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Continuity error for 'Enter the Ninja' not listed.


There is a continuity error that I noticed in the film "Enter the Ninja" that is not listed on IMBd. In the beginning of the movie when Cole is taking his final test to become a full fledged ninja, there is a moment when Cole draws back a bow to shoot an arrow at a ninja in red standing by a tree. When he draws back the bow, the arrow he shoots is white. However when the arrow hits the tree, it is brown! Has anyone else ever noticed this?

There is another mistake I would like point out also. Near the end of the film when Cole is sneaking around the arena killing all of the head bad guy's goons in white suits, he confronts a white guy and a black guy in a dark hall and starts fiddling with sai swords. He then throws the sai which stab each man in the torso and they fall to the ground dead. Now I have experience with martial arts weapons including sai, and any martial artist will say that sai are not meant to be thrown. They are a weapon used for close quarter combat and are not designed to be thrown. It is not likely that Cole would have used this tactic. If you would like share views and opinions with me, you can e-mail me at [email protected],(no solicitation, please).

smalltownninja1973

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Oh hell, let's be honest here... It's not likely that a ninja would've even been carrying a pair of sai, tonfa, ninja-to, shoto, blowgun, bow and arrows, tanto, caltrops, shurikens and exploding powder all on one mission in the first place. Just for giggles years ago I suited up in a shinobi shozoku and donned all the weapons Cole had with him in this scene and I could barely walk straight let along kneel down on one knee without tearing my pants and forget rolling around on the groud without hurting myself. Yes sai are considered a close quarters defensive weapon, but I guarantee if I threw mine at someone like that they wouldn't stick in but they would be going to the ER for a while.LOL.

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I have heard that sai injuries would not be covered under Obamacare, UNLESS it was thrown.

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The film is a 90 min. continuity error.

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