A Korean warrior flees a centuries-old clan conflict for America's Old West, in this unsuccessful blend of Asian martial arts and rootin'-tootin' frontier gunplay. Ideally, writer/director Sngmoo Lee would have filled the leading role of the stoic wandering swordsman with an actor who combined Clint Eastwood and Toshiro Mifune. Unfortunately, he's saddled with Korean poster-boy Jang Dong-gun, who looks good waving a blade around but is defeated by the demands of emotional expression or comic timing. Kate Bosworth puts in a lot of effort as the tomboyish gal who befriends him when he pitches up on the prairie, but as the brooding new arrival helps her take on the marauders who killed her folks (led by scarred psycho Danny Huston), there's a striking absence of tension or culture-clash humour. After what feels like an eternity, baddies from East and West predictably clash in an extended bout of digitally manicured carnage, all of it tedious and uninvolving. For the viewer, however, the real battle is sticking it out to the end.

A warrior-assassin is forced to hide in a small town in the American Badlands after refusing a mission.