Comments on: Review: Ninja Assassin

By: Marina Antunes

Marina Antunes — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:47:07 +0000

You and I are in the same boat John. I didn’t hate it, it was fine for a one time watch but that’s it. No need to see again. Ever.

And good call on the poster Kurt – definitely some subtext there.

All that said, Rain is pretty awesome.

By: swarez

swarez — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:31:07 +0000

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:01:21 +0000

The best movie critic in the world used 5, so that is my preferred scale I think. Actually my preferred scale is no scale. But 6 is what everybody is doing nowadays so when the editors decided to force scales on us, they said out of 6.

By: Kurt

Kurt — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:00:54 +0000

It’s funny, but I hate the (out of 5 scale) in fact I pretty much dislike the whole assign a number thing. It was invented for print media, by editors and ad people And it is kind of unnecessary when reviews are so short these days anyway.

If I had to pick the scale should be out of 4. Or even 3 is not too bad (as in Bad Good Great)

By: Rusty James

Rusty James — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:31:05 +0000

@ 6 is the highest. 1 is the lowest. It’s commonly used here.

well then you should write your parlimentary officer or whatever. 6 doesn’t even divide into a hundred! Each star is 16.66666666667% That’s fucking weak!
Do danes have 6 fingers or somthing? Seriously, you may as well just assign each movie a random animal sound.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:41:50 +0000

6 is the highest. 1 is the lowest. It’s commonly used here.

By: Rusty James

Rusty James — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:32:21 +0000

4 out of 6? what the fuck kind of scale is that?

By: Henrik

Henrik — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:08:55 +0000

I gave this a 4/6. I thought it was worthy of a title like Ninja Assassin, just a stupid movie about ninjas vs. ninjas, ninjas vs. military etc.

By: Kurt Halfyard

Kurt Halfyard — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:23:31 +0000

Did they cut the eyes off the poster to hide that the lead character was Korean (or in broader terms, Asian)?

By: John Allison

John Allison — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:12:41 +0000

I think it comes down to the fact that Hollywood sees martial arts as style and look over substance. I see martial arts films as substance over style. I couldn’t care less about the stuntmen looking cool. I want to see them actually hurting each other.

By: Goon

Goon — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:04:55 +0000

well at least the poster is pretty awesome