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WOW ! That's all I could say while watching Ip Man (Donnie Yen) rapid punching someone's face trough the floor. This movie has some really brutal fight scenes with amazing choreography. I won't go deep into plot details, the synopsis is enough to read before seeing this movie anyways.

I'm not a kung-fuholic, I consider myself as a fan and I have done my part of checking out the most notable kung-fu movies but I have never seen one like Yip Man. The fights are so perfectly executed which is rarely seen. The movie itself is kind of a sad story as the plot progresses and this is a perfect excuse of checking it out with your girlfriend, she will like it ( mine did ).

Everyone and I mean everyone who likes kung-fu/martial arts movies should see it ! The fight with Ip Man beating up 10 karate dudes will make you rewind and watch again and again.

Clyde Shelton's ( Gerard Butler ) wife gets murdered in the beginning of the movie and justice doesn't prevail because one of the killers is only sentenced for 10 years. Clyde is angry as hell and will make sure the people responsible for the horrible trial of the killers will all suffer and die. So basically you got yourself a revenge movie here. Clyde is killing them and isn't even hiding it, he admits it. Nick Rice ( Jamie Foxx ) is the DA on the case and needs to find out what the hell is going on. Now the fun part is that Clyde is performing the kills from within his prison cell, he even has to sit out in solitary and is still killing people, now how cool is that.

I totally dig the idea of a highly intelligent man orchestrating kills on specific times and places from his prison cell, all planned ahead of time. If you're a smart ass while watching this movie you'll find out there are a lot of plot holes so I recommend you not to think it all through. Heads up for Gerard Butler, this guy is making some mayor progress on this one after some sh!tty movies last year. I think we'll be seeing more of King Leonidas in the future so hurray to that. On the opposite, Jamie Foxx is on a decline. Ray was an excellent movie but after that it's just bad. As Nick Rice the DA he is just one stone face mofo, no emotion no nothing. Jamie and the ending of the movie are the only 2 things that suck. The movie is just handing out it's surprises like candy, like spoiling your daughter's birthday present a week before her actual birthday. Watch it with a time progress bar and stop the movie before the last 15 minutes, then close your eyes and make up your own ending and I promise you it will be way better then the awful piece of movie you just skipped...

Ninja's are cool. Ever since I was a kid I am fascinated by Ninja's. Silent, quick and extremely deadly. However, there aren't many great Ninja flicks nowadays, all we have are classics. Back in the old days I used to rent a lot of dual cases VHS with eastern ninja movies. Not good but awe-some to see the ninja's wielding their Katana's. Then we have some Western Ninja movies like American Ninja, not great but we deal with it because that's all we have. The waiting is over, finally a Ninja movie done the way it should. Ninja's are nearly invisible, they can smell you from a dozen of miles and can hear one's heartbeat loud and clear. I want to be a Ninja ! Ninja Assassin has a really cliché hero story. An orphan raised by a clan of ninja's called the Ozunu has learned and mastered the Ninja way. One day his girlfriend who'm he has seen growing up within the clan decides to run, but get's caught and killed for breaking the clan rules thus making our hero Raizo ( Rain ) very angry. He turns his back on the clan and lives in the shadows to get revenge. In the modern world an Europol agent called Mika ( Naomie Harris ) finds out about this ancient Ninja clan and their recent killing spree's. At first no one believes her but that will soon change as she will find herself chased down by the Ozunu clan for sticking her nose in their business. And as you can guess our hero Raizo is there to help our damsel in distress. He sticks with her because she is his connection to the Ninja Clan he seeks for revenge.

Not much of a story and to be honest the dialog in this movie is pretty sh!tty too, as well as the acting that comes with it. But who cares, the reason to check this one out is for the action. I gotta hand it to them, they do a pretty good job. I don't know if you people ever played a game called Ninja Gaiden but this movie is basically just that. Limbs get cut off with ease with piles of blood, dozens of shurikens flying into people's bodies, Katana's, Ninja Outfits and great martial arts, that's what we want now don't we ! Ninja action at it's best, who cares if the story is boring, who cares if they act like they are in the Bold and the Beautiful. We want sword fights, cut off limbs, decapitations, shurikens yes we want Ninja's and that is exactly what this movie does, so hurray to that.