Ninja Apocalypse

The title sounds good but it's nothing but an failed attempt to imitate the cult classic The Warriors, it's almost like it was made by a couple of teens which tried to be cool by adding super powers to a few characters ala Mortal Kombat/Street Fighter 2. The actors can't even act properly, i lost my interest after 32 minutes. It's a complete waste of your time having to sit through this abysmal piece of crap.

This is an OK time-pass movie. Like if you don't have a AAA title to watch or just want to have a casual watch you can look at this. It kinda like Mortal Kombat meets Resident Evil meets Starwars Light Sabers meet Ninjas.

You have your good Raidens and Liu Kangs and your bad Reptiles and Tanyas with Shang Sung. Budget as you can tell is quite low but still decent stuff pulled off. Story wise well just your average survival stuff.

In short, its not a total waste of time and for a video game fan like myself this could prove to be a nice watch since you can tell from where the movie makers were inspired from to make different set pieces.

I guess I didn't get the memo, that a re-imagining of The Warriors was on the way. But I did watch it and unfortunately it doesn't hold up. There are other elements mixed in for and you have a certain dignity with Cary Tagawa, who's not only reliable, but also brings gravitas (even underground, yes!).

The effects are OK, the fights are also OK, for the budget that this movie had. I guess if this was made in the 80s (yes, like the Warriors, but even by that standard it lacks quite a bit), I might have liked the group mentality and the quirkiness of the movie. Characters are OK too, not much acting and not really any surprises (twist!) ...

This movie takes everything from ninja pop culture and video games and makes a movie out of it....and somehow zombie pop culture got thrown into it all as well.

I think the directors were just having one hell of a time trying their best with a tiny budget to make the scenes look cool and not giving a flying f@&k about how the acting was done or who the characters were.

The premise was ...ummmmmm...........just strange...I mean yes the earth was blown apart by nuclear war....but why has everyone turned to a feudal Japanese system for survival? Why does no one seem concerned about radiation? Why does no one have guns? Why do some people have super powers like Ryu or Ken on Street Fighter? Why the hell are there American white and black people being ninjas>

I hope this movie was made by film students because the acting and dialogue was what I would expect from a bunch of college bums.

I suppose we should all just take the movie for what it is.....a Saturday morning cereal crunching, brain numbing, action flick. I think the creators had vision ...........the vision of a 12 year old boy interpretation of what ninjas should be like - a cross between Mortal Kombat, Tekken and Tenchu Stealth Assassin (now there's a cool PlayStation game!!!)

Ninja Apocalypse (2014)was a good attempt that I think succeed at being good.

The movie sure is small budget and the script is not flushed out nor the characters, but as a small budget film it had cool moments that are a gamers dream and in fact what little boys think about. Cool moves that have the glow to them(Last Dragon Reference)and glowing swords that combined with karate and kung Fu, looks near spectacular.

I give it an 8.5 out of 10, but keep in mind the budget and know it is NOT meant to be a big budget blockbuster and you will enjoy it thoroughly.