Ninja Assassin....FTW!

Yes.

Alright, let's break this ish DOWN!

The plot was used- BUT- when ninjas are involved, you can't go wrong. Seriously. You ever seen Surf Ninjas [yes, the link takes you to part 1 of 9 of the movie- YOU OWE ME]? Easily one of the worst movies made, but it's still one of my favorites.
In any case, the main ninja dude (played by S. Korean pop sensation Rain) is kidnapped as a child and trained to be a merciless killer by an ancient "merciless-killer-ninja-assassin-clan", but after his first real mission, he realizes that everything up to that point was everything he wasn't. So what is a merciless killer with a heart do? That's easy-

KILL EVERYONE

...or, at least everyone in the clan, putting an end to the craziness that is being a Ninja Assassin.

Here are the things I appreciate in the movie:

1. Gratuitous amounts of RIDICULOUSLY intense and awesome action scenes
2. Copious amounts of shadow-people-ninja-men
   
3. Appropriate computer simulated weaponry (not abused like in some ninja flicks)
4. Rain's surprisingly good-grip on being a badass, but not the cocky, douchey type of badass.
5. The director's take on flashbacks and memories
6. The "what-the-heck?!" moment when ish gets real (you know what I'm talking about, Cameron)
7. How the action did.not.STOP...once it got started
8. The main character's name--is RAIN.
   

Things I did not like:

1. There was a sh*t ton of mondo-fake looking blood, but I can forgive it because of how awesome it was drawn aka "why it happened".
2. Rain didn't really use the SUHWEEET ninja stars as much as I desperately wanted him to.
   

The movie starts strong, continues even stronger, and ends as you want it to.
It is all that is man when it comes to ninja gore, wicked action scenes, and South Korean pop stars turned NINJA ASSASSIN!

Overall: the movie kicked-ass and if you don't see it, go crawl under a rock and stay there, because you don't deserve to see the glory that is cinema.

Ninja Assassin- 4.5 High-Fives.
[Starring Rain, Rick Yune, Sho Kosugi]


Coming up next blog: Ninja Assassin vs. The Expendables!!

Another "About Damn Time" Moment

Honestly, here are my thoughts:

• The universe is just too MASSIVE for the human race to be the only sentient race and those who deny this are either extremely naiive or too religious (in-betweens included)
• We may not have substantial proof readily available to the public of extraterrestrials, but the word was invented for a reason- to slightly explain the unexplainable. You might believe the 'government invented it' or something, but that is my opinion.
• What about Kevin, Alan Godfrey, Herbert Schirmer, and countless others? They have stories! I also have stories of camping when I was younger and I know it happened because I was there!
• I think the idea of aliens is prettttty sweet.
• Except if they want to kill all of us.

I mean, seriously, how AWESOME would it be if there were tons of cantinas and bars in the world like that of Star Wars' Tatooine!?! Aliens and humans alike playing music, getting drunk, and lightsabering each others hands' off! IT'D BE RIDICULOUSLY RAD-TASTIC!

I bring this up because of the events in Zhejiang's provincial capital Hangzhou where a UFO was recently recorded swooping low in the airspace, enough for people to snatch some shots. Check it out here: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewvideo.php?id=A-h7DaJCqx4&tid=186045

I will agree with the author of The Buzz Log article, Mike Krumboltz, that "Truth be told, there's not much left to be said. Something weird happened. Nobody knows what it was. And if they do, they aren't saying. Check out the video (actually, a series of still photographs) below and judge for yourself."