Yang (Dong-gun Jang) has just become the greatest sword
fighter in the world by slaying the bodyguard of the last remaining member of
his clan’s enemies. All he has to do is kill the baby girl, and his clan will
finally be at peace. Problem is, he can’t. He spares her and flees the country
to America, becoming enemy number one to his clan.
Lynne (Kate Bosworth) survived a brutal attack as a child
and witnessed her whole family slain by the Colonel (Danny Huston) as the town
watched. Now grown up and a circus performer (knife thrower…kinda) she still
lives in the dying town Yang shows up in with the baby. The town drunk, Ronald
(Geoffrey Rush) is less than happy to meet Yang, and for good reason. Killers
recognize their own. Yang trains Lynne in the art of sword fighting.
Yang is trying to remain hidden from the Saddest Flute clan
and eek out a life in this doomed town when the Colonel returns with his army
of men to wreak more havoc on the little town. Will he help the town? Will he flee with the baby?
Apparently since Sin City, there’s been a new type of movie
full of vibrant, obviously fake backgrounds, and comic-booky action sequences.
If you like this “300” like scenery, then you might like this movie. Some of
the fight scenes were pretty fantasy and impossible anywhere else but in the movies,
but they were bad-assed if not unbelievable.
Did I mention clowns get killed? No? For me, I love it when
those creepy things get wasted, so you can see my bias. The movie is cheesy,
corny, and I’m sure a few other food-like words. It’s one of those movies that get
better with alcohol. You could probably make a drinking game out of it. Drink
whenever someone dies and see if you can make it past the first 15 minutes. If you
like comic book-Kill Bill kinda movies, go pick it up, otherwise you may wanna stay
home and watch Terra Nova.
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