Ninja III: The Domination
Die Herrschaft der Ninja

USA 1984
produced by
Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus for Cannon
directed by Sam Firstenberg
starring Sho Kosugi, Lucinda Dickey, Jordan Bennett, David Chung, Dale Ishimoto, James Hong, Bob Craig, Pamela Ness, Roy Padilla, Moe Mosley, John LaMotta, Ron Foster, Steven Lambert, Earl W.Smith, Carver Barnes, Karen Petty, Randy Mulkey, James Maher, Judy Starr, Cheryl Van Cleve, Suzanne Collins, Rosemary Ono, Janet Marie Heil, Charly Harroway, John Perryman, Chris Micelli, Lem Cook, Howard Dean, Tom Castranova, Jay Rasumny, Terence Goodman, Bill Helmintoller
written by James R.Silke, music by Udi Harpaz, Misha Segal

Cannon's Ninja-series

review by
Mike Haberfelner

So there's this evil evil Black Ninja (David Chung), who is slaughtering a scientist at a golf court and pretty much everyone who gets in his way as well, but ultimately he is gunned down by  the cops ... but even mortally wounded, the ninja manages to escape, and survive until he runs across Christie (Lucinda Dickey), a maintenance worker for the telephone company, whom he hands his sword and his soul before breathing his last ... but of course, Christie has no ideaj that she is now possessed by a ninja, and she lives on as if nothing had happened.

Eventually, Christie and cop Billy (Jordan Bennett) fall in love - but Billy is one of the cops who killed the ninja, and every now and again, Christie feels the urge to kill him. Also every now and again, Christie dons the Black Ninja outfit and goes out and kills the other cops responsible for the death of the Black Ninja, and she has no recollection of it once she returns home. It's not long before Billy finds out that his girlfriend is really behind all the killings, but he shields her, and eventually he makes the acquaintance of Yamada (Sho Kosugi), a white ninja master who tells her about the unique condition of his girlfriend and urges him to send Christie to him so he can transfer the Black Ninja's soul back into the Black Ninja's body and then kill him - and of course, transferring the soul goes A-ok, then Yamada and the Black Ninja, who immediately comes back from the dead, fight and Yamada of course defeats and kills his opponent ... and well, the world is saved ...

Three words: OH - MY - GOD !!!

What a piece of crap this is: I mean I can accept a bit of ninja magic, but transmigration of souls ? And let me point out, this is not a comedy, either. It's not even bad in a funny way, it's just bad.

Basically what you find in this film is a collection of sloppily staged action scenes, held together by an increasingly silly script with horror overtones, and spiced up with a few aerobic scenes complete with those terrible aerobic outfits (heck, those were the 1980's, there have to be some aerobic scenes, right ?). Add to this a bunch of untalented actors trying to find their way through some rock-bottom dialogue, and a terrible synthie-pop score (again, those were the 1980's), and the result is this horrific piece of junk.

You might want to avoid this one ...

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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