Pretty Good

Highly Overrated But Still Good

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

I can honestly say Thundering Ninja is a movie that I really tried to like. With an insane plot that has ninjas in pursuit of nuclear weapons to achieve global domination, that puts the ninja organisation against another ninja that is working for the CIA. That plot is amazing, but why this snoozefest spliced that together with scenes from a HK dramatic film with Jimmy Wang Yu is unknown and a really bad idea. Why they could not stay on point with the white ninjas fighting each other . This film is a mess and while it has its moments of brilliance, it is truly hard to get through from beginning to end. This could have been a contender for one of the best/worst movies ever and while there is some cool ridiculous ninja stuff going on, there is much more filler than killer. In summery Thundering Ninja is a mostly unwatchable crapfest that is inept and boring. A disappointment.

That old rascal Tomas Tang (or is it Godfrey Ho? - In fact, a certain Joseph Hong is listed as director on the version I saw!) strikes again with yet another cut and splice ninja masterwork *splutter* starring the one and only Stuart Smith (billed here as Stuart Steen). The plot? OK, here goes (brace yourselves)…………A group of evil ninja are trying to get their hands on some top secret files pertaining to a certain 'K-16 Ballistic Missile' with which they intend to take over the world. We know this to be the case because, in between laughing incessantly to himself like an idiot, the ninja boss is shown over-exemplifying this information to his decidedly gormless followers (does he have to remind them every single day?!)At the start of this film, we witness a failed attempt to nab the relevant papers wherein a number of the ninja cronies intercept a handover deal with the intention of stealing the goods (and killing the sellers!). Alas, the now dead dealers were trying to pull one over themselves and it turns out didn't even have the papers in the first place!Mightily unimpressed by this the ninja boss rebukes his followers (via a tape recorder!) and warns them to get the papers back or else.Suddenly we cut to the original film into which the ninja segments are edited. The plot concerns criminal boss Buck who (we're told) is under the ninja boss' employment. We also get to meet David, an honest guy who needs a buck or two (of the monetary variety) and who subsequently joins Buck's organisation as a debt collector of sorts. This is where things get a bit complex so bear with me…..David is estranged from his father, Mr Hong, who is a policeman investigating Buck after Buck supposedly hired a ninja to murder his wife – David's mother. David also happens to be staying with his sister June and her boyfriend Phillip.Also around this time we first get to meet God, erm – I mean Stuart Smith's character Sydney. Yep Bad acting is most definitely on the cards here as we see him exaggeratingly jogging down the street with small weights in his hands whilst pulling hilariously exaggerated facial expressions. Whilst on this rather painful looking jog Sydney is witness to a ninja murder (the ninja was spying on David and kills some poor sap who spotted him) Having obviously been inspired by Smith's overacting skills the ninja promptly runs back to his boss and puts on his best attempt at bad acting himself as he prays for forgiveness for his ineptitude. For his trouble his boss promptly kills him (how dare anyone presume to copy Smith!) We also learn now that Sydney is not only an inept exercise fanatic but also a CIA operative to! Meanwhile, David finds his new found job to be at odds with his morals and prevents his fellow debt collectors from taking cash back from a girl. Hearing this, boss Buck is none too impressed…..Sydney too is having a bit of trouble when he is suddenly set upon by two ninja in a public park. But wait…..Sydney suddenly reveals himself to be a red ninja(!) and swiftly dispatches of them (with one managing to run away to tell his boss of this somewhat dramatic development) As it happens the ninja boss (via a flashback) is already acquainted with Red ninja as they trained under the same master together.Elsewhere David is informed by Rose that he is in danger. Who the hell is Rose you may ask? Well she's Buck's mistress who he treats like shi - ahem, very badly. Rose also pays Mr. Hong a visit (remember him – David and June's dad?) and tries to tell him not to pursue his revenge plot against Buck and the ninja. However, his mind is already made up – he wants justice!David meanwhile is taught a lesson for his moral meanderings when he is given a good beat down in a parking lot whilst Sydney watches all this from behind a pillar - why the hell didn't he help?!?! - Well obviously because he's in a completely different movie!!!!!With the 1000 word limit on IMDb I'm going to have to briefly summarise events now...OK here goes....Sydney contacts Phillip who is revealed to be a white ninja(!!!), Phillip informs Mr Hong of Davids whereabouts with Buck, David and his goons beat up Phillip thus prompting June to disown her brother, Rose is murdered, Mr Hong mopes around musing his crappy life, during a training session Sydney cuts off a small birds head(!!!), Sydney and Phillip intercept the handover of the K-16 documents (but the ninja boss escapes), David tries to quit Buck's organisation thus prompting Buck to attempt to have him killed, this plan fails but David ends up in jail (but makes up with his father, June and Phillip) and finally Sydney meets up with the ninja boss for a final showdown....phew!!!Well what can I say? High art this is not but for fans of cinematic ineptitude this is gold! Of course the main attraction (and source of amusement) here is Smith himself who as always, puts in yet another hilariously dreadful performance. Every time he appears on screen laughter is absolutely guaranteed! Smith highlights? Two especially stand out as exceptionally bad, firstly his jogging scenes early on which showcase his attempts at 'exhausted' facial expressions and secondly the bizarre sequence mentioned briefly above in which during a rigorous training session he manages to slice a small bird out of the air and follows this with the most conceited look of satisfaction I have ever witnessed! You've just got to hand it to Smith, in terms of overacting, no one on earth even comes close to him! The man is God I tell you!

This must be one of the worst movies i've seen, and I've seen quit a lot of movies and also quit a lot of really bad movies. Actually, you can call me a fan of bad movies, so you shouldn't be surprised to read that this is like some kind of masterpiece to me! I'm not going to talk about the story, because it's a real mess and doesn't make any sense at all. The actors are all terrible, but I certainly need to mention Stuart Smith as Sydney who is one of the worst in the job. Watching him is painfully funny. There are 3 scenes with him (only with him, you see him hardly interact with other actors, the reason for that is explained in "Trivia") which are trill "great": * Him running in the streets on "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" by Genesis, * the scene with the little bird and his sword (you have to see this to believe it, it's hilarious) * and his phone-conversation towards the end of the movie.The dubbing and the sound-effects are lousy, the camera-work is shitty, well I can go on and on, but fans of "worst of the worst"-movies have by now understood that this is a must-have for their collection.I should give it 0/10 for obvious reasons, but also a 10/10 for entertainment value, so my final figure is a 5/10. A must see!!

This movie is SO impressive, I have watched it two times today. With no plot line or appropriate ending, I have to say I have found the best lousy ninja movie ever made. To match the caliber of the movie, I will summarize it really badly. It's for some reason about ninjas and then there is an American agent for some reason that ends up being a red ninja for whatever reason, and apparently it's important to be a red ninja. Then he fights and they use stop frame to make the ninjas vanish really poorly. Then there are ninjas blowing up and then the red ninja does his kuji-in hand movements and explodes or something then the movie is over.I bought it for 5 cents at a thrift store. I would have payed two, maybe even three times that much for a movie this good.