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

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

| Original Score: F | Sep 9, 2017

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

The film's details suggest potential for a lively, bizarre, action-comedy cult classic. It just never comes together the way it needs to.

| Original Score: C | Dec 7, 2010

The ingredients here congeal into a gooey mess that is not without amusing moments.

| Dec 7, 2010

The Warrior's Way never achieves awesomeness, mostly because it never fully embraces its elementary-school playground aesthetic.

| Dec 7, 2010

To damn his agreeable campfest with faint praise, The Warrior's Way is easily the best circus-themed, martial-arts-heavy action-comedy oater of the year.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 6, 2010

"That was completely retarded, and I would absolutely watch it again." Indeed.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 5, 2010

Set in a fantastical ghost town with a resident circus troupe and filmed on studio sets, it looks like a Sergio Leone epic as staged by Fellini, or by Lars von Trier.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 3, 2010

The Warrior's Way is a visually inspired multi-genre amalgamation, a borderline-surreal folly that suggests a martial-arts action-adventure co-directed by Sergio Leone and Federico Fellini.

Full Review | Dec 3, 2010

There isn't a shred of subtlety in their clowning -- or in any part of the movie, which clumsily shoots for operatic highs and lows. But with so many borrowed bits and pieces, the only feeling it successfully evokes is déjà vu.

| Original Score: D+ | Dec 3, 2010

South Korean filmmaker Sngmoo Lee's debut feature is less a genre-spanning romp than a tiresome lab experiment in computer-generated tropes and green-screen oppressiveness.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 3, 2010