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His wife loves the ranch, and doesn't want to sell, and The Stash thinks if his friend wants his ranch, that no strongman will take it from him, so he takes out wave upon wave of local toughs. Beyond the fact the friend looks like a smaller James Caan in The Godfather, he's also having trouble with a local strongman that wants him to sell his huge ranch.
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It really was the American Ninjas and the ninja films later in this series that started the boom, but that doesn't mean this is any less worthy of a review.Įnter the Ninja is a Golan-Globus film with Franco Nero (from this point on, The Stash) as a Westerner who becomes a ninja, and visits his friend in the Philippines. He has a Master’s degree in playwriting and a Bachelor’s degree in creative writing from Western Michigan University, where he currently teaches Thought and Writing.If you want to look for the genesis of the ninja in American pop culture in the 80s, this is a great place to start, even though this film itself is a little light on the Japanese assassin. Joe Sanders is a playwright and college instructor in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Special features include only a theatrical trailer for the movie. It’s everything you’ve come to love about 80s action movies, assuming you’ve at some point come to love 80s action movies, and once you decide to view the film’s many many red herrings and misdirects as a metaphor for a Ninja’s ability to deceive and confuse his enemy, then you might make it through this with some small amount of enjoyment. Like Beverly Hills Ninja except that this film isn’t trying to be funny. Something about him being in a war and after the war is done going to “look for the next battle.” It’s not the most organic character moment because we’re lead to believe that the violence and killing of the war filled him with guilt, but then he decides to study to become a much more dangerous and powerful assassin.
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It’s vaguely established why Cole decides to study Ninjutsu.
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There is absolutely no chemistry between Franco Nero and Susan George as if they could feel the bored eyes of future audience members watching them as they filmed. Apparently they needed to put in a love interest for Cole, and only knew one woman who could be in there movie, so they have to go out of their way to establish that Frank is a huge jerk and not worthy of his wife giving her permission to cheat on him and not lose the audience’s approval. Probably the most ridiculous one is the forced romance between Cole and Frank’s wife, Mary-Ann (Susan George).
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Thus the movie goes predictably on until the final showdown between Cole and Venarius.Ĭonvenient plot points drag the film down a lot. Venarius sends wave after wave of hardened criminals to scare Frank off his land, but each thug is beaten down by Cole’s Ninja skills. Frank is being terrorized by a powerful and eccentric oil tycoon named Charles Venarius (Christopher George), who wants to run Frank off his land and drill for oil. After his training, he goes to visit his friend, Frank (Alex Courtney), presumably in Mexico somewhere but it’s never really established.
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The story is about Cole (Franco Nero), a middle-aged white man who has studied to become a Ninja. Enter the Ninja doesn’t even come close to the title of worst movie ever made, and that’s saying something about the kinds of garbage I’m able to sit through. And in my quest to find the worst movies ever made, I’ve found some very strong contenders. So, your enjoyment of the movie really depends on how much you enjoy terrible movies. Chances are that Enter the Ninja is exactly what you’re expecting it to be.