A great looking girl as a killer assassin, my type of movie, a superb follow up to the first. The first I gave a 10 as it developed more of the rather small storyline (take out the 3 warlords to prevent war. This movie continues the last part of the mission: search and destroy Sanada.
A surprise is the bandit Ginkaku (a lookalike Nachi from the first movie) played by the same person as he had such a small role in the first movie, whom Azumi feels instantly attracted to.
Azumi is as inhumanly fast and deadly as in the first movie, very few foes lasting a second or two before you see the blood spurting or body parts flying. I would say shes like a blur but that credit goes to Kunio.
A large flaw I found was the lack of guards around Tenkai which was laughable, the only reason I can see for this is Sanada had his forces around him isolating him from his troops which makes no sense. Surely at all times there would be a large guard around someone of his importance, even if they weren't expecting an attack, comeon. Though of course some nice action sequences would need to be changed.
As has been said, watching this before the first will leave you lost, though you can watch it purely for the action sequences. I had to rewind a few scenes to follow the killing spree.
This movie kills so many action movies, with a few lengthy boss fights throughout the movie, not just waiting for the last fight.
Thoroughly entertaining.
A surprise is the bandit Ginkaku (a lookalike Nachi from the first movie) played by the same person as he had such a small role in the first movie, whom Azumi feels instantly attracted to.
Azumi is as inhumanly fast and deadly as in the first movie, very few foes lasting a second or two before you see the blood spurting or body parts flying. I would say shes like a blur but that credit goes to Kunio.
A large flaw I found was the lack of guards around Tenkai which was laughable, the only reason I can see for this is Sanada had his forces around him isolating him from his troops which makes no sense. Surely at all times there would be a large guard around someone of his importance, even if they weren't expecting an attack, comeon. Though of course some nice action sequences would need to be changed.
As has been said, watching this before the first will leave you lost, though you can watch it purely for the action sequences. I had to rewind a few scenes to follow the killing spree.
This movie kills so many action movies, with a few lengthy boss fights throughout the movie, not just waiting for the last fight.
Thoroughly entertaining.