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is trying to bring the Ninjas back to hip street and hey I'm not
complaining. I love them hood wearing, pajama abusing, shuriken
throwing mofos. The first attempt NINJA ASSASSIN had Ninja God Sho
Kusuki as the baddie and its heart in the right place but was dragged
down by unevenly shot action scenes and a so-so script. So I was
looking to the Scott Adkins starrer NINJA (bypassing theaters to land
on DVD come March 5th 2010) to take the flame home and solidify the
Ninja comeback. Did it happen? Not really but I still got some easy
spin kicks out of the damn thing.
I got to hand it to NINJA, talk about non stop motherf*cking action!
The bulk of the flick was basically a string of flashy, well
choreographed and brutal action scenes - hey I could think of worse
ways to spend an evening. As opposed to NINJA ASSASSIN, NINJA got its
fight bits right pretty much the whole way. None of that closely shot,
shaky cam crap - I saw EVERYTHING and loved every second of it! I'm
sure it helped matters that heir to the Van Damme throne SCOTT ADKINS
(i.e. Ben Affleck with muscles) was in the lead. No Hollywood tricks
needed with that dude, he's the real deal and every time one of his
gravity defying jump kicks would surface, my jaw would drop at the
sheer awesomeness that is Adkins talent. That boy's got some tight ass
moves! I heard somewhere that Adkins grew up idolizing Van Damme and
you know what it shows. He has the same flair when it comes to making
martial arts look eye-candy fly for the screen.
NINJA also benefited from having a stand out villain, Masazuka as
played by Tsuyoshi Ihara. I never had seen this guy before, but here,
he oozed of menace, intensity and sported decent fighting skills to
boot. I couldn't take my eyes off the lad - genius stroke of casting!
If the world is fair (and it isn't, especially in the film industry), I
expect big things for him on the action scene. Finally Isaac Florentine
is no stranger to Adkins or action movies in general; his filmmography
is all about that jive (Special Forces, Undisputed 2, The Shepherd...
with Van Damme and Adkins fighting each other - sweet). He has mucho
experience in the field and the result in terms of NINJA was a clipped
paced, stylishly shot adrenaline rush with a knack at doing action
right on every level: gripping gun fights, hand to hand bits, varied
chases, sword fun and even car hopping (yeah you heard up me... car
hopping). Give that dude a big budget already! He deserves it!
On the flip side, thank Buddha that NINJA's subplots didn't take up
much of its screen time. Although I dug the dojo/clan/revenge stuff
(classic 80's vibe) and the "protect the box angle", I really could
have done without the underdeveloped useless cop on the case subplot
and the silly, overacting, hooded assholes part of a secret society
spiel (shades of the baddies in Avenging Death but dressed like
clowns). Moreover, I was half/half on how the Ninjas were portrayed
here. As opposed to classic Ninjas (like the ones found in Revenge of
the Ninja or even Ninja Assassin) we got new school Ninjas. The bad guy
was basically wearing the pre Bat Batman get-up from Batman Begins. He
had a Kevlar chest armor, fancy night vision goggles, he used guns
(hey...that's cheating) and even had a cape that he used to glide off a
building (I almost hurled when that went down). And the less said about
Adkins eventual "off the Wal-Mart rack" Ninja outfit, the
better...TACKYYYYY! Lastly the flick suffered now and again due to its
low budget (some of the green screen was off), nothing I couldn't live
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