Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Cortechba Overrated

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Minevitch There is simply no use in trying to glorify any part of this film.It was straight up trash. At the very beginning you might think that you are in for a visually stunning piece of cinematography... and then shortly thereafter you are hit with a large sack (burlap) of FAIL! The fighting is barely martial, the acting is teetering on the edge of par, and the music is not worth describing. There is only enough of a story to have created an excuse for this film to have been made. The decisions that the characters make and the way that they deal with the situations is weak, and did nothing but frustrate me. I think that the only reason this film came about was to act as a bit of fan service by using Yumiko Shaku.

Ben Brown Thanks for watching the movie. Sorry you haven't seen any Japanese films worth watching. Do us all a favor, however, and please don't slam all Asian films as being inferior to Hollywood. If that's not a contradiction then I really must be missing something.I don't think a movie like this should be considered great cinema, but it also shouldn't be put on the same level as a Wesley Snipes or Jean-Claude flick. This is a movie written by comic book artists and adapted to film. Along those lines, it did a hell of a lot better than a bunch of crappy animated-turned-movie flicks.But I'm not writing this to defend this movie, I'm writing it to defend film making in general. To watch Godzilla and a couple of other stereotyped Japanese films and then talk about how they're almost rating up to Hollywood is kind of like calling my mother a whore and yourself the son of a turtle. I don't expect you to get that reference, because it comes from a culture that you obviously don't understand.If you'd like to learn a bit more about the culture you're slamming, watch Ichii the Killer, or better yet, Swallowtail Butterfly, if you can find it. Ichii the Killer isn't the best Japanese film I've ever seen (Swallowtail Butterfly is), but it's way the hell up there in relation to such Hollywood crap-tas-tics as Titanic and Predator II.Special effects do not make great cinema. Neither does something being made in the US, Japan, Russia, or my butt. Great cinema, like all great works of art, comes from great minds. Neither of us possess these talents, but unlike you, I will first learn about a culture before I slam it (and by learning about it, I am destined to end up NOT slamming it), and I will spend more time looking at the world from the eye of someone who wishes to learn rather than bash.....present case excepted.Have a day.

BA_Harrison Not knowing too much about the film before viewing, I popped Princess Blade into the DVD player expecting a lighthearted disposable babes-with-swords action movie and boy was I surprised; instead of a throwaway plot and an emphasis on 'cool' visuals, I got a rather bleak and bloody tale of retribution and the futility of life.Yuki is a member of the Takemikazuchi clan—killers for hire who work for the reigning monarchy, disposing of any opposition. When she learns that Byakurai, head honcho of the clan, was responsible for the death of her mother, she seeks revenge. After failing to kill Byakurai, she flees the group, hotly pursued by her fellow assassins who see her as a traitor.Narrowly escaping death by climbing into the back of a passing truck, Yuki is befriended by the driver, a rebel who is part of a terrorist organisation secretly fighting the establishment. The two outcasts grow fond of each other and plan to run away together, but it is not long before both of their pasts catch up with them with tragic results.With stunning swordplay choreographed by top Hong Kong star Donnie Yen, a decent story and a strong visual style, Princess Blade is an admirable debut from director Shinsuke Sato. Despite a rather slow middle section in which time is taken to try and develop characters and flesh out the sometimes confusing plot, the film never bores, and when Yuki finally gets to exact revenge, she does so in spectacular fashion, chopping, hacking and slicing all those who dare to draw swords against her.Bloody and brutal, this is definitely worth a watch for fans of the genre.

Art Tizon Based on "Lady Snowblood". Sort of a prequel, sequel, and remake at once. It is a good film in the end. Hoowever, some of th plots are just not explained and make us wonder why they were even thrown in. What was with that farmboy? Anyway, it takes place far in the future. We find Yuki (who was previously left somewhere in the Meji Restoration killing her smallpox-infected boyfriend with a short sword) in a group of samurai assassins, still a beautiful young woman. At twenty, she discovers that her employer was the one who led the brutal attack on her royal parents and made the purpose of her birth. She tries to kill him, but he is too powerful, and she runs out to a farm and meets a farmboy. He has a strange, mute sister and a past involving terrorism or something like that. Before long, the assassins start coming, so she must destroy them and finalize the revenge that she started in the previous two films. I recommend this. On first viewing, I hated it. On second, I loved it. Avoid the dubbed version, it is horrible. My complaints are the plot holes and her screams whenever she runs that really get quite irritating after a while. Still- 3 1/2 out of 5.