This is one of those Godfrey Ho/Joseph Lai ninja films where, just in case anyone was in any doubt, all of the ninjas wear headbands emblazoned with the word 'Ninja' and a little ninja silhouette. It's also another example of Ho and Lai combining an old film -- in this case a tedious, downbeat drama about two men, Jimmy and Micky, struggling to survive in poverty -- with totally incongruous ninja footage featuring Ho/Lai regular Richard Harrison.
Harrison plays Gordon the Golden Ninja, whose master is killed by the Black Ninja, who steals the legendary Sword of Catastrophe, a weapon that becomes more powerful with each life it takes. Gordon must find Jimmy, the only man who knows the secret of defeating the Black Ninja.
Directors Lai and Ho's lame attempts at assembling a coherent movie are laughable: Ninja Strike Force never feels like anything but a bad exercise in cut and paste, the overwrought drama of the old movie and the martial arts action mixing like oil and water. The result is 90% Jimmy and Micky washing cars, buying balloons and going to the zoo with their mentally disabled 'brother', and 10% men in colourful ninja suits leaping through the air. And never the twain shall meet.
3/10. There are many better ninja movies out there, even from Ho and Lai.
Harrison plays Gordon the Golden Ninja, whose master is killed by the Black Ninja, who steals the legendary Sword of Catastrophe, a weapon that becomes more powerful with each life it takes. Gordon must find Jimmy, the only man who knows the secret of defeating the Black Ninja.
Directors Lai and Ho's lame attempts at assembling a coherent movie are laughable: Ninja Strike Force never feels like anything but a bad exercise in cut and paste, the overwrought drama of the old movie and the martial arts action mixing like oil and water. The result is 90% Jimmy and Micky washing cars, buying balloons and going to the zoo with their mentally disabled 'brother', and 10% men in colourful ninja suits leaping through the air. And never the twain shall meet.
3/10. There are many better ninja movies out there, even from Ho and Lai.