good back-story, and good acting

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Yang (Dong-gun Jang) defeats the greatest swordsman in a 500 year old war between two clans. He saves the last girl of the opposing clan. He escapes assassins to go to America's Old West to look for his friend who turned out to have passed away. He is followed by his former master intent on finishing the last of the enemy clan. In the dusty town of Lode, Lynne (Kate Bosworth) helps him reopen his friend's laundry service. She had survived the raping Colonel (Danny Huston) and his men to find sanctuary in the dusty desert town. Eight-Ball (Tony Cox) is building a ferris wheel to set down his traveling circus. Ronald (Geoffrey Rush) is a local drunk who is also a dead shot.This starts with a little bit of humor but the writing is unable to maintain it. The writing fails again and again. Kate Bosworth is almost funny at times. There are tons of stylish action. The ending is muddled by the arrival of two different groups of bad guys. It actually diminishes the intensity and decreases the fun of the action. The style and the setup is pretty good but the writing lets it down.

It's not John Ford, but THE WARRIOR'S WAY is an outstanding western. A blend of east & west, live action & CGI, far eastern mysticism & carnies, classic western film guitar & spaghetti western horns, with a whole new spin on a man, a woman, & a baby. Danny Huston is spectacular, Kate Bosworth brings it, and Geoffrey Rush & Tony Cox are great. This is the first I've seen of the lead, Dong-gun Jang, & I liked him. Thanks Netflix, I almost missed it. It's not John Ford, but THE WARRIOR'S WAY is an outstanding western. A blend of east & west, live action & CGI, far eastern mysticism & carnies, classic western film guitar & spaghetti western horns, with a whole new spin on a man, a woman, & a baby. Danny Huston is spectacular, Kate Bosworth brings it, and Geoffrey Rush & Tony Cox are great. This is the first I've seen of the lead, Dong-gun Jang, & I liked him. Thanks Netflix, I almost missed it.

Grossly under-appreciated "Wu Xia meets Gunslinger" film.The martial artist with a baby angle probably derived from the "Samurai Assassin" films.But the "fish out of water" "Eastern martial artist in the Old West angle almost certainly derived from Bruce Lee's original concept for "Kung Fu."Sad to see so many movie fans slam this film. It really wasn't as bad as many made it out to be.In fact, it was quite good in many respects. The action sequences can hardly be faulted. The fight choreography was good as any, including "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" or "Hero."

In Sngmoo Lee's directorial depute he as the honor of directing Academy Award® Winner Geoffrey Rush, and Kate Bosworth, Danny Huston and International Korean sensation Jang Dong Gun, from the highest grossing Korean film "Friend" star in this overly stylized martial arts western mash-up.After a lifetime of training as a assassin or soldier in some grand battle between families, the world's most dangerous swordsman/samurai Yang (Jang Dong-gun) with the exodus of his homeland and well-trained obedient warrior clan, to start a new life in the American West after a change of heart when practically single-handedly slaughtering his rival's army, our hero spares a newborn child. Yang and the orphan find the beat-down town of Lode, "The Paris of the West" a home for outcast, circus performers, an old drunks (Geoffrey Rush), and a knife-thrower (Kate Bosworth) who is looking for revenge & redemption from "The Colonel" (Danny Huston) a sadistic rapist for killing her family as a child. Yang takes Kate Bosworth as his student. Soon "The Colonel" and his gang wage an all-out war against the town. "The Warrior" Yang must lead the town into an epic battle. Meanwhile Yang's old master and his army of Ninjas hear the call of Yang's weeping sword, "yes you heard right, the weeping sword". Let me explain, when the sword is unsheathed the swords weeps for all the lives it took. Lame as all hell.The film begins as cartoonish as it ends; with over the top choreographed fight sequences and gravity-defying stunts and over the top cg, annoying coolness, fans of 300 will love this film. I'm considering on starting a campaign in which studios are forced to reveal the percentage of cg to practical effects on all releases, I think people will be surprised on the number. I want to know if I'm watching cartoon or not. We are constantly reminding that the actors are interacting in front of a green screen, taking us out of the film. "Or am I the only one that cares" Very much influences by comic book and video game action, not to mention cheesy video game duologue which seemed to be written by a 14 year old or a video game designer that knows very little about storyteller just regurgitating images and lines they thought sounded cool in other movies. Fortune cookie freshman eastern philosophy one liners.If there is a silver cg lining in this disgrace of a western is the narration of the great Geoffrey Rush, with his worn growl of a voice which acts of story teller to this thing called a film. Geoffrey Rush is one of the most honest actors still working, and yet again he is wasted in another bad movie. Kate Bosworth a true beauty and wonderful actress and like Rush just wasting away in bad movies.Our main character Yang (Jang Dong Gun) played with a great stockiness', a classic character type "man with no name" a stereo type that exist in a good number of westerns. A story told a thousand times over – the hard man trying to make amends putting down his weapons taking the straight and narrow, only to be pulled back into the world he is trying to escape.With a bit of Sergio Leone campyness – without that small sense Leone's realism this is truly a Jonah Hex companion piece, at least in same level of quality. Trying to play a bit on the surrealism of Kung Fu Hustle but missing badly on the entertainment value.A little past midpoint the film screeches to a halts with a meandering laughable pointless series of scenes with Geoffrey Rush and Jang Dong-gun having "deep thoughts" at the desert garden which now grows beautiful foliage.Dead horses on the battlefield attempting to evoke Akira Kurosawa "for shame Sngmoo Lee , for shame". Jang Dong Gun is a true talent and has all the potential of crossing over to an American audience with the right role choices; this is diffidently not the right vehicle for him. He has great look about him and a natural ease on camera, he has been compares to a younger Chow Yun-Fat, yes unfair and a little racist, not every new young Asian actor that has moderate success in the US should feel that measurement.At the conclusion and what should have been most climactic scene in the movie – with the grand, epic long awaited show down with the greatest swordsman in the world and the teacher that taught him everything he knows, once again the films crescendo completely breaks down with a meaningless flashback. And the movie is over… the after the fact caper is laughable, I'll just let you witness that on your own. If your not 14years old you should not like this movie… -Will- nerdvanainc.com