"Ninja Assassin" starts off not with a bang, but with a slash. A whole lot of slashes, in fact, as an unseen attacker turns a crew of smirking young Yakuza thugs into the Japanese equivalent of Vienna Sausages. Ah, if only they had heeded the wise words of the elderly tattoo artist who tried to warn them: "You cannot bargain with it, you cannot reason with it because it is not a human being! It is a demon sent straight from Hell!"
That ancient inkslinger was absolutely right: Reason certainly has no place in "Ninja Assassin," which makes a half-hearted attempt to set up a plot before abandoning storytelling altogether.
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