An average movie

Before this movie was released, there was a pretty good buzz about it. Eventually, it turned out to be a flop (it seems that the Wachowskis can’t get a break nowadays) but since it looked pretty badass, I still wanted to check it out. Eventually, even though the concept really had some potential, I thought the whole thing was actually quite underwhelming. Yes, there are some nice action scenes but because those Ninjas work mostly at night or in the shadows, you barely see a damned thing and the story was really weak. I mean, it starts basically with 3 storylines (Raizo as a kid training, Raizo as an adult training and the investigation by Naomi Harris). I understand that the whole investigation thing was to give the proceedings a more grounded setting but, man, that was really tedious. And, honestly, you spend a good chunk of the movie watching the guy training. The only thing which was remotely interesting was the conflict between Raizo and his trainer but, apart from that, I thought that the whole thing was pretty boring. Personally, even though I did like ‘V for Vendetta’, I thought it was vastly overrated and this movie was a huge step backward for McTeigue and the Wachowskis. To conclude, even though it could have been pretty awesome, I thought it was actually pretty weak and I don’t think it is really worth a look.

5/10