Thundering Ninja

This must be one of the worst movies i've seen, and I've seen quit a lot of movies and also quit a lot of really bad movies. Actually, you can call me a fan of bad movies, so you shouldn't be surprised to read that this is like some kind of masterpiece to me! I'm not going to talk about the story, because it's a real mess and doesn't make any sense at all. The actors are all terrible, but I certainly need to mention Stuart Smith as Sydney who is one of the worst in the job. Watching him is painfully funny. There are 3 scenes with him (only with him, you see him hardly interact with other actors, the reason for that is explained in "Trivia") which are trill "great": * Him running in the streets on "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" by Genesis, * the scene with the little bird and his sword (you have to see this to believe it, it's hilarious) * and his phone-conversation towards the end of the movie.

The dubbing and the sound-effects are lousy, the camera-work is shitty, well I can go on and on, but fans of "worst of the worst"-movies have by now understood that this is a must-have for their collection.

I should give it 0/10 for obvious reasons, but also a 10/10 for entertainment value, so my final figure is a 5/10. A must see!!

I can honestly say Thundering Ninja is a movie that I really tried to like. With an insane plot that has ninjas in pursuit of nuclear weapons to achieve global domination, that puts the ninja organisation against another ninja that is working for the CIA. That plot is amazing, but why this snoozefest spliced that together with scenes from a HK dramatic film with Jimmy Wang Yu is unknown and a really bad idea. Why they could not stay on point with the white ninjas fighting each other . This film is a mess and while it has its moments of brilliance, it is truly hard to get through from beginning to end. This could have been a contender for one of the best/worst movies ever and while there is some cool ridiculous ninja stuff going on, there is much more filler than killer. In summery Thundering Ninja is a mostly unwatchable crapfest that is inept and boring. A disappointment.

This movie is SO impressive, I have watched it two times today. With no plot line or appropriate ending, I have to say I have found the best lousy ninja movie ever made. To match the caliber of the movie, I will summarize it really badly. It's for some reason about ninjas and then there is an American agent for some reason that ends up being a red ninja for whatever reason, and apparently it's important to be a red ninja. Then he fights and they use stop frame to make the ninjas vanish really poorly. Then there are ninjas blowing up and then the red ninja does his kuji-in hand movements and explodes or something then the movie is over.

I bought it for 5 cents at a thrift store. I would have payed two, maybe even three times that much for a movie this good.

This cut and splice crap fest features a few brief ninja battles between painfully long scenes from a boring Wang Yu film from the seventies.

Jimmy Wang Yu is normally a pleasure to watch in such films as return of the one armed swordsman, the Chinese boxer series and master of the flying guillotine to name a few but this movie ( a modern day crime "thriller" ) is just a low budget, low concept snooze fest with boring, uninspired fight scenes. Wang yu was far from a kung fu expert in real life but with the right fight choreographers and actors working with him along with his acting and directing skills Wang Yu was a great action hero. Here Wang yu just looks like some guy who gets in brawls with other guys. In other words the kung fu blows.

But who cares about the filler. The footage you want to see is Stuart smith as some CIA guy or maybe just some jogger (they don't explain it too well) who is trying to destroy the camouflage ninja and his gang of black ninjas who are trying to get the documents for the K 19 nuclear missile for Buck, the leader of the Chinese mafia.

Unfortunately most of the footage with stuart smith is just there to move the plot along and there aren't many ninja fight scenes but a few of the scenes are stuart smith classics. There's this scene thats just a close up shot of smith jogging with weights in his hands and this expression on his face that's supposed to show how hard he's training I guess but he looks like he's experiencing excruciating pain. Another great scene with smith is him training in his red ninja costume and this bird flies by so he cuts its head off and then poses with this look of great accomplishment on his face.

The actual ninja fight scenes with smiths red ninja body double are actually really good. Nice sword play. Smith even does a couple action sequences himself that are a breath of fresh air after the boring wang yu fight scenes.

Anyway this is worth watching if you have a high tolerance or a love for totally inept film-making. If you rent this expecting a legitimate action movie I pity you. You'd be better off watching Snake eater 2.

Holy crap, this is the greatest thing ever. Ninjas, titties and bad overdubbing. This movie is so amazing. I'm watching it right now. Ninja action scenes are A++. The ninjas are everywhere and they're awesome and ruthless and they're either spying on someone or killing them or being killed by a more skilled ninja. Every ninja in this movie is 23 times better then Jackie Chan in every way.Everyone needs to see this movie. EVERYONE. I got it cheap from some bargain bin. I can't believe someone would sell something this fantastic for two dollars. Man, even the white guys have bad overdubbing. There are regular ninjas, there's a red ninja and a white ninja and a big boss ninja at the head of an evil organization. Evil organizations are the greatest. Especially when they're run by ninjas that laugh manically way too often. This movie wins. Wins everything.