Granted, it shall be no secret that I was harboring no expectations as I sat down to watch the 1987 action movie "Ninja Avengers". Why? Well, it being a late 1980s ninja movie, plus the cover wasn't exactly screaming top-of-the-line movie. But hey, for nostalgic reason, as I watched a lot of ninja movies back in the 1980s, then of course I opted to watch what writers Godfrey Ho and Stephen So had to offer.
Needless to say that I had never actually heard about this movie before now in 2022, as I stumbled upon it by sheer random chance.
First of all, the movie's title is insanely misleading, as this movie is a classic 1980s style Chinese martial arts movie. Not really a ninja movie here, unless you consider someone wearing a red headband with the word "ninja" printed on it as being ninja material. And secondly, the movie was an impressive display of poor dubbing into English.
The storyline in "Ninja Avengers" was pretty basic stuff and straight forward. Yeah, you're not in for a grand cinematic experience when and if you opt to watch a movie such as "Ninja Avengers". So directors Joseph Lai and Godfrey Ho didn't exactly impress with this movie.
The martial arts in the movie, however, were actually fairly good. Well, at least the choreography, because it was blatantly obvious that there was no physical contact between this throwing a punch or doing a kick and the recipient of the aforementioned attack.
"Ninja Avengers" is not a movie that I would recommend you waste your time, money or effort on, not even if you enjoyed the good, old school ninja movies of the 1980s.
My rating of "Ninja Avengers" lands on a three out of ten stars.
