Although it doesn't have as much action, as say for Pray For Death, where there's a similar premise, this one comes off a not a bad rate movie, where Sho is battling a more deadlier enemy of his own stature. The cover of this movie is fantastic, all the way down to it's impactful title'd font, with those deadly little spikes, that shoot out different colored smoke. An impressive fountain scene, involving them, I liked. Again, we're not asking for Oscar calibre actors, but we just surrender to the thrilling action, punctuated between not so happening but involving moments, one chase scene, that might leave your knees a bit raw and grazed. Like I said earlier, there are a few familiarities here that are akin to Pray For Death, even in it's opening. Even that flashback in PFD is similar to a scene here. Check out the start of the other I've mentioned, and you'll know what I mean. Sho and son, Kane, have come to America for a better life, but there's a deadly enemy stalking Sho and son, where unbeknown to Sho, used as a patsy, the inside of his dolls is housing cocaine. ROTN is a real kind of 80's film making I liked. It's a real quality movie of a different and more spectacular action. The couple killed screwing in a hot tub, and can't be pulled apart give a new meaning to the term, inseparable. Pity too, though like in Ninja 3, that incidentally came out only months later, as a double feature with Swordkill, we have to put up with that awful music. A small price to pay for exciting action like this. Just don't expect constant action, as for some Ninja fans, this could prove a bit of a down sight. The climax is engagingly intense. Good stuff.
Review of Revenge of the Ninja
