scottshimamotocomic
I'm all for Asian Actors getting some featured roles in TV and movies, so this is no criticism of the actor's work.I'm saying Hip Hop because of all the "sampling" that is going on in this movie...The theme music is the same as the one from the original Six Million Dollar Man...The guy that is with one of the brothers squats down and talks like that dude in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy...The white blind master guy has crazy eyes like Master Po from Kung Fu...Seki's father in the movie looks just like Sho Asahara from the Aum Shinri-kyo doomsday cult in Japan...The tall dude is a rerun of Andre The Giant's character in "Princess Bride"...Should I go on? I must say that Marie Matiko and Musetta Vander are very hot!!!The lameness is not the fault of the acting or even on the concept, it's on who ever thought that people wouldn't remember all these "rip offs" of other people's original ideas...
samuraizack503
At the start of the movie, it seemed to be a rather entertaining story, full of martial arts and magic--two things I'm very fond of in movies. I was expecting this to be SO much more. I was just getting into the movie and it ENDED. I was like "WTF!?!?!?!?" Seriously, this movie was the most disappointing thing I've ever watched. I could have personally done a better job with the storyline than this pathetic director, script writer, and/or whomever is responsible. This movie had tremendous potential to be a great movie, but it was ruined by it's sudden ending that leaves SO much to be unknown.SUGGESTION TO THE DIRECTOR/PRODUCER IF (S)HE EVER READS THIS: They either need to default and just remake the whole movie and continue the storyline or make a Forbidden Warrior 2 with these actors, provided they're still alive and look relatively similar--maybe they can just say that Seki has been in training for 4 years. Come on people! Let's not let a perfectly good story go to waste!
ami-40
Frankly, when the movie ended I thought to myself: hum, let's check for episode 2!!! Since there is no real beginning to the story, and it doesn't really end either, I thought this was like a TV series pilot or a mini series!! The actors are not all that bad, although the main character can't act! Very cute though!! Ah well, if you like a movie with a strong script that actually does have an ending and a story, then this movie is not for you! LOL! Sometimes it's okay if there are some good fights, or lots of martial art action! But you won't see this either. No beautiful scenery or great camera work, no great actors...looks like made for TV I'm telling you!!!
mwendel
While many people probably expected this movie to be some kind of great martial arts / sword fighting flick; it only delivers on a juvenile level. The fighting contains very little blood, and that which it does have isn't like what you would see even in a PG-13 movie today, but I can't say it was bad fighting, not can I say it was great fighting.This movie because of the way it was shot reminded me of watching a very long episode of a Hercules style television show. So I'm not sure if this was originally intended for the television or the big screen.I think the story makes a lot of assumptions about what the watcher knows. They don't explain much about the geography used. Characters have little to know background given. The characters in some respects I believe are so proto-typical that they probably didn't feel the need to tell much about them since their appearance could tell you quite a bit. While I like this about the movie, and it makes it very easy to tell the good guys from the bad guys, in many ways its what I don't like about the movie too. I like characters, well, to have some more character and depth to them! I don't think anyone who watches this will be left going, ugh what a terrible movie, if they have the right mindset. But if you're looking for a serious martial arts / Asian flavored movie then this isn't the film for you.
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