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"You forgot your pants..."
What a car wreck of a movie! It's so bad you can't help but to watch it. Another film with the Golan-Globus seal of quality! Yeesh!! Nobody can act in this film except the kid, who outdoes everybody! Painful dialogue, lousy production values and Salt Lake City, Utah standing in for Los Angeles. Think of this film as a showcase for the wide array of ninja weaponry/gadgets shown and used and it's sort of worth your time. Expect any more than that and you will be sorely dissappointed. Real 80's cheese at it's best (or is it worst?). The gangbangers look like rejects from a Village People audition! Was this supposed to look menacing back then??! This film, however, did start a ninja craze back in the 80's and was popular enough for ninjitsu master (and star), Sho Kushugi, to make several more films (most went straight to video), and appear in a TV series (The Master, starring Lee Van Cleef as a ninja! Sho was his ninja arch enemy and made several appearances in the show). All this being said, I was impressed with the video quality of this dvd. The video is so sharp and clear that if it wasn't for the cars and clothes that gave away the true age, you would've sworn they just shot the film yesterday! It's not letterboxed, which is a shame, but since this plays like a bad made-for-cable-tv movie, it fits the full-screen format very well. If you're a ninja fan or want the nostalgia trip of seeing this film again (I hadn't seen it since I saw it in theaters as a teenager way back when), you might have fun with it. Everybody else, stay far away...!

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We got ninjas, all kinds of ninjas!
If you only watch one ninja movie all year, this should be the one. It's flawless. The action never stops and the kid who plays Sho Kosugi's son is especially good. He's a kid ninja! There's also a granny ninja! And the two main ninjas engage in some of the best fight scenes ever staged. Add to this a campy sense of humor(one of the Mob enforcers is dressed like Tonto and fights with tomahawks that he pulls from under his vest,and some of the fight scenes involve short funny slapstick bits. And did I mention the granny ninja?) and you have a movie that gives you a tremendous Bang for your entertainment buck.I'm going to say that this is THE definitive ninja film of all time. This is the movie that firmly established the ninja film as a legitimate sub-genre in American film.

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What a fun movie to watch!!!
This movie was great. The action was non-stop and it was even a little funny in spots. Some of the stunts were a bit over the edge and they wound up looking pretty numb. Yes, the special effects are a little rough but man does the fight scenes make up for it in the long run. Sho Kosugi kicks major butt in this flick. Probably the strongest film of its genre, I've seen many by comparison and they just don't stand up. Kosugi's real son had a role in the film. Watch out for that little man, he'll whoop yours and my butts at the same time. I give it a 4.5 otta five. A must have if you can find it.