Feiyang is the spoiled son of a Chinese nobleman, who studies martial arts with his teacher Old Wei. Feiyang doesn't seem too interested, and Wei regularly bests him. One day, without warning, Feiyang's father has him tied up and thrown in a dungeon. When he finally manages to escape, he finds his father and household slaughtered, and Wei gone. Presuming, incorrectly, that Wei killed them all, he sets off for vengeance.

He discovers his mistake, but after too long an interval to hold the audience's attention, and is shortly captured, conscripted into the army, assigned as a bodyguard to the king, betrayed, conscripted into a different army, etc. etc.

The whole sequence doesn't make a lot of sense, with people switching loyalties or making big decisions with little motivation or reason, and big stretches of time being skipped over without context. It's hard to follow. But that wouldn't be so bad if the fight scenes were glorious and entertaining. Needless to say, there are a few Baa Ram Ewe movies I've seen that barely held together plot wise, but Warrior Assassin doesn't have a Tony Jaa or Jeeja Yanin, or even a Jackie Chan or Jet Li, to inject the magic. The fight choreography is fine, but pedestrian. The battles often go on pointlessly past the time when the viewer cares.

In short, Warrior Assassin doesn't cohere as a film. It's not awful, just unfocused and uninspiring. There are much better martial arts and / or Chinese historical epics out there which would be better investments of your time. As far as this film goes, Rent It.

The DVD

Video:
The image is 1.78:1 widescreen, and doesn't look great. It appears that it was shot on low quality HD, with a too sharp image and flat colors.

Sound:
Audio is available in Dolby 5.1 channel Mandarin and English, with English and Spanish subtitles. The sounds is all competent, but not terribly accomplished.

Extras:
The only extras were trailers for Ninja Masters, Kingdom of Conquerors, and Mortal Enemies.

Final Thoughts:
Warrior Assassin isn't spectacularly bad, it was simply ill served by a meandering and confusing plot and moderately competent but unexciting fight choreography. Audiences don't watch this kind of movie to see dull fisticuffs, they want pizazz and marvel. That's not available here. The film is ultimately disappointing.