Icarus Tannhäuser Wow. I loved martial arts movies as a kid. I studied Tae Kwon Do and I lived and breathed everything remotely pertaining to Asian fighting arts. I wanted to see this movie way back in the day but we didn't have a VCR and it didn't show in local theaters. The same goes for the Shô Kosugi's next movie, "Revenge of the Ninja." I still haven't seen it. The best I could do was see "Ninja III The Domination (which I'm now afraid to revisit).So anyway, "Enter" was a terrible movie. The movie opens up with a white ninja being chased by red ninjas in a jungle setting. Seriously? White is for snow, red is for....wtf is red for? Anyway, unbelievable. Then when the masks are off, the white ninja is a white guy. No big deal but his body is completely unsuited for martial arts, at least ninjutsu. When you think of ninjas, you think of thin acrobatic men. Franco Nero, the star, is a tallish brutish wrestler-esque dude with a 70s porn mustache. I just have no words. I have nowhere to start because there was so much wrong with this movie from the star to the plot to the lunacy of the movie logic. Hell, in the final 30 minutes, Nero, again in his white ninja outfit in tropical Manila with not a snowbank in 1000 miles, enters the building of the bad guy with two swords, a blowgun, a bow, arrows, sais, shruiken.....it's completely unbelievable. At some point he loses both his swords and yet, he still has another sword. Obviously he has mastered sphincter concealment. I admit that this review sucks because there is just so much not to like I don't know how to articulate it. I hated this movie after the first 10 minutes but I decided to gut it out until the end and now I regret it. If you want to live forever, this movie will make time feel like it is standing still.

jcmcgee The reason that you've heard the word "ninja" is because of this movie.It's a mid 80's chop sockey film that inspired a huge (sub) cultural movement.Ninjas are to martial arts movies what Zombies are to horror movies...and Ninjas were introduced to us in the west via this movie.Jeez Louise with the negative reviews! I guess you had to be there at the time...but this movie caused a revolution...kids all over the world went from wanting to be Bruce Lee to wanting to be a Ninjas as soon as they saw this.Also, it wasn't really part of a trilogy...the others were just cash ins or vehicles for Sho Kushogi, they bore nothing to do with this movie other than the word "Ninja" in the title.

FlashCallahan After just completing his training at a ninja school, Django, now an army vet travels to the Phillippines and finds himself battling a land grabber who wants his war-buddy's property. He must also fight his rival, who is jealous of his moustache and the fact that he is the only Ninja who gets to wear white. But does Kosugi not understand that white gets dirty quickly, and Django will spend forever and a day washing?To say anything other than this is cheese would be lying. It is cheese of the highest order, but for heavens sake, its so much fun while it lasts.Nero, I know only from Django and as the random General in Die Hard 2. And while his voice maybe dubbed, he really as no screen presence in this, and looks highly embarrassed, which adds to the charm of the film.Every Ninja movie begins with a fight with people wearing various colours of pyjama, and there is always one who takes it a little too far and ruins the whole proceedings. Nero qualifies as a Ninja by doing funny stuff with his hands, and goes to meet his friend who looks like a cut price James Caan, who is a drunk and lives with Susan George.Their land is threatened by a comedy villain and his badly dressed henchman, all the while being supported by some chubby British guy who talks like Jarvis from Iron Man.It's all silly revenge stuff, Neros face is conveniently covered whenever there is a big fight, but the last twenty minutes is hilarious, with Nero carrying more weapons than humanly possible.Not to be taken seriously by any means, but if you are a fan of eighties action, this will do nicely.

Tango and Cash Any movie with the same cliché plot as "Ernest Goes to Camp" is gonna be a real stinker - particularly if it tries to be serious. Evil corporation tries to bully virtuous protagonist into selling land. Snooze.The characters are paper thin. There is no backstory to any of them - aside from the two main guys being former war buddies. Where did the poofy-haired character meet his British/Australian wife? How did they fall in love? Where did they meet? And most troublesome - how does a former soldier have the money to live in a mansion with beautifully landscaped gardens? Yikes.What war or mission in Africa did the ONE flashback come from? This was supposed to show the bond the two male characters had, but all it did was confuse me even more. What part of Africa (a huge continent)? What war? How did the war turn out? What did they end up doing after the war? Why is he living in the Phillipines? Why is the British/Australian wife so attached to the land? As she said herself, there is nothing but crime, gangsters, and poverty in their rural "town." Why would she want to stay, particularly since they're offering her and her husband millions of dollars for their house? Everything in this movie was confusing. Could have been written and directed and acted by college freshmen. 3/10.