The Warrior's Way

I'm baaaaaaaaaack! :)


I found The Warrior's Way to be more than what I was expecting. After watching the trailer (which you can see below), I was slightly intrigued by the combination of samurai and cowboys (similar to how I'm excited for next year's Cowboys & Aliens). I was cautious, because while the concept of the movie was cool, it had all the makings for a disaster. For starters, it was filmed over three years ago, and it is essentially being dumped into a wasteland of a weekend. There are no other films, beside this one, in wide release this weekend.

I went into this movie with extremely low expectations. I kept asking myself, "How can this not be bad?" It is a B movie after all. From the looks of the trailer, it appeared like the movie was going to take itself seriously too. Surprisingly, it doesn't. There was a charm to the movie and it was actually pretty funny. I worked a screening of movie for my internship, and one of the audience members told me afterward that it was "more than a B movie, I'd say B+ movie," and I couldn't agree more.

It was definitely a lot better than I was expecting, and good for what it is. One of the stand out scenes includes the warrior taking down a hallway full of henchmen lit only by the strobe light-like bursts from the guns. Let's just say it's way better than Jonah Hex from earlier this summer. This is a fun choice if you're looking for a new movie to catch this weekend and I'd recommend checking it out if you've seen everything else you wanted to see.