Exaggerated is about the only word I can use to describe this movie. Exaggerated story, exaggerated violence, and exaggerated characters. That can work sometimes, such as with comedies, but it didn't work here.
An Asian assassin (Jang Dong-Gun) was part of a clan called the Sad Flutes. After he achieved the status of greatest swordsman in the history of mankind he needed only to eliminate the last member of the rival clan, except he couldn't. The last member was a mere baby, so he abandoned fighting, spared the last member of the rival clan, and moved to the American West (sometime in the 19th century). That put him at the top of his clan's most wanted list. He made a violence-free life for himself in America, opened a laundry service, and fell in love with the annoying, grossly overacting, pretty red-head named Lynn (Kate Bosworth), though you knew it was only a matter of time before he was going to have to have that final showdown.
I expected a bit of a cartoonish video-game-like movie, though I thought there was a chance it could be like the movie "Ninja Assassin," which was pretty good. It didn't even approach "Ninja Assassin." This movie was one big exaggeration; albeit, a stylized exaggeration with some bad CGI, but an exaggeration nonetheless.
An Asian assassin (Jang Dong-Gun) was part of a clan called the Sad Flutes. After he achieved the status of greatest swordsman in the history of mankind he needed only to eliminate the last member of the rival clan, except he couldn't. The last member was a mere baby, so he abandoned fighting, spared the last member of the rival clan, and moved to the American West (sometime in the 19th century). That put him at the top of his clan's most wanted list. He made a violence-free life for himself in America, opened a laundry service, and fell in love with the annoying, grossly overacting, pretty red-head named Lynn (Kate Bosworth), though you knew it was only a matter of time before he was going to have to have that final showdown.
I expected a bit of a cartoonish video-game-like movie, though I thought there was a chance it could be like the movie "Ninja Assassin," which was pretty good. It didn't even approach "Ninja Assassin." This movie was one big exaggeration; albeit, a stylized exaggeration with some bad CGI, but an exaggeration nonetheless.