Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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.

kankawin25013 Many movies about Ninja have introduced to us because of interesting culture and action. However, you can't trust that every Ninja movie are good. Revenge of Ninja is one example of Ninja movies' "fault".Somebody in this page maybe praised this movie and like it because how it present the action flick. But for me, unreasonable things came up all of 90 minutes. Did you think that a lot of henchmen with the machine guns can lose to an "one and only" police who just punched them? Yes, he is not John McClaine or The Terminator or JCVD, but is this foolish us?I am laugh at the interview of Sam Firstenberg, the director, which was posted in this page's trivia. If he thought that he is the best director, I don't think so. He is just an "amateur" director. Bad arrangement of the story, some unreasonable scenes, and particularly the "kidslike" action scene. You put many of Ninja weapons in the movie, but only end in very silly way? I can guarantee that all of you will shocked when everything is over. Oh! Bring my money back!For the cast, Arthur Roberts was OK with his villain role, but Shô Kosugi failed. He had no look of the great protagonist, especially when he still think that "his friend" didn't betrayed him. How fool? However, I praised of Kane Kosugi due to his action ability and maybe this movie made him "the second protagonist" because he appeared in many scenes liked he was the main hero.I accept that Ninja has a very exclusive character and style. But if you didn't understand it so good, please don't think that you can pick it up and film it easily, because you are trying to "bullsh*t" the audience. Thus, I firmly think that we have other good Ninja movies to watch rather than Revenge of the Ninja.

lost-in-limbo The follow up to "Enter the Ninja", sees Cannon productions this time set the action mostly in America for "Revenge of the Ninja". Quite an improvement over the original, but still a clumsy and cheap low-grade b-affair. However that doesn't knock just how much fun it is to watch. Ninjas doing their stuff are truly a sight to behold… even though the stunt work here was less than graceful. At least it did up the ante, numerous carnage and frenetic set-pieces. Shô Kosugi returns, but this time the leading man and also playing the good guy. His character Cho is forced to leave Japan with his son and mother, after his family was slaughtered by a band of ninja assassins. He flees to America with the help of a friend who becomes his business partner, but unknowingly to him he's being used with his valuable dolls being used to traffic heroine. Although his mother did warn him "I do not trust this man, my son". The plot is rather slight, unassuming and secondary to the on-screen damage (gushing blood and ripped clothing) and dramatic ninja combat. So it delivers on what you want. Some scenes are rather humorous (unintentional of course) and random. Plenty of child beatings. Like the sequences of his young son practicing his martial arts on bullies… well just say every scene where it has the kid battling on (and squealing while doing so) is quite rib-tickling. What we wait for is the ultimate battle… and it is a good one too. Friend vs. friend. In costume, swords, ninja stars and wait a flame thrower. It's quite a long, legendary standoff. However we do not have wait around as it still comprises of some enjoyable exchanges where Cho goes after some thugs who steal his dolls. This makes him upset. There he battles Chief. An American Indian who bestows some tomahawks. Chief vs. Ninja. "If anyone gets in the way, scalp them." After that ordeal, he doesn't look all that great. Tattered and bruised with his clothing hanging off him, after literally going for a ride, but still better dress than the next group of thugs he takes on. Which leads to some violence in a kid's playground being condoned, where four bad-ass posers (with questionable fashion sense) hang out and get their asses whipped by Cho. It's an on-going cycle, but hard not to admire.Everything moves by at a fast clip, even though the editing is somewhat jaunty, but the cinematography is masterfully judged, the shonky electronic score is addictive and the slow motion is beautiful. Slow-mo and violence is always a win-win. Can't go wrong with a hobo informant getting a ninja star in the face and then diving into a water fountain… while being caught in slow-mo. Just beautiful. The performances are lifeless, but honestly who cares here. A serious looking Shô Kosugi equips himself well enough, Keith Vitali hones down that evil cackle and Ashley Ferrare is the eye-candy under hypnosis.Silly, over-the-top and entertaining b-grade ninja hokum.

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.