Zatoichi in a modern setting.
This movie has one, and only one, thing going for it, and that's Rutger Hauer. The rest is a series of forced and unlikely action scenes featuring a blind man. There are a finite number of times you can surround a blind man with gun-toting assassins before even willing audiences roll their eyes when he kills them all with a sword. This was a tough sell even back in 1989 when there was still an appetite for ninja movies.
The plot is a common rescue-the-kid story we've all seen at least once.
Some of the sword fighting is impressive. I'm no expert, but Rutger Hauer seems to have done at least some training for the role.
Other than Rutger Hauer, the acting is B-Movie quality. The main thug is particularly bad, some of the worst acting I've ever seen, and he inexplicably has several scenes featuring only him. He must have been related to someone, because I'd give the movie another star without his ridiculous growling and one-liners. Really awful stuff.
Rutger Hauer does his best, and that's just good enough to make Blind Fury watchable for free on Prime Video. I seriously doubt this movie would have been made if he hadn't taken the role, because it's doubtful many other big names would sign on.
This movie has one, and only one, thing going for it, and that's Rutger Hauer. The rest is a series of forced and unlikely action scenes featuring a blind man. There are a finite number of times you can surround a blind man with gun-toting assassins before even willing audiences roll their eyes when he kills them all with a sword. This was a tough sell even back in 1989 when there was still an appetite for ninja movies.
The plot is a common rescue-the-kid story we've all seen at least once.
Some of the sword fighting is impressive. I'm no expert, but Rutger Hauer seems to have done at least some training for the role.
Other than Rutger Hauer, the acting is B-Movie quality. The main thug is particularly bad, some of the worst acting I've ever seen, and he inexplicably has several scenes featuring only him. He must have been related to someone, because I'd give the movie another star without his ridiculous growling and one-liners. Really awful stuff.
Rutger Hauer does his best, and that's just good enough to make Blind Fury watchable for free on Prime Video. I seriously doubt this movie would have been made if he hadn't taken the role, because it's doubtful many other big names would sign on.