Nice try, but fail.

I came in expecting to like this mind you... And I picked up on plenty of the attempts at "subtlety." I get the dog, I saw the guy stumble from the fake bullet, and I get it, he's a noble bear... I love Forest Whitaker, and I think he is both likable and a great actor. The daughter of the mob boss did her part excellently, and the surviving mob boss was decent. Whitaker pegged the intended role right on... And that's as far as it goes. The native American was just silly. The way Ghost Dog swished his gun around was more cowboy than samurai... They were about function, not flash. Every mobster was acted HORRIBLY and grossly over stereotyped. I see where Boondocks Saints 2 got it from...

Why practice forms with a sword only to use a gun? He also used no hand to hand... He uses a silly scrambler that he got... Somehow, that works on any car AND gate. Supposedly building a silencer is simple, so I buy that... But he insists on using the pigeons, but guns are cool? The very instrument to kill the samurai? And everyone seems to be cool with going gun crazy as well. Maybe if the characters methods were thought out a little better, or the mobsters were a little tougher it would have been more cohesive...

6/10 for casting a few good characters and trying to make Forest Whitaker a real life batman. I'm done now hahaha Please feel free to argue.