Well, straight off the bat, it has to be said that the first 10 or so minutes of this movie are absolutely hilarious!
The scene where the decidedly gormless bunch of ninja accidentally leave behind one of their number whilst making a rather hopeless car getaway had me in absolute hysterics. So to did the obvious dummy that flew about 50 feet like a guided missile out through the windscreen of the same car a few seconds earlier (believe it or not it was actually the hero of the movie!)
Sadly however, after such a dramatic (and side splittingly funny) opening, the film suddenly nose dives and becomes pretty much interminably boring for the rest of its duration save for a number of scenes in which our hero is seen undergoing rigorous hand conditioning exercises whilst pulling a very stupid facial expression - much akin to having just been kicked very hard in the testes!
In fact, the term 'hero' can only loosely be applied to the main protagonist here though, as it transpires that after kidnapping a child in this, he allows him to die by not supplying the child insulin for his diabetic condition!!!
If only the whole film could have maintained the energy and fun of the first ten mins, this would have been a classic. As it is however, I sadly, really can't recommend it.
The scene where the decidedly gormless bunch of ninja accidentally leave behind one of their number whilst making a rather hopeless car getaway had me in absolute hysterics. So to did the obvious dummy that flew about 50 feet like a guided missile out through the windscreen of the same car a few seconds earlier (believe it or not it was actually the hero of the movie!)
Sadly however, after such a dramatic (and side splittingly funny) opening, the film suddenly nose dives and becomes pretty much interminably boring for the rest of its duration save for a number of scenes in which our hero is seen undergoing rigorous hand conditioning exercises whilst pulling a very stupid facial expression - much akin to having just been kicked very hard in the testes!
In fact, the term 'hero' can only loosely be applied to the main protagonist here though, as it transpires that after kidnapping a child in this, he allows him to die by not supplying the child insulin for his diabetic condition!!!
If only the whole film could have maintained the energy and fun of the first ten mins, this would have been a classic. As it is however, I sadly, really can't recommend it.
