i like scott adkins’ laidback fei long 360 gyro. reminds me of those pop snapu swipes. i havent seen any tricksters do the laidback fei long 360 gyro. many of us dont tend to like to land on your backs wushu style. he calls that kick that him and tony jaa do so well the “guyver kick.” other than the “guyver kick” gyro, im not a huge fan of his other tricks. they are solid though so i respect that. i also liked the leg throw he did at the end of the wolverine video. [media=youtube]l_OHCjZnT4A[/media] would have been nice in the first part of the wolvie deadpool fight.
hopefully he pulls out that guyver kick gyro in this new film.
honestly i think you want scott adkins ninja movie, from the clips ive seen they did actually do the research on the stuff and looks like its what ur lookin for in a ninja movie.
Like I said, Shinobi is probably the best ninja movie I’ve seen so far, my connection ain’t great atm, but I’ll look at what ya’ll named off. But I’m thinkin they won’t pass with N/A. It’ll be great on action I figure (Besides the ever-so-common Bullet timing), besides that, the story might strike a few, but it’ll be good only to DL. I’m gonnas research more on this Hattori Hanzo one I heard little about.
not really a ninja movie, but features on of the baddest ninjas EVER. the movie, heroes of the east, is not only one of the best kung fu flix, but also has the uncle from jet li fist of legend, who plays a ninja. god damn that movie is the shit.
oh and somebody mentioned chinese super ninjas. lol @ that movie. that movie is like a syncronized ballet…with sharp ass blade and spears.
fuck the white dude, im still pissed off at that other white guy with the kun fu series. it should have been bruce damn it. also hollywood is gay, nothing new really. fuck em.
edit: ninja in the dragons den was one of my favorites as a kid. damn good movie, back then. havent seen it in…damn.
I guess the closest Americans will get to a ninja movie will be ol’ bats & the League of Shadows… I was hopin for not another white ninja. I suppose I still give it a chance. Please fuckin be good.
i liked the beginning of the movie. “ninja ninja ninja”. WHAP, FACE CUT IN HALF. GOOD STUFF
in reference to the plot. i have literally watched this movie over ten times, and im still like, huh. it would have been better if after raizo’s betrayal and serious wounds he encountered, he disappears for a while, which would be explained, and shown, that he is spending that time training to inevitably get his own revenge, and revenge for his little love interest.
would have had it explained very briefly that only people of a certain rank actually know the location of the temple, and all trainees when abducted are shown to have their eyes and ears covered when being taken to the temple to train, and part of the training is that before and after every mission they take some medicine that knocks them out for a bit until the destination is reached, where they wake up in perfect condition ready to do the job. that would only have to be explained once, and not reinforced a lot, but at least enough to get the point across that, no, you cant just come back anytime you want if you escape, and try to get revenge or rat out our location.
my story would have started with raizo doing his own personal hits on rich people in order to get the cash to fund hiring a fake hit or something in order to capture like the captain of that hit squad to use a technique he had been developing (some ninja magic shit) that he can get the location out of him, and then be able to get his revenge.
now in the midst of raizo’s own revenge plot is where i would have had him randomly get caught up with the female researcher sticking her head where it doesnt belong, and getting caught up. at that point it would have kinda played out like blade, where raizo takes care of her, seeing something in her that reminds him of his lil girlfriend that got murked. then in the midst of him trying to get her the fuck outta deep shit with the ninja clan that still wants him dead, and is now aware of her presence, she ends up kidnapped and setup as bait so the clan can guarantee to rid themselves of this stray who has left their side.
it had a nice blend of “realism” and “mystical” elements in it that i liked. but i feel like for once, kick it old school, dont be afraid to get a lil more crazy with it with the ninja powers. i guess the only problem with that is, in a movie only an hour and a half long, it can become to much shit, and then you have the audience like, “if this nigga can blow fire balls out his mouth whenever he wants, why is he using a sword”, and all that shit. but there is always a way to balance that by creating some fake limitation on the user, or the fact that he has to use certain mudras to do that, and well, in a fight vs ten ninjas, he may not have the time. so there is a way, and i would like to see hollywood go more mystical if more ninja shit pops up in the future. there is so much interesting shit you can do with ninjas.
throwing star shit was awesome. fights were cool. weapons were cool. shadow walking stuff was cool.
for a man who should have most likely been the most evilest person getting trained, raizo sure did end up soft pretty quickly. it kinda just didnt add up. at least a quick 5 minute flashback into before he got taken away and trained, there was a reason he was so angry, and still had a lot of love hiding deep down, and that love is what you now see him using to fuel his fire, on top of being a bad ass fearless ninja.
outfits were solid, nice and basic
not to spoil it, but a man doing ninjutsu as long has his teacher, and doing massive work on raizo before he got fucked up, should have gotten away free to setup a nice part 2, or just fucked up a little. i never buy the whole, im destroying you, and im your master with decades more experience, but oh shit you got mad, now im dead, stuff that hollywood does. its old man
overall, i like the movie. i watch it a lot. it has interesting stuff in it. nice training scenes, and philosophical points, but it was slightly wasted by fuckers with no imagination. i mean, you can read a few mangas, and watch a little anime, and drop a better script then that, with better philosophy, fights, mysticism, ect… but eh, it was straight. i enjoyed it for what it is, but im weary for anything in the future like it. hence why people bootleg the fuck out of movies. they suck. lol