I just seen it this afternoon. Awesome ****ing movie, a must own on Blu-Ray, this was definatly made for the people like me who ate up the Cannon/ Golan Globus Ninja/ martial arts films of the 80's! Except they threw in that Anime rate of speed to the ninjas, and I loved the blood play and weapons used. Loved it. People complain about CG blood over squibs, but I got to tell you what, creatively you can never do a quid of on set blood effect and have it look 100% right to a director. With CG blood, you can do it and not have it look like a lawn sprinkler spraying red syrup (see Freddy vs. Jason; horrible standard bloodwork). I know nothing of Rain, but he seemed pretty cool. We will just not acknowledge he's just a Korean Justin Timberlake, so let's just throw him in with Michael Dudikoff (actually, Rain is a hell of a lot more believable with the martial arts work than Mike ever was) as far as believibility. I got a kick out of seeing Sho Kusugi in such a prominent role in a Ninja movie again, even got the Anime style scar face going.
Had a great time too, friends enjoyed it as well. I even had one of my buddies see New Moon last night for the 2nd time with his Mom and girlfriend , and was giving him crap about lacking Ball. So it was this or Boondock Saints 2. I happily donated to this film this weekend, on principle.
8.5/10