Featured Audience Ratings

• Cory T

  
  Refashioning Zatoichi into a zany, Americanized B-movie turns out to be a rollickingly fun idea. Rutger Hauer, the Dutch automaton, is a Vietnam veteran who lost his sight during the war and was trained by villagers on the art of being a samurai warrior. The swordplay is played for… More
  Refashioning Zatoichi into a zany, Americanized B-movie turns out to be a rollickingly fun idea. Rutger Hauer, the Dutch automaton, is a Vietnam veteran who lost his sight during the war and was trained by villagers on the art of being a samurai warrior. The swordplay is played for flippant silliness in a bar where Hauer accidentally bludgeons thugs with his cane but a climactic duel with an Asian swordsman is extremely fast-paced and exhilarating. Cheesy moments are inherent in such high-concept material but Hauer is sardonic ("I also do circumcision") and briskly strolls through the scant plot.

• Anthony L

  
  The most talked about film in my school's playground in 1989 and I've been wanting to see it ever since. A shame then that it comes as a huge disappointment 21 years later when I finally get to see it. It seems only 9 year old boys enjoy this cheap and horrible Zatoichi… More
  The most talked about film in my school's playground in 1989 and I've been wanting to see it ever since. A shame then that it comes as a huge disappointment 21 years later when I finally get to see it. It seems only 9 year old boys enjoy this cheap and horrible Zatoichi influenced abomination. I still like Rutger Hauer though.

• Conner R

  
  The definition of a 90s action movie, so bizarre-yet-cool. Rutger Hauer essentially plays Daredevil, too bad this wasn't Daredevil because he would've made it amazing. This has some negative aspects, like an annoying kid and too many cheesy antics. However, the good out ways… More
  The definition of a 90s action movie, so bizarre-yet-cool. Rutger Hauer essentially plays Daredevil, too bad this wasn't Daredevil because he would've made it amazing. This has some negative aspects, like an annoying kid and too many cheesy antics. However, the good out ways the bad. At the end of it all, it's fun, brutal and stylish. The level of Hauer Power is at an all time high and if this was a judge of his acting it would surely get infinite stars.

• EightThirty .

  
  21/03/2010 (TELEVISION) It's a fun movie to watch with the family and it keeps entertaining the whole room with a nice story, cheap but well timed comedy and reasonable action to go with it. This would of got 5 stars if I was still eight years old, I mean these are the films… More
  21/03/2010 (TELEVISION) It's a fun movie to watch with the family and it keeps entertaining the whole room with a nice story, cheap but well timed comedy and reasonable action to go with it. This would of got 5 stars if I was still eight years old, I mean these are the films that I kept rewinding on VHS to watch over and over again but now... I don't feel the same, but I'll still consider it a classic in my library for all the enjoyment it gave me as a kid. Its not a 'Must See' but it puts on a good show.

• xGary X

  
  Daft by the numbers action movie that helped Rutger Hauer become firmly rooted in the "straight to video" league. It's still much better than most Van Damme/Seagal movies though...

• danny d

  
  great flick

• Dean M

  
  Rutger Hauer's perfect in his performance that is crammed with almost non-stop action on swordfighting.

• Lesley N

  
  Cheesy, corny and some other food stuffy 80's comedy about a blind martial arts expert trying to return the son of his army buddy to his gambling dad, except the loan sharks keep getting in his way. Between Rutger Hauer and his wooden cane sword, I'd give best actor Oscar… More
  Cheesy, corny and some other food stuffy 80's comedy about a blind martial arts expert trying to return the son of his army buddy to his gambling dad, except the loan sharks keep getting in his way. Between Rutger Hauer and his wooden cane sword, I'd give best actor Oscar to the cane.

• Deb S

  
  Rutger Hauer stars as Nick Parker a blind Vietnam veteran with extraordinary sensory abilities that allow him to fight crime with a walking stick with spear heads on it. He becomes the guardian of a kid named Billy(Brandon Call) who thugs are trying to kidnap and use him to get the… More
  Rutger Hauer stars as Nick Parker a blind Vietnam veteran with extraordinary sensory abilities that allow him to fight crime with a walking stick with spear heads on it. He becomes the guardian of a kid named Billy(Brandon Call) who thugs are trying to kidnap and use him to get the boy's father Frank (Terry O'Quinn) to make designer drugs for their Nevada casino boss MacCready (Noble Willingham). Nick must protect his friend's son from these hoodlums and, most entertainingly, ninja master Shô Kosugi in a dazzling, show-stealing action sequence.

• Sylvester K

  
  Mediocre cliche classic

• Lee K

  
  Might sound lame, but believe it or not this movie is anything but. I love Rutger Hauer in anything he does. Worth a look good storyline and and a overall good action flick!

• Barry L

  
  Excellent at the time.

• Anthony V

  
  Interesting take on Zatoichi.

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