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The leader of the Red Ninja has been slaughtered by the Black Ninja,
led by Victor, and the legendary Black Ninja Warrior, and ugly
statue with special powers, has been stolen by Victor. Before he dies
though, the Red Ninja Master hands over leadership to his best student,
Charles, and tells him to retrieve the Black Ninja Warrior, and to
succeed in this, he if given the Golden Ninja Warrior, another ugly
statue with even more special powers. After much chasing and fighting of
course, the benign Red Ninja defeat the evil Black Ninja. Now this
doesn't make much of a film, so another, completely independent plot
(actually another film altogether chopped down to get the whole thing to
correct running time) is thrown into the mix: Here, Roger kills the
village leader Ronald to become the village leader in his stead. 20 years
later: Roger has hired master Eagle to train his man to bully the
villagers to pay whatever taxes he sees fit. Master Eagle is a benign man
at heart, but he also needs Roger's money to raise his daughter Sarah,
which is why he has accepted the crooked deal. Sarah is appalled by the
actions of Roger's men, and by the fact that her father actually trains
them, so she, a superior martial artist, fights on the side of the
villagers. Ah, and sarah is actually the daughter of Ronald, the man that
Roger has killed to achieve leadership. One day, a stranger, Jimmy, stops
by, who is also a superior martial artist and who is actually the son of
Ronald who wants revenge on Roger ... and after much to and fro, he gets
his revenge, too. There is also a subplot about special investigators who
try to bring Roger to court ...
Your typical
ninja-cut-and-paste movie from IFD Films & Arts: The framing
story about the ninjas is cheaply made, the fight scenes range from poorly
made to just about adequate, the actors are pretty much terrible, and some
of the ninjas actually wear headbands witht he word ninja printed
on them, to avoid confusion. The other film, for which the ninja story
acts as a framing device, has nothing whatsoever to do with the ninja plot
(even less than usual), it's a cheaply made action film, presumably from
Thailand, that features more less-than-special martial arts and a story
that's clichéd and simplistic and confusing all at once. This all
results in rather bad a movie of course, but if you ready to accept that,
you will at least giggle quite a few times.
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