The Warrior's Way 2010

Critics score:
29 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Yeah, it's nuts. No, it's not that much fun. Action comedy, Asian sword slasher pic or martial arts mystical mumbo jumbo, this warrior never quite finds his way. Read more

Mike Hale, New York Times: 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. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: 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. Read more

Tom Russo, Boston Globe: 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. Read more

Adam Markovitz, Entertainment Weekly: 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 deja vu. Read more

Eric D. Snider, Film.com: The film's details suggest potential for a lively, bizarre, action-comedy cult classic. It just never comes together the way it needs to. Read more

Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: The ingredients here congeal into a gooey mess that is not without amusing moments. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: 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. Read more

Josh Levin, Slate: The Warrior's Way never achieves awesomeness, mostly because it never fully embraces its elementary-school playground aesthetic. Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: 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. Read more