CheerupSilver Very Cool!!!

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

FlashCallahan After just completing his training at a ninja school, Django, now an army vet travels to the Phillippines and finds himself battling a land grabber who wants his war-buddy's property. He must also fight his rival, who is jealous of his moustache and the fact that he is the only Ninja who gets to wear white. But does Kosugi not understand that white gets dirty quickly, and Django will spend forever and a day washing?To say anything other than this is cheese would be lying. It is cheese of the highest order, but for heavens sake, its so much fun while it lasts.Nero, I know only from Django and as the random General in Die Hard 2. And while his voice maybe dubbed, he really as no screen presence in this, and looks highly embarrassed, which adds to the charm of the film.Every Ninja movie begins with a fight with people wearing various colours of pyjama, and there is always one who takes it a little too far and ruins the whole proceedings. Nero qualifies as a Ninja by doing funny stuff with his hands, and goes to meet his friend who looks like a cut price James Caan, who is a drunk and lives with Susan George.Their land is threatened by a comedy villain and his badly dressed henchman, all the while being supported by some chubby British guy who talks like Jarvis from Iron Man.It's all silly revenge stuff, Neros face is conveniently covered whenever there is a big fight, but the last twenty minutes is hilarious, with Nero carrying more weapons than humanly possible.Not to be taken seriously by any means, but if you are a fan of eighties action, this will do nicely.

dworldeater It is unquestionable that martial arts movies are truly done best in Hong Kong. There are however some U.S. made movies of this type worth watching . Enter The Ninja is one of them. This movie I believe was the one that ignited the ninja craze in the 1980's. The white ninja Franco Nero may not know martial arts , but has charisma at least. The story and acting are not great , but it is a great excuse for some ninja action. Franco Nero and his stunt double take out bums that don't have a chance until he meets up with Sho Kosugi(who made a million ninja movies after this ). This is great campy entertainment where some of the over the top action and horrible acting would be out of place elsewhere . For B action flicks Enter The Ninja is gold, and delivers the goods . For what this is this movie is great.

HumanoidOfFlesh "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.

Jacob Back in the old days they did make some great action movies and Enter the ninja is one of them.The plot is simple and efficient. Cole (Nero) after mastering ninjitsu visits his friend Frank (Alex Courtney) in the Philippines. Frank and his gutsy wife (Susan George) are being oppressed by the local oil tycoon Charles Venarius (Christopher George) who wants to get hold of their land at all costs. What happens next probably won't be hard to guess. Above all this movie is very impressive for its' memorable characters - we had here Siegfried 'The Hook', Dollars, Mr. Parker. I think there's no need to say that Christopher George shined in this film to say the least. And his death scene at the end is really something. Well, and of course Franco Nero did a marvelous job playing ninja. And Sho Kosugi gets the credit not only for brilliantly playing the negative role but also for masterfully directing the fighting scenes. It's one of those movies that when watching you might want to partially go over again, I'm telling you, it's very spectacular.