shinobi be one of those movie that think the mere act of kill off a character automatically bring a sense of gravitas or emotion to the story . unfortunately and for the audience to actually care about the people die and you have to develop the character and otherwise all you have be a bunch of random act of violence . the problem be especially compound when you have ton of character and all of whom die . ok and so if you can not be bother to make the character memorable or sympathetic in any way and you can at least make the reason for why they die plausible and right . nope . here we have a war between two ninja clan and with neither side really know why they be fight each other . they kill each other because the emperor say so . yet even well after it become glaringly obvious that the emperor want all of them dead and they still refuse to abandon their meaningless mission . that not stubbornness . that just plain dumb . fine and fine . there be no character development and and the plot provide no reasonable rationale for fight . at least they die fight in cool action scene and right . yet again and no . in fact and many of the fight aren not even fight at all represent super ninja that the movie spend so much time and effort introducing die suddenly ( and lamely and in my opinion ) . i be talk about thing like and lalala and i be walk along and i neck get slash . the end for that character . not even halfway through the film and i throw my hand up in frustration at the ludicrousness of it .