I don't have much time today so I'll dive directly into the subject. "The Warrior's Way" is a pretty strange mix between a western and ... "Ninja Assassin" about which I was writing not so long ago. In other words the main idea is pretty similar = we have an assassin who one days gets fed up with his "job", the clan's code of honor, fidelity vows and such stuff and just flees away ... obviously followed by the whole ex-workmates armada who are strongly decided to turn him into chopped sushi.
Although the context is relatively similar, "The Warrior's Way" is after all another story, and this time I should emphasize on the "story". To explain, from the first scene you get a feeling of a sort of "fantasy" having a narrator in the background and a pretty colorful chromatic (but which looks quite ok, so a plus already for the cinematography) and this is kept throughout the whole movie inevitably giving you a light impression of surreal. But, getting back to the actual story, if in "Ninja Assassin" , the "rogue one" had a personal problem with the clan leader and the final purpose of fleeing was a sort of "comeback revenge with guns ... well .. shurikens blazing", here our assassin wants just to simply retire. This, and also he has a fixed idea of guarding the last survivor (a girl of a few months old) from the enemy clan which was supposed to be completely decimated according to his last contract "clause". And considering that Japan is an island = apparently to small to hide, his decision is to emigrate to the west, which is the wild west in this case. And so we get to the action place = a little (almost ghost) town, the headquarters of an unemployed circus collective, place which is periodically raided by an ex-army gang whose members seemingly were left with too much unused ammunition after the Civil War. Well, probably it's already predictable where this state of things leads, our man having no chance to successfully embrace his new flourishing career of owner and main employee of the local public laundry.
I've already said more than enough but there is still to be seen. Without additional details (you can see this however pretty much from the trailer so it's not a spoiler), I can't hold to tell that on the whole salad above you can add also a romance + a certain scent of "Karate Kid". And trust me, there is still more, especially regarding the way the story goes ... Thing, that incredibly enough, leads to the weird mix mentioned in the beginning, which is however quite interesting to watch especially if you didn't expect some "masterpiece" and you just want to see an action movie. As a downside you'll get a ton of cliche and SF-ish scenes, although this part is how to say ... comes in the same package with the action flow = so maybe at some point it would have been more weird to be missing than present. Therefore, the real downside at least for me was another one ... And I have to get back to the comparison with "Ninja Assassin". I think that there maybe due to a less chaotic pace the story was more catchy and like I was writing in that entry, the characters, especially the lead negative one, are pretty well developed. This is pretty true also here, but it's still a difference ... Anyway, for a directorial and screenwriting start (because this is what it is), the result should be appreciated. So, although in my opinion "Warrior's Way" is a bit lower, considering that IMDb underrates them both at pretty much the same level, I will be consistent with what I concluded also for "Ninja Assassin":
Rating: 4 out of 5
PS: Considering that the soundtrack which is in parts close to the Morricone spaghetti western work was replaced in the trailer by something completely different ... I felt the need to give another link, although I don't know for how long it will be valid :
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