Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Alistair Olson After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Mr-Fusion There are movies you can write off as just being lousy, rife with bad acting and b-level production values. "Revenge of the Ninja" is not one of them. It's got both, yeah, but they're cogs in a greater piece of machinery; one that takes all manner of incongruous ingredients and somehow whips them up into a heady stew of lurid fun. It's not just ninjas killing all sorts of people, there's also a sexy hot tub assassination, the sweet bod on Ashley Ferrare, shameless violence, and the thugs are all graduates of the Village People school of bad guys. And our hero drives an El Camino! I hold this in pretty high regard along with "Silent Night Deadly Night 2", two movies that, having done the math, shouldn't be nearly so entertaining. The plot doesn't make sense, but we're really here for the energetic fight scenes (wall-to-wall, baby). Bad guy takes a dagger to the face, and I'm just as likely to cheer as laugh. In no way did I expect a Cannon movie to be this awesome, but color me happily surprised.It is glorious! 8/10

Scott LeBrun Martial arts icon Sho Kosugi plays Cho Osaki, a Japanese man whose family is brutally obliterated by a troupe of evil ninjas. Realizing that a fresh start may be good for him, he accepts the offer from associate Braden (Arthur Roberts) to come and live in America and be Bradens' business partner. Braden, however, turns out to be a drug smuggling, evil son of a bitch who is also schooled in the ways of the ninja. Refusing to cooperate with local police (for whatever reason), Cho must soon come to the rescue of his son Kane (played by Kosugis' real-life son Kane) when the child is witness to a killing.Director Sam Firstenberg began his career in action films with this agreeable bit of action packed nonsense. He may have been a newcomer to the action genre at the time, but was wise to surround himself with people who knew what they were doing; in addition to star and fight choreographer Kosugi, notable crew include stunt coordinator Steve Lambert (who shows up on screen as the cowboy goon). Competently executed (if not particularly well written), "Revenge of the Ninja" benefits from a very tongue in cheek approach. There are some pretty dopey moments throughout, especially when Chos' friend Cathy (sexy blonde Ashley Ferrare) actually goes to battle with young Kane! There are some delightfully gory (and hilarious) gags here and there when various morons fall victim to ninja weapons. Firstenberg, Kosugi, Lambert and company get down to business very quickly, with their first major set piece taking place just minutes into the movie.The acting, for the most part, could charitably be described as not so hot, but that doesn't mean that the characters aren't engaging or entertaining in their own way. Kosugi is a stubborn hero, Roberts an amusing bad guy. Familiar faces in small roles include John LaMotta, Professor Toru Tanaka, and Don Shanks.The undeniable highlight is the final, extended rooftop battle between Osaki and Braden. Our villain sure shows some real ingenuity at times!Seven out of 10.

BrickNash This was the first Kosugi film I saw of his series and I have to say it spoiled me rotten.I wasn't too Impressed with the other films that he starred in, although I fully recognise his place in bringing about the ninja film boom in the 80's but most of his films seemed to be low budget nonsense with not much 'ninja' involved.None of this applies in this film. Cannon obviously gave the film enough money to look (for the time) reasonably glossy and director Sam Firstenberg, while no James Cameron, does a great job with the so-so but not entirely awful story.The movie has fleshed out fight scenes that occur pretty regularly within the film, keeping the obligatory acting parts to just enough and no more. The fights are respectably choreographed by Kosugi himeslf and while they don't have the speed and flair of Hong Kong action films they stand up as strong, well thought out pieces of work that are enjoyable to watch.The film greatly benefits from a really great bad guy. Arthur Roberts is good as the snake like psudo friend Braden but is even better as the evil, and quite scary Braden-Ninja who disposes of his enemies in a number of imaginative, gruesome and highly enjoyable ways.There are inclusions of some traditional ninja weapons and tools in the film which is nice to see, although while a flame thrower is hardly traditional I'm sure if ancient ninja were alive today they would make use of modern technology to get the job done.Probably the most striking aspect of the film is that, for a movie made in 1983, it is particularly gory and violent for that time with full views of shurikens embedded in heads and eyes and arms being sliced off. It might not seem so harsh these days what with Stallone doing a great job of updating the 80's action hero with Rambo and The Expendables, but at that time it seems a lot of work went into the film and the effort seems to have paid off so well done.A great film for ninja fans, or even just something to watch with a few mates for the grisly deaths.Definitely stands head and shoulders above the rest of the 80's ninja sludge.

mandelmanden The only thing worse than acting was, the fightscenes. And of course the plot was a laughing matter. Poor choreography, poor dialogue, poor acting, a 6 year old that defeats adults with his martial arts skills and in general so many laughable clichés (the mafia guy has an Indian chief (who's the most non-native-American looking guy in the world) and so many poorly executed scenes make this movie a complete farce... 1½ hours of time wasted and a good evening ended because the poor quality of this movie hypnotised everyone to sleep.The only redeeming quality I can think of was the healthy amounts of blood when the evildoer is finally brought down by our courageous hero. Of course not until after the evil boss guy has defeated him time and time again almost casually. Several times fooling him with the help of mechanical dolls of himself that somehow materialise out of thin air when needed the most.I've watched I don't know how many kung-fu, samurai and ninja movies and I can honestly say that none of them has been as poor as this one.