Lack of good storyline.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

Wow. I loved martial arts movies as a kid. I studied Tae Kwon Do and I lived and breathed everything remotely pertaining to Asian fighting arts. I wanted to see this movie way back in the day but we didn't have a VCR and it didn't show in local theaters. The same goes for the Shô Kosugi's next movie, "Revenge of the Ninja." I still haven't seen it. The best I could do was see "Ninja III The Domination (which I'm now afraid to revisit).So anyway, "Enter" was a terrible movie. The movie opens up with a white ninja being chased by red ninjas in a jungle setting. Seriously? White is for snow, red is for....wtf is red for? Anyway, unbelievable. Then when the masks are off, the white ninja is a white guy. No big deal but his body is completely unsuited for martial arts, at least ninjutsu. When you think of ninjas, you think of thin acrobatic men. Franco Nero, the star, is a tallish brutish wrestler-esque dude with a 70s porn mustache. I just have no words. I have nowhere to start because there was so much wrong with this movie from the star to the plot to the lunacy of the movie logic. Hell, in the final 30 minutes, Nero, again in his white ninja outfit in tropical Manila with not a snowbank in 1000 miles, enters the building of the bad guy with two swords, a blowgun, a bow, arrows, sais, shruiken.....it's completely unbelievable. At some point he loses both his swords and yet, he still has another sword. Obviously he has mastered sphincter concealment. I admit that this review sucks because there is just so much not to like I don't know how to articulate it. I hated this movie after the first 10 minutes but I decided to gut it out until the end and now I regret it. If you want to live forever, this movie will make time feel like it is standing still.

This movie is widely considered to be the one that popularized Ninjutsu during the 80s. It was actually the second major English-language Ninja film of the 80s as it was preceded by Chuck Norris' „Octagon"(1980). Several ninja movies were made after it. Prior to the film, judo films had been popular in the 50s; karate movies in the 60s and kung-fu pictures in the 70s.This is the first of three "Ninja" movies in Cannon's Ninja series. The second and third films were "Revenge of the ninja" (1983) and "Ninja III: The Domination" (1984). Both sequels were unrelated in terms of story. Cannon also went on to make "American ninja" (1985) which spawned its own franchise (5 movies).This movie is important for one more reason. It's first major role in an English-language film for Shô Kosugi, an actual ninja practitioner who was also the movie's technical adviser and fight co-coordinator. Kosugi starred in numerous other 80s ninja movies and appeared in each of this film's sequels but playing different characters.The film's title was chosen because it was thought that it would connect and cash-in on the popularity of the earlier martial-arts box-office hit „Enter the dragon"(1973). Publicity for the film explained that Ninjutsu was "the art of invisibility". The martial art is also known as Ninpo and Ninjitsu-Ryu. Ninjas are seen in this movie with a full wardrobe of attachments and weapons. These often included a blow-gun, bola (manriki), bow & arrow, nunchaku (nunchuks), sai, shinobi-gatana, shiroken, spear-staff and tonfa.The movie is often widely believed to have been totally shot in the Phillipines, bit some of it was also shot in Japan. There is no spoken dialog in the first 10 minutes of the film. The first 15 minutes of the movie is objectively really good and the best part of the movie.If you're expecting good movie , you will be disappointed. The acting is wooden, the humor flat and everyone dies dramatically. The characters are paper thin. The plot don't make sense in some places ( What war are the characters talking about ?) If you're a fan of ninja movies this is a must see. If you're a fan of "so bad , it's good" movies you NEED to see this. It's comedy gold.Franco Nero ("Django") is the star of the movie. Since had no martial arts training he was doubled by writer and fight choreographer Mike Stone for the fight sequences. It's terribly obvious , because most of the fight scenes shown main hero's back while fighting. Nero himself has no charisma or talent . The best thing about him is his mustache.You GOTTA love the over the top sound effects. When somebody shots an arrow or throws the sound is of laser shooting ! There is evil guy nicknamed "The Hook" , because he … has a hook ! "Let's have a cock fight !" , "Hang on ". Christopher George is brilliantly overacting and his death scene is THE BEST EVER.If you can't spend an evening laughing wildly at this , well , then there is something wrong with your sense of humor. Watch out for Michael Dudikoff (the future star of "American ninja") as one of the Venarius men. I give it 2/10.

ENTER THE NINJA fails as an action movie. As far as exploitation elements are concerned it's not particularly gory nor does Susan George (or anyone else) get naked. It's shot in a mostly perfunctory TV-movie style and some of the music accompanying the fight scenes would be appropriate for a Saturday morning kids' cartoon show. The story is just a procession of one cliché after the other. But don't let any of that dissuade you! With its risible dialog and comic book plot, clumsily executed, this movie can be a laugh riot.For his part, Sho Kosugi fares better here as a stone-faced villain than he ever did as a (stone-faced) hero in REVENGE OF THE NINJA or RAGE OF HONOR. Then there's Christopher George, who fiercely overacts throughout the entire film in the hammiest way possible and gets one of the most memorably goofy death scenes ever. I certainly can't recommend ENTER THE NINJA for any thrilling action or riveting suspense (there's none, really), but as a laugh out-loud unintentional comedy it's pretty darn fun. And it stars the original "Django" himself, Franco Nero, who somehow always comes off totally cool even when appearing in the crappiest of movies. Here dubbed by an American and conspicuously replaced by a stunt double in 80% of the action scenes, Nero is still The Man -- porn 'stache, wide lapels and all.

"Enter the Ninja" is the first of the trilogy.The other two are Sam Firstenberg's "Revenge of The Ninja", and "Ninja III: The Domination".Franco Nero plays white ninja and Sho Kosugi plays black ninja.Nero is helping a husband and wife try to stop the trouble gangs are causing where they live(in Phillipines)."Enter the Ninja" is a very cheesy martial arts flick with plenty of bloody violence.The weapons of ninja include sai,shinobi-gatana,tonfa,nunchaku,manriki,blowgun,shiroken,bow and arrow and spear-staff.The use of smoke bombs is also quite effective.Despite the violence the film is often light-hearted and quite humorous.The final showdown between Nero and Kosugi is truly memorable.7 ninjas out of 10.