Bluebell Alcock
Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
Patience Watson
One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.
Jenni Devyn
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
mmillhouse-1
I'd seen this film years ago, as a VHS rental, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I found it again, on Amazon Prime, and watched it yesterday. I enjoyed it as much as ever, despite the poor quality of some of the streamed images. It's a fantasy, and I think quite a good one, with an excellent cast and impressive production. I don't think the acting is over the top for a Japanese samurai epic, particularly one that includes mystical forces and entities. A particularly pleasant surprise for me, was to find out that Jotaro is played by a young Hiroyuki Sanada, one of most memorable characters in "The Last Samurai", and an fine journeyman actor.A couple of minor observations concerning an earlier review: The "acid" mentioned, was rather an epoxy-like spray, which hardened over the face of a victim, causing suffocation. The blind monk's "lasers" are actually needles.Just those two mentions alone would get me to watch a movie. I guess this one captured me in the much same way as "The Bride with White Hair".
James
There are some movies that try so hard to hit a certain target that they miss by a mile. This movie is one of them. It tries so hard to be a martial arts epic that it kills itself in the praxes.The basic plot of the film is that anyone who would marry Princess Ukyo would rule the world. She is already married to Lord Hanzo (ok, so why isn't he ruling the world?) A rival, Lord Danjo, enlists the help of an evil wizard named Kashin to help him win the hand of Ukyo. So Kashin sends his aides to kidnap the Princess' twin sister Kagaribi, whose tears are required to make a "love potion." That really pisses off the fiancée of Kagaribi, Jotaro, who vows bloody revenge. The rest of the story is too hard to explain.A movie needs more than a intricate plot to be an epic. Ninja Wars accomplishes nothing. It is too confusing to entertain, and too schizophrenic to have any meaning to it at all.
NobodobodoN
I couldn't decide whether to give this movie a 1 or a 10.Back in high school, some friends of mine and I used to watch this almost every week. A couple years ago, one of them e-mailed me out of the blue with a link to a website discussing it, complete with audio clips. I ran to ebay and ordered a used VHS right away. Now my wife is hooked on it, and we've started showing it to our friends.I can't post spoilers, because as many times as I've seen it, I still never know what to expect next. I think some of the scenes might be out of order.If you were amused by the flying and running up vertical surfaces in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, wait until you see this. And the baffling endings of Strangelove and 2001 scarcely hold a candle to the sudden tacked-on weirdness here.I know this film as "Ninja Wars", but maybe it's available under some of it's other titles. The Ninja Wars VHS version features crazy dubbing with poor translations and silly voices. Wouldn't be the same without it.
discostu004
This movie had it all. Big fat sluts with floppy jugs who seduce blind ninjas. It had a big fire and some guy with a lampshade on his head who shot acid from a garden hose poorly placed behind his head. It had ninjas being killed in trees and falling, only to reveal the big string holding them up. All in all, this movie should appeal to the crowd hoping to score with their japanese girlfriend.