Someone surely thought to call this knowingly ridiculous genre mash-up Cowboys vs. Ninjas, though even that title wouldn’t hint at all the you-gotta-be-kidding-me craziness on display.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 19, 2023

The film moves languorously, sometimes too slowly, and manages to draw you with its eclectic appeal.

| Feb 28, 2020

I will give it credit for exceeding expectations -- a mildly entertaining diversion that I could see myself revisiting if nothing else was on at 3 a.m. Fans of action films should be satisfied.

| May 8, 2019

Stylized multi-genre films look easy when they work, when the Coens or Stephen Chow or Quentin Tarantino's in the house, but we mustn't kid ourselves. Nothing dies more horribly onscreen than a failed effort of this kind.

| Mar 2, 2019

Perhaps this was a video game or a straight action flick this would have been a better movie.

| Original Score: F | Sep 9, 2017

Weak acting, unfocused directing and an overall very phoney feeling make for a film that is seriously misguided.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 9, 2013

"The Warrior's Way" is a horribly ill-conceived idea that tries to blend Eastern and Western cinema, but all it ends up doing is creating a disaster that's filled to the brim with enough clichés to make your head spin.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 22, 2012

As a bit of cheesy Asian cinema, it works, but it didn't quite translate into a western without looking a bit like a Jonah Hex sequel.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2011

It's stupid in a way you won't really hate, provided you're already in the mood for a terrible rehash of cliches from a hundred other martial arts movies and Westerns.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

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| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 24, 2011

There is a tragic craft to how one manages to make a film about 'the greatest swordsman who has ever lived' as boring as The Warrior's Way.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 10, 2011

Simple video game-style action sequences with bad dialogue.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 22, 2011

A visually rich but lumbering, narratively confused genre hybrid, The Warrior's Way feels like a wildly missed opportunity for East-meets-West action mayhem.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 26, 2010

'The Warrior's Way' is one hot mess of a movie. It has the best cinematography of the year, hands down. It has ninjas, clowns and cowboys doing battle.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 14, 2010

Starts strong, ends with a slick tableaux and in between disappoints with a steady acceleration that not even a quietly charismatic performance by star Dong-Gun Jang, nor the image of a clown with a gun during the film's climactic shoot-out, can surmount

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 12, 2010

Succeeds in cutting out a distinct visual flourish amid a bland cinematic landscape.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Dec 9, 2010

While the movie seems designed to be a breakout for Jang, it's Lee whose work actually makes an impression. You guess he'll be back - hopefully, playing it straight next time.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 9, 2010

Though the film oozes visual appeal (many action sequences are rendered with comic-book vibrancy), it's short on insight and long on cliché.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 9, 2010

The Warrior's Way is an odd duck of a movie - and that doesn't even include the wire-fu/Western combination.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 7, 2010

A Samurai warrior in a gunfight? There's something wrong with this picture.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 7, 2010