan that trained him and other orphans to become highly skilled killers.

"Ninja Assassin," directed by James McTeigue, posits that there are nine clans of deadly, uh, ninja assassins, each made up of warriors trained since childhood in the ancient art of slicing dudes ...

In “Ninja Assassin,” which is numbingly gory when it isn’t just plain numbing, the assassin Raizo, played by Korean pop star and budding actor Rain, rains down on his interchangeable ...

Raizo’s paternal archenemy is played by Shô Kosugi, a veteran of some terrible ninja movies of the 1980s, which is a fitting tribute to the bar director James McTeague has set for himself.

'Ninja Assassin' boring, gory, dull By By Mick Lasalle Hearst Newspapers Nov 26, 2009 In this film publicity image released by Warner Bros., Rain stars as Raizo in a scene from the film "Ninja ...

Raizo somehow finds Mika in Berlin and the two dodge flying blades and other pointy weapons on their way to a final confrontation with the clan's raspy-voiced father figure, Ozunu (Sho Kosugi ...

Ninja Assassin Production: A Warner Bros. release, presented in association with Legendary Pictures, Dark Castle Entertainment, of a Silver Pictures production, in association with Anarchos Prods ...

“Ninja Assassin” has all the makings of a great action movie, but squanders its potential with jumbled action scenes, a dull hero and a fixation on gore. Seeing someone’s insides is par for the course ...

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To say “Ninja Assassin” is “so bad it’s funny” is to misunderstand the extent to which this violent and confused baboon of a movie is “bad.” ...

In Japan, where the blades are shiny and sharp and if the fake blood isn’t staining the lens, you’re not trying hard enough, there’s a rich tradition of sword-and-splatter pictures. That’s ...

When considering the meager merits of the bone-snapping, blood-splattered “Ninja Assassin,” it’s best to remember the words of John Goodman’s PC-challenged character in “The Big Lebowski”: “The man in ...