Here my friends, is a veritable Z-movie classic!
All the ingredients for a sure fire, fun filled evening are present in great abundance in this: Dire dubbing/dialogue, a suitably goofy plot, lots of fighting/action and a plethora of scenes that will leave your mouth agape as you ask yourself...'What the hell just happened there?!'
As with all the other ninja movies by Godfrey Ho, what we are witness to here is a completely separate and non-ninja related film into which some newly shot ninja footage has been spliced, whilst an illusionary link between the two unrelated stories is created and sustained by the over dubbing.
It has to be said, that in the majority of these cut and splice ninja outings, only the ninja footage is of any real fun. However, in the case of Ninja Terminator, BOTH 'movies' prove to be highly enjoyable!
In the non ninja sequences we have one ultra cool dude by the name of Jaguar Wong. Now let me tell you that this guy gets in more fights in this one movie than most professional boxers have in their entire career! Not only that but he wins every time with the utmost ease - in fact he's just soooooo cool! (although he does get a bit roughed up during the films climax by the always excellent Hwang Jang Lee) And.....to top it all off, seemingly just to demonstrate just how cool he really is, he has a constant smirk on his face during all this action!!!! Wow! - What a man! Move over James Bond!
The ninja sequences are equally as energetic with loads of sword play, acrobatics and people disappearing in plumes of smoke etc. (and of course, as he often does in these films, Richard Harrison wearing heavy mascara!)
But the best bit of all just has to be the rather bizarre method the ninja empire utilises to send messages to traitors......they send a toy robot!!!!!!!
Who the hell thought that one up?!
It really is a credit to the actors concerned here, that they managed to keep straight faces during scenes like that!
All in all, if you have a good sense of humour then you should rush out and watch this movie straight away! - It's all good natured (demented) fun!
All the ingredients for a sure fire, fun filled evening are present in great abundance in this: Dire dubbing/dialogue, a suitably goofy plot, lots of fighting/action and a plethora of scenes that will leave your mouth agape as you ask yourself...'What the hell just happened there?!'
As with all the other ninja movies by Godfrey Ho, what we are witness to here is a completely separate and non-ninja related film into which some newly shot ninja footage has been spliced, whilst an illusionary link between the two unrelated stories is created and sustained by the over dubbing.
It has to be said, that in the majority of these cut and splice ninja outings, only the ninja footage is of any real fun. However, in the case of Ninja Terminator, BOTH 'movies' prove to be highly enjoyable!
In the non ninja sequences we have one ultra cool dude by the name of Jaguar Wong. Now let me tell you that this guy gets in more fights in this one movie than most professional boxers have in their entire career! Not only that but he wins every time with the utmost ease - in fact he's just soooooo cool! (although he does get a bit roughed up during the films climax by the always excellent Hwang Jang Lee) And.....to top it all off, seemingly just to demonstrate just how cool he really is, he has a constant smirk on his face during all this action!!!! Wow! - What a man! Move over James Bond!
The ninja sequences are equally as energetic with loads of sword play, acrobatics and people disappearing in plumes of smoke etc. (and of course, as he often does in these films, Richard Harrison wearing heavy mascara!)
But the best bit of all just has to be the rather bizarre method the ninja empire utilises to send messages to traitors......they send a toy robot!!!!!!!
Who the hell thought that one up?!
It really is a credit to the actors concerned here, that they managed to keep straight faces during scenes like that!
All in all, if you have a good sense of humour then you should rush out and watch this movie straight away! - It's all good natured (demented) fun!