Pretty Good

Fresh and Exciting

Absolutely the worst movie.

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Violent, great soundtrack, and full of action.This movie has a good story This movie has good music This movie is bloody as hell This movie has an evil villain This movie has emotion This movie has a sexy asian woman lead This movie is awesome

I'm not really into martial art flicks but I do search the old ones still on VHS or when some pops up for almost no money then I pick them up. Azumi was one of them, part 1 and 2 was bought for almost 2 euro's and they were new, go figure that one. So I thought, well, it's going to be crap but hey, what a surprise. It clocks in over 2 hours and it never bored me. Of course as a exploitation/horror geek I was looking for the effects used and sadly sometimes they used CGI blood but the story and the so typical Asian way of filming overruled the use of CGI. Based on a comic luckily it didn't had that overacting or the so typical costumes used in the American flicks. Again, be aware that it is really an Asian flick by which I mean that you will need to understand their way of living and their way of filming. You know, flying through the air and the typical way of using ninja swords. It never is really gory or messy but the red stuff do flows. There are some jokes in it but what really attracted me was the gay samurai. Fully dressed in white and walking with a red rose. It's funny to see and perfectly filmed. It isn't an original flick but if you are open for Asian martial art ones than I surely would recommend it.

The movie kind of left me pretty skeptic from the very start. I mean, if this guy is so concerned with making peace, why on earth would he train 10 assassins to go and kill a bunch of people? It's not the smartest way to make peace I've heard of... And then he tells them to kill each other so only half is left. And they obey, like mindless zombies. Which is really odd because in the previous scene it was obvious they were all a bunch of fun loving and innocent kids. And then soon afterward they're not traumatized in any way, in stead they're joking around and laughing like the rest of us. Not to mention the girl later on who almost gets raped and has all her friends killed before her very eyes. But she just smiles and carries on like nothing happened.The fight scenes were OK. But they got pretty tedious after a while. 2 hours and 20 minutes is pretty long for a movie with no plot to talk about. And you never really knew who you should want to win, because pretty much all the characters were ass holes anyway. There was nothing that made the 'bad guys' seem like bad guys. And there was nothing heroic about the heroes either. So basically the movie was just a an excuse to have a bunch of guys get killed on screen with some nice action choreography slapped on top. The only obviously bad guy in the movie was that white clad dude. But he was also the weakest character, simply a typical anime stereotype.I give the movie a six out of ten, feeling pretty generous. Because I did still enjoy the action, and there were some touching moments, however surreal they felt.

Azumi is trained to become an assassin, however, as she begin to question her path in life, her enemies are not far behind.I have had friends rave about this samurai film, and according to one particular friend, it was the movie that immortalised the long forgotten 'Samurai' genre, but I found this film to be quite disappointing.The plot was very minimal, with no real character development and the script itself was very weak, the actors chosen to play their respected roles, simply did not do the trick; Aya Ueto, is awful as the warrior without fear, I liked her better in 'Attention Please!'..Now, if the plot, characters, script is terrible, surely the action will make up for it...No...The action is simply awful, I liked the occasional one slice kill, but it just seems to be rushed and all a big catastrophe.