Kim Brown Review: Ninja Assassin

Part gooey horror, part action extravaganza, “Ninja Assassin” is certainly obsessed with the gore of the mythic profession.

Understandably, a movie about an off-the-grid ninja should be violent, but director James McTeigue (“V for Vendetta”) seems more interested in the body count than the story, which ends up almost as sliced and diced as his ill-fated extras.