In “Ninja Assassin,” which is numbingly gory when it isn’t just plain numbing, the assassin Raizo, played by Korean pop star and budding actor Rain, rains down on his interchangeable adversaries like ...

Back on Thursday at Comic-Con, I finally got to see a first look at James McTeigue's Ninja Assassin, a movie I've been following for the longest time. In the film, Rain stars as Raizo, one of the ...

Enough people saw James McTeigue's Ninja Assassin these past few days to put it at #6 on the five-day weekend chart with roughly $21 million in box office earnings. But the one person I was ...

Joshua Kristian McCoy is a freelance writer and film critic from the United States. He is a lifelong film buff, a voting member of the Georgia Film Critics Association, a tournament-winning Smash Bros ...

When considering the meager merits of the bone-snapping, blood-splattered "Ninja Assassin," it's best to remember the words of John Goodman's PC-challenged character in "The Big Lebowski": "The man in ...

Director James McTeigue has built the reputation of working on some of the more visually engaging projects over the last ten years – The Matrix, V for Vendetta and Speed Racer. So, the question is, ...

He was born Jeong Ji-hoon 27 years ago, but his stage name, Rain, is perfect: He's like a force of nature as he bustles into a suite at the Ritz-Carlton winding up a North American press tour for his ...

Seemingly made to capitalize on a dubious CG innovation — namely, the slicing of bodies in half by whizzing five-pointed stars — “Ninja Assassin” has little else to recommend it, not even laughs.

Warner Bros. Digital Distribution and Legendary Digital are converting iPhone and iPod touch users’ fingers into deadly chain blades, razor-sharp shurikens, and lethal katanas in Ninja Assassin, a ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...