Review – Ninja

If this had come out back in the 1970s, I would have considered it one of the best non-Bruce-Lee martial arts pictures I’d ever seen. However, three or four decades later this is strictly derivative stuff. The plot – American ninja battles former fellow student angry about being passed over for promotion to head of the ninja school – is all too familiar. The choreography is way better than old Chuck Norris productions, but it’s nowhere near as good as the fancy fights in most 21st century kung fu flicks. Though it has a few good stabbings, for the most part it’s just dull. See if desperate