There is nothing special about this film. It has some interesting character designs and abilities but they are all directly ripped from anime, manga and videogames.

Buy it for a boozy night with mates, nothing more. If you want everything this film tries to be, then check out "A Chinese Ghost Story" aka "Sien nui yau wan", which is an amazing example of a classic. Don't forget to check out the sequels!

However, Shinobi is like a plastic novelty turd in comparison. It looks flashy but delivers nothing more than a videogame would. Its also let down (IMHO) by a typical self-sacrifical ending. You will probably have a laugh if you're with friends, but not one to watch on your own.

The film wasn't that bad, but I was hoping for a massive ninja clan deathmatch sort of film, being two major clans that had been feuding for 300 years, which didn't really happen. The actors and characters were all decent. There are some 'Mighty Morphin Power Ranger' bits which ruined it a tad. I know it's meant to have a bit or wizardy myth about it, but I wanted to see more sword play. I got a little bored near the end and ffw some talking, maybe it was signifficant, but once all the action was over, and I just wanted the film to end.
Not bad, but only worth viewing once in my opinion.
Not a five star, but worthy of a four.

this is an interesting fiulm..mixing historical figures with outright fantasy ones...but also paying homage to several similar characters from other manga and anime.
for instance Kagero the female ninja is obviously a direct copy from Ninja Scroll....also one of the other ninja appears to posses the kessen-chu blood worms seen so obviously in the Blade of the Immortal manga with the character Manji.
Other than those direct correlations the film is well scripted and has some superb CGI...as well as physical stunts.
Its nice to see a ninja film created with modern techniques and with passion for the material as well as the history of the regions involved. Whilst not of the cinematic quality of Flying Daggers this is still a must have to any collection for those that enjoy the genre.

Its a really great film and if your into ninja fighting and a romantic love story twisted within then this is the film for you. I really enjoyed and the the music on it is stunning also.

No real martial arts fighting all wires and fantasy type fighting, (which is brilliantly done).

Could have done with more action and less of the love story, (which brings it down).

Wonderful colours as always with these type of Asian films so if your into that you will more then likely love this.

Was expecting something more from this and not upto the, 'Flying daggers', 'Hero', 'Crouching tiger' etc.

Enjoyed it but not one of those films you would see over and over.

3 stars for the fighting 0 stars for the love scenes which kept the film at a very slow pace and almost stalled it in places.

Great film throughout, not quite got the quality of house of flying daggers n such but still a must if you like this kind of film

A fantastic presentation of shinobi's (ninja) life. Action packed with a love plot to spice things up a bit. Fight scenes are brilliant, an excellent way to show fights that you could only see in anime movies. I think you could call it Naruto with real actors. Highly recomended

I love this film its a great story and the fighting scenes are amazing. Each fighter has a unique talent which is captured brilliantly in this film, you will be blown away! Definitely one of the best films I've seen!