Hahahahahaha, the battle scene on the beach ranks as one of the funniest scenes in cinematic history.
I remember the one ninja who shot the arrow and Michael Dudakoff caught it and threw it back at him and kill him. Brilliant!
the fight scene was good they cud of added some realism to it, like the ninja standing, and falls down wen dudikoff throws the stick at him, and when the ninja who has dudikoff on the neck wit his rope, doesnt do anythin but stands there.
shareThe worst fight choreography in the whole movie is in that beach scene with the ninjas. I was so disappointed in that when I first saw it. What the hell happened there? They must have been in a serious rush when they shot that sequence. So much of it looks like rehearsal takes with everyone, including Dudikoff, moving ridiculously slow.
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Whatever happened to the phrase: "Only a Ninja can stop a Ninja"?
Everyone was beating the crap out of Ninjas in these films.
We see guys holding swords like they were baseball bats, then there is ofcourse Superman Curtis who moves slower than a cow but is able to deck a fully trained and dedicated Ninja like he was 80 years old and out of practice, and since when do Ninjas take orders from anyone else but their master?
Oh and I forgot: Ninjas work in concealment and rarely showed themselves in daylight. So Ninjas in broad daylight in a bar on a tropical island filled with tourists? Naaaah...I don't think so.
If it hadn't been for Michael Dudikoff pulling off a great performance and lots of really good physical acting, the American Ninja movies would suck.
Uniformed Ninjas, yes. The history of the ninja clans was littered with ninja who operated in plain sight without being noticed. A bit like hiding a tree in a forest
shareNinja are masters of disguise, which is why no-one ever spots a gang of men clad head to foot in black creeping around brightly lit, white rooms.
As for their combat skills, they're supposedly invincible ninja, yet the head ninja tears through them like they're stunt doubles in a cheesy action flick. Oh, hang on... Nevertheless, surely the men paying for these ninja would want the actual best, not some rentagoons in pyjamas.
As for all the traditional weapons, I hope they plan on working on Han's Island, or somewhere else that doesn't allow guns. Unless there's a gimmick like in Drive, where they can't shoot at Mark Dacascos due to his bio-implant, martial arts films don't work in a modern setting. Guns trump any martial art. Yes, Mr Gracie, even BJJ.
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shareSo many scenes make me laugh but especially the one where the ninja throws a hookline to Dudikoff's car and then seems surprised when he gets dragged with it!
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I bet James Cameron saw this movie and decided to use the Ninja-crawling-on-moving-car bit for Terminator 2, replacing the Ninja with the T-1000 machine.
But you guys seem to be forgetting that the "ninjas" in this movie hadn't got any *real* Ninja-training, they were just dressed up monkey-men dancing around in circles doing clown tricks, while being used as target practice by that lazy-eyed dude.
LMAO. Yes. That was a hilarious scene, but there are just too many hilarious scenes in this movie.
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Also had the worlds bluntest swords :-)
shareI remember the one ninja who shot the arrow and Michael Dudakoff caught it and threw it back at him and kill him. Brilliant!share
I loved how the ninjas ran around in broad daylight clad in the most ridiculously conspicuous black garb. Hilarious stuff!
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Personally I loved how the ninjas (supposedly these deadly assassins and warriors) were so utterly useless at everything in this movie. It was really funny.
shareYeah, but when I saw this as a kid, I thought "Hey, I could do that. I could be a ninja!!"
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He doesn't throw the arrow back at him, he throws a sword that was in his other hand. I had to rewind to be sure, because I thought he threw the arrow too. That beach scene was just the worst though, I agree. Like someone else said, everyone was moving so slow and clearly just running and stopping on a specific spot to fight.
The whole movie has that fun, fantastic, 'so bad it's good' vibe that was so prevalent in cheesy 80s flicks. I mean the plot is about scientifically created super ninjas, they literally call them that in the movie...
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I agree. It was like the Keystone Cops of the ninja world. They sneak up on Joe, but instead of silently jumping down off of the rock and attacking him, the ninja yells in the air a stereotypical karate move, which alerts Joe that he's about to be attacked. The arrow scene was classic, though I think he threw the sword at the ninja, not an arrow. Joe easily cuts one ninjas sword in half as he's pulling it out of his scabbard. That fight scene was just downright hilarious.
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