1. 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 déjŕ vu.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. If you can't figure out why a clown shooting a ninja is forty kinds of awesome, it's not going to waste time explaining it to you.
5. An overwrought, highly-stylized, visually surreal, cliche-filled, wild and wacky kung-fu fantasy.
6. "That was completely retarded, and I would absolutely watch it again." Indeed.
7. Your first clue that you're about to see the worst flick of 2010 is the TWO Nicholas Cage trailers you endure before the movie even starts.
8. My three-word synopsis is my three-word review...cowboys and ninjas.
9. As awkward a fusion as the title is generic.
10. 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.
Based on these individual reviews, what is the critic consensus?
Perfectly, thoroughly divisive, The Warrior's Way will either be delightful or unbearable, depending on your tolerance for surreal, shamelessly over the top collisions of eastern and western clichés.