Irredeemable

Rating: 2/10 (13 December 2010)

My husband is taking it back to video store right now to ensure we get $1 credit, we both hated it so much. I've no idea why ANYONE raves about it.
I am a 38-year-old woman who, even if it's not "high cinema", thoroughly enjoys:
1. Fight scenes, choreography, and and kung-fu. 2. Hot chicks who kick butt. 3. Gory horror and effects, even if done B (Dead Alive and Rob Zombie faves for it). 4. Historic wars and battles. 5. Strong story, even if "dude perspective". I'm not a "chick flick" chick, unless particularly over-top. Like Ginger Snaps is best description of a mense cycle ever on film. 6. Documentaries.
I got NOTHING but the OCCASIONAL decent blood-squirt. This was supposed to be stupid fun on a cold night: I wasn't expecting much but a ride. But it delivered on NOTHING.
Story's not complicated enough. Main characters/clans are NOT developed into any sort of real motivation, other than kill or get killed (a base instinct)--it's less a "no one's evil" as in Princess Monoke (first that came to mind), and more I strictly don't care about them. Costumes lame, as an art director.
The fighting--I particularly want the fighting--I'm epileptic. It's nothing but shot-too-fast, jump-cut, no real contact bull with a a bit of nice guts thrown on top. But it's like butter thrown on cardboard: yeah, the butter's good.
I don't even care to look it up: chick only real fighter. Maybe she was trained, or maybe to make her look cooler they gave her two more frames per second than the men: rest is just speed-it-up crap.
I really don't even want to think about how to make a film this bad. Only not a 1/10 for decent (but not amazing) blood effects.