The Blogtastic Blogfest That Is Getmeoutofthis.net!

Since why not, the night before the wedding I saw A Warrior’s Way.
Man, what a mis-represented movie.
You see stuff for this film, and it’s like, “Ninjas! Cowboys! Fighting! Special Effects!”
And then you get in and watch the film and it’s like, “Surreal visuals! Strange voice-overs! Rarely any fighting!”

Seriously, you come to a movie like that for badass swordplay, don’t you? But there isn’t one person in the entire film that Mr. Main Character doesn’t kill with one strike. None. Even the most important characters are dead immediately. The longest fight scene is between love interest and bad guy 1, and that’s kind of… a desperate fight, as opposed to cool badassery. It’s a bunch of people flailing around as opposed to a badass, choreographed scene.

Most of the movie was Mr. Main Character getting used to being a laundry man. He doesn’t smile, and people in this town take to him, and teach him how to have fun, and he takes care of a baby. It was so weird. There’s this cast of carnival characters and I guess we’re supposed to get to like them. Nobody was really very well developed, though. They were all stereotypes, living together. They didn’t really feel well developed. Granted, the Cowboy Villian, Bad Guy #1, was wonderfully creepy, so they did that right at least. But still, not really a full character.

The visuals, too… well, Essner described them as “Like Amilie” which is kind of accurate? Nothing was real at all. Every shot was really constructed and had a lot of CG in it. It certainly gave the film an interesting look, but without the rest of the stuff to back it up, it doesn’t seem completely worth it.

I don’t know. It was such a weird film, I’m unsure what to think of it. It wasn’t an offensive movie, but it was really strange, and nothing like it seemed like it was going to be. I can’t really recommend seeing it in theaters, but it was an experience, to be sure.