I'll tell you this deserves negative two stars out of ten just for being so campy, annoying and lame for all of the reasons I'm about to tell you members. The plot I won't even bother getting into because it's already absurd-sounding if you read the summary posted on here; I don't know any of the French and Asian actors, but they don't look happy to be here nor do they look impressed with the material either; the humor isn't even close to lame, it's more close to an unfunny punchline which doesn't even seem to be part of a joke; and, last of all, the action sequences are not at all impressive and are not going to impress any viewers unless they have never seen a single movie with this type of material before, but even then they'll forget about it the next day so . . . tough luck, very tough luck. I saw this on Spike TV and I deeply regret wasting my time with this flick which everyone else seems to thinking the same thing. The "imdb rating" is currently a 3.4 out of 10 for a reason folks ! Do yourself a favor and avoid like the plaque!

I didn't know until now that countries like Spain and, or France were capable of making things like Samourais. I understand America's obsessive impulse to rent movies that are hilariously terrible, but I didn't know that Europeans are answering our demands. I'm not saying all foreign films are great, but for the larger majority of what we absorb in foreign cinema, American audiences usually get the upper rung.However, Samourais seems to be the product of a massive delusion on the part of the director, writer, etc. I don't know how money gets spent on things like this. If movies are meant to incur a profit, Samourais' net gain must have earned the director a sandwich.If I wanted to see a film that included scenes with insipid lackeys working at a video store,transmute into what's supposed to be ancient warriors/demons coming back from the past to battle, I. . .well, to tell you the truth, I don't know why I would ever watch something like this. I find that actually reading about Japanese mythology or renting Kurosawa films much more enterprising. Why spend money on something with clunky cumbersome dialog as it is? Especially considering that the dubbed features only convey that the French/Spanish dialog is bad in itself ! The worst is the action sequences- Historically, most martial arts films puts characters into the perspective that they are warriors fighting against impossible odds, however, this film mutates that concept horribly. The fighting sequences are just as awkward and clunky as the dialog, and they lack the fluid execution and limits that most martial arts movies are actually implicative of. This movie seems like it was made by someone who failed a course in metaphysics in college.The only thing good about this movie is the repulsive french rap during the credits.

Half a century ago a samurai summoned a demon from the underworld called Kodeni, to help win a battle which he and his men couldn't win. After the battle had finished the samurai tired to vanquish him back, but he couldn't and now his family was cursed with his daughter giving berth to demon so he could live among mankind. And today Kodeni heads an underground crime syndicate in Tokyo. Although, his getting weak and needs to be reborn again and so he chooses a police detective's daughter, who's been after him. But his daughter is in France studying fashion at university, so he takes the next plane to finish the job, even if that means killing his daughter to stop Kodeni being reborn. But he doesn't count on some of her French friends getting in the way.It's all about the gloss and advertisement. What do I mean? One you could think you're watching one gigantic video clip with loud pretentious music. And secondly was this an advertising campaign for Sony? The video game idea and sequences involving it were just worked in a rather trashy way. Although what really surprised was when I came on here I was expecting the film to be averaging at least over 5, but I was stunned by the user rating average… 3.4! *Hmm* I didn't think it was that bad, even though I'll only rate it a 4.Back to the main point, what the film tries for is cross-culture mix, by adding a modern-day touch with the old traditions of martial arts. And hey some sequences are staged remarkably well. The film starts out perfectly enough, this is when most of the action takes place in Japan. Although, when the film headed to France that's when it disappoints. What it has going for it was that the premise is rapidly paced and has a fierce edge that knocks you about. Though, like most of the films of this type the problem was that action got hugely repetitive (after the airport bathroom scene), it thinks its hip by focusing a lot on its slickly done visuals, but it made it even more shallow and the plot starts out dazzling enough, but soon goes by the numbers with a lot of irrelevant happenings and juvenile humour. The humour just wasn't funny, but it was funny for all the wrong reasons. The big cross has to go to the very annoying friend/sidekick who was a real pain to listen to. You'll be hoping for his head to be on the chopping block, I guarantee! The cast's performances were nothing to write home about it, as they were pretty stiff in there depiction as conventional characters. You got the hero, woman in distress, irritating sidekick, father who knows best, henchman and their master. Surely even if you haven't seen it, by that you know how it would end! Incorporating the game into the live frenetic climax was just laughable! Overall, it's a silly plot that thinks its uniquely clever and original. But this heavy handed light show is only saved by some of the eye catching action sequences, while everything else is a muddle or better put lousy.

The film is very different,many of the films that are given bad ratings by many of the fewers are generally rated bad because of the inability to follow a movie.Many watch just to see the fight scenes as if in real life conflicts don't generally start by things people say that is considered offensive."Lets just fight for no cause or reason".The story is well explained but you have those out there that cannot follow the film because hey,"I have to think".Ask anyone the question, why was the computer programmer of the video game killed in the beginning?"Because he knew Kung fu and Karate.Ha! Spiderman not the greatest movie of the year the hulk was OK, not anything unique.The film is very different but didn't receive the attention it deserved.The best films out there goes with- out attention.I know people who watched water world twice in one day but put something out there different unique.My point is here most people want to see the same things over and over.I'm even surprised the matrix was a big hit.