A visually rich but lumbering, narratively confused genre hybrid, The Warrior’s Way feels like a wildly missed opportunity for East-meets-West action mayhem. Lackluster pacing and ill-defined dramatic stakes make this movie — about a reticent swordsman (Jang Dong-Gun) who absconds with a baby and
takes up residence in a dusty American town full of transplanted circus
freaks, including Kate Bosworth and Geoffrey Rush — a tough sell for even its target audience. In his feature debut, writer-director Sngmoo Lee works up a film that, thematically, serves as able homage to its various touchstones, Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns among them. But Lee doesn’t seem to know where to take his story. For the full original review, from Screen International, click here. (Relativity Media, R, 100 minutes)