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A ninja (Nihat Igit) is killing people in Germany, seemingly without
rhyme or reason - and to track him down, German police figure they have to
hire Turkish upsercop Murat (Cüneyt Arkin), who's supposed to be the only
one able to take a ninja down, as he has served in the Korean War and has
there learned "the way of the ninja" - plus, apparently only
Turks have the determination to take down ninjas (don't ask). Once in
Germany, Murat is quick to come up with this gem of wisdom: A ninja needs
two things, a dojo, and woment to torture. On his way to the best dojo in
the country, Arkin gets into a wild car chase, and arrives at the place
just too late to save a random karateka to be killed by the ninja, who
gets away of course. The same happens at a whorehouse later on. Murat
and his partners follow more leads, but more and more lead to a German
gangster named Hans instead of the ninja. Hans seems to be quite desperate
to get the ninja off his back though, so he joins forces with the police
and helps Murat set up a showdown with the ninja. However, back in Turkey,
Murat's girlfriend (Füsun Ucar) is killed, and the trail leads to Hans.
So when Murat, carrying a special sword, walks into the finale, he knows
he has been set up by Hans and enters what's supposed to be a death trap -
but for some reason the ninja takes out all of Hans' men and ultimately
Hans himself, and then he and Murat fight ... well, and Murat wins,
because not even a ninja can beat a Turkish cop!!! Son
Savasci is typical 1980s macho action cinema, where the guys are tough
and chick magnets, the girls are sexy and little else, the line between
good and evil is clearly drawn, and the emphasis is always on action over
anything else ... and in that way, Son Savasci might even be more
honest than most action movies, as the plot is only paper thin, there are
no big diversions from the action, like giving the villains and heroes
actual motives, or building up character arks. Essentially, the movie
stumbles from one action scene into the next (including quite a few car
chases reportedly lifted from the American movie Cannonball
from 1976), with the fight scenes a bit on the crude side, which adds
realism to some moments, but overall makes them seem drawn out. All that
said, the film is actually good fun. Not a great movie, rather grade B
action trash, but fast moving enough to be engaging still, and with quite
a few "so bad it's good"-instants on top of it that trash movie
afficionados like myself will at least enjoy some of this.
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