Contentar
Best movie of this year hands down!
ChicDragon
It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.
jadavix
Nobody expects "Citizen Kane" with exploitation crap like this, but you do expect to be entertained. You won't be. "Enter the Ninja" is boring garbage, dreadfully filmed in washed out colour as though someone put the footage through a washing machine, and dubbed so atrociously that you would think the actors all spoke Swahili on set. Franco Nero is miscast: can you imagine a hard bitten Spaghetti Western outlaw donning a ninja costume and taking out scores of thugs? After watching this movie, I still can't imagine that, and I apparently just saw it... well, I saw Nero's stunt double do it.There's a weird, chubby little German villain with a hook for a hand who is perhaps the movie's only imaginative touch. The Nero character is informed by his old war buddy that he is impotent - cut to a scene where the war buddy's wife jumps into bed with the hero! Huh? What are we supposed to make of that, that Nero's character is such a great guy he'll even satisfy his best friend's wife? On what universe would such an act be considered heroic?The plot is something to do with an evil rich guy who wants to steal the war buddy's land. Why he would want it, and would be willing to send waves of henchmen after it when he could afford better land anywhere else, is a question the movie doesn't try to answer.If you're after violence, or just ridiculous special effects, you're going to need a friend to nudge you awake a few times when the actual violent bits occur. A better friend, on the other hand, might just let you sleep through the whole movie.
dworldeater
It is unquestionable that martial arts movies are truly done best in Hong Kong. There are however some U.S. made movies of this type worth watching . Enter The Ninja is one of them. This movie I believe was the one that ignited the ninja craze in the 1980's. The white ninja Franco Nero may not know martial arts , but has charisma at least. The story and acting are not great , but it is a great excuse for some ninja action. Franco Nero and his stunt double take out bums that don't have a chance until he meets up with Sho Kosugi(who made a million ninja movies after this ). This is great campy entertainment where some of the over the top action and horrible acting would be out of place elsewhere . For B action flicks Enter The Ninja is gold, and delivers the goods . For what this is this movie is great.
trashgang
Enter The Ninja came out on the now famous Cannon label. It was the start of Cannon's legendary action movies and also Enter The Ninja is the godfather of the American ninja flicks. It started the craziness of ninja flicks in the eighties. So it took me exactly 30 years to discover this flick due that I'm collecting VHS and came across many Cannon flicks. This one is luckily available on DVD but so many Cannon's aren't. Don't expect to have a real gem hear. The actors weren't that good and it's more about the fighting scene's that you watch it. The effects used were the real stuff, CGI wasn't available back then for a flick that only costs a million and half dollars to make. But it is a classic and also a Franco Nero classic. Many do find the fight scene's laughable and stupid but again, this was made by a label known for low budget flicks, exploitation and horror (Lifeforce "Tobe Hooper" was their first outcome). Just watch it for fun.
jasonsomers
This is one of those movies that is so bad it is awesome!!! It has everything an early eighties movie needs: Flared pants, Big Moustaches, Chicks with Farrah Hair, and most importantly, NINJAS!!!! I have a few choice moments to recant for you. Cole's army buddy has a strange monkey-like face and always seems to speak without moving his jaw. He gets his ass handed to him about every other scene by the thugs wanting his land so he gets drunk through the entire film. At one point his farm workers finally return after being run off by the gangster guy's hired goons and Frank, I think his name is Frank, is so moved he shouts to the whole group "Lets Have A Cock Fight!!" and they all gleefully move to the cock fighting area of the farm to begin the festivities. This is funny on every level possible. Whether you take it dirty or literally it still warms my heart. Another funny thing is Sho Kosugi's little grunts and over animated ninja style movements. I remember this dude from when I was a kid and he used to say he was the world's only real ninja (he had ads in martial arts magazines) if I remember correctly. My friends and I were a little ninja crazy during the time this movie came out and I can recall seeing it in the local theater many times. I was wondering as I watched this on Starz last night why every sleazy American gangster type always has a stronghold in the Phillipines and wears a white Steve Martin suit. As a matter of fact this guy goes way beyond that in requiring all of his thugs to wear white Steve Martin suits. There is a scene where it looks like 20 Steve Martin impersonators are attacking a 1970's Sears underwear model (Cole). As we wind up for the final battle Cole very clumsily breaks into the bad guy's headquarters and is immediately spotted by a secretary who in turn alerts a guard who fires off a round from his pump action shotgun not 30 feet from the bad guys and no one seems to notice or care. Cole, Wearing a completely white ninja outfit, proceeds to sneakily ascend a staircase then does a flip right into the area where all the bad guys are. The second in charge tells him he didn't need to kill everybody as they were expecting him, then gives him a ride to the bad guys huge Cock Fighting arena. Don't ask me why Cock Fighting is a huge part of this movie but it is. When they arrive Cole is still wearing his ninja mask even though everyone involved knows what he looks like without it. The final battle is approaching as Cole has killed everybody and now Sho, as I like to call him, reveals himself to have kidnapped Cole's lady aka Frank's wife, and they meet in the snazziest cockfighting arena you ever saw. Sho then, very politely I might add, releases said lady and the battle is about to start. They do their bowing and start circling each other, both masked by the way. When they join in battle it appears Cole becomes someone else intermittently ala "Finishing The Game" a funny spoof on completing Bruce Lee's "Game of Death". Cole eventually comes out on top, Kills Sho, who dies with honor by being decapitated and all is well. Next we see Cole, after ruining everyone's life is about to split town again but not before foreshadowing the brutal death of a fat guy with a hook hand and then he inexplicably winks at the camera, freeze frame, credits, done.
