Sadly Over-hyped

Admirable film.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Another so-bad-it's-classic from Taiwan, from the same team who bought us MAFIA VS. NINJA. This one is along the same lines, with tons of low budget but highly entertaining martial arts bouts, although it's not quite as crazy-classic as that other film. It's still bloody weird though! This time around, Alexander Lou is a US cop who ends up being framed by his own department, and who has to escape from jail in a scene that's been clearly creatively inspired by FIRST BLOOD! What follows is one of the longest, most gratuitous and most repulsive sex scenes in movie history, and then the real story starts: yep, it turns out to be a rip-off of SUPER NINJAS, the Shaw Brothers film, complete with a gang of Five Element Ninjas out to wreak havoc! Elsewhere, other weird stuff going on includes a black policeman-cum-boxer who's pretty good at whupping backside, and some ninja training sequences that reminded me of KICKBOXER.Like 99% of these films, the longest and most elaborate fight scenes are saved for the climax, and it's in the last half hour that the fun really starts here. Things culminate in a great beach battle at the climax, one of the best I've seen, but before then there's a ton of ninja action in the woods and elsewhere. Being a Taiwanese flick, there's plenty of weirdness, with a highlight being a water ninja jet-skiing on a length of bamboo! Lou uses a block of wood and a spring (!) to jump on top of buildings, and fighters are once again spitting water when they get struck. What's best of all, though, is that the action is decent throughout, engaging and exciting in equal measure. Only fans of cheesy kung fu flicks need apply, but this is one of the funniest...

I'm a zen master, and there is various practises we employ in order to clear the mind of the everyday babble that all humans endure. One is to ask yourself "What is the sound of one ninja crapping?" and "If a ninja teleports in a forrest and no one is there to see it, does anyone give a crap?" Joseph Lai, Tomas Tang and Godfrey Ho were the undoubted masters at bringing this zen train of though to life, and here is a fine example.When I say fine, you know what I mean. It's a mid-eighties ninja film (but NOT a cut and paste film), and it's pure, unfiltered, garbage. Therefore it's great! Set initially in New York (Hong Kong with the Stars and Stripes sellotaped to various walls!), we find ourselves meeting two cops, the Chinese John and the Af-Am Spencer, being chewed out by their boss for arresting the senator's son for attempted rape – turns out the chief would have been happier if they'd let him just get on with it. This has nothing to do with anything but the fight is pretty funny.The plot itself involves John being framed for possessing drugs, escaping jail, and then trying to find out why anyone framed him in the first place. Obviously it's something to do with the drug trade but what you need to know is that there's five 'elemental ninjas' who have amazing powers (water, earth, air, fire, kebabs) that are rendered unamazing by the zero budget of the film. Watching a ninja surfing on a thin piece of bamboo or burrowing underneath sand is soothing to the soul.So John's got to go up against these dudes while having flashbacks to his own ninja training, which includes a direct rip from the start of Enter the ninja. There's a few twists and turns but no one in their right mind would care about them. These films are all about the brain damaged action and the laughs! And speaking of brain damaging, there's this brilliant bit of editing where John slumps his head over just right when the film cuts to a scene where a door is kicked open, making it look like John smashed his head on a table.Even better is the overlong sex scene (that John manages to have while the cops are looking for him) not only does this go on forever and THEN reveal that John hadn't yet taken his trousers off, but then the sexy music switches to some bizarre off kilter tune while the actress starts vibrating her arse all over the place. Genius.There are many, many battles in this one, there's stolen musical cues (like Psycho), and the usual bad dubbing. No one makes films as stupid as this anymore.

Imagine a movie that took the worst clichés of 70's gangster movies, 70's kung fu movies, 70's porn, 70's cop movies, and Power Rangers, and rolled all into one absurd mess that looked as though it had been scripted by a kindergartener. This movie was easily ten times worse than that. That being said, this is every reason to see it. From the opening scene on, I don't think I stopped laughing once. Nothing made any sense, there was not a transition to be found in the movie, and the number of rape scenes per girl (5 rape scenes, only two females in the entire movie) was quite staggering. I pulled "The Super Ninja" off the rental shelf expecting to watch a hilariously bad movie, but nothing prepared me for the jaw-droppingly awful spectacle that was the Super Ninja. It was amazing.

Brace yourself, for this is undoubtedly one of the very best and most entertaining ninja-fests ever made! This movie has it all - dubbing that seems to be perpetually about 2 seconds out of sync with the characters flapping mouths, one of, if not THE most un-erotic lovemaking scene ever committed to celluloid, a ninja surfing on a piece of bamboo(!!!) a soundtrack that liberally borrows i.e steals snippets from other movie scores such as Psycho and Star Wars and some really nifty martial arts action to boot! Simply put, if you're at all into ninja movies or for that matter B-Movies in general, then you really NEED to see this - it's a veritable classic!