User Reviews

The movie claims to be about ninjas. The title is Ninja Dragon. But the ninja part feels thrown in. The script is terrible. For half the film I couldn't understand much of what was going on.

It opens up to a card game with horribly dubbed over lines and they all lose to this one guy. They betray him or something and he plans to kill them because he's a ninja. But he's like 70 years old. So he goes out in this ninja outfit to kill them one by one.

Only that takes up like thirty minutes at the most. And is split up between like an hour of mob-based story that barely ties into this. If it ties in more than I realize then it's because the terrible dialog that the people speak! It's cheesy, the lines are badly dubbed, none of the characters are interesting.

Some big gangster dies apparently and now his daughter is taking over the business. She's protected by this guy called Dragon and they pretty much take down the other gang. Along the way her brother betrays her and she casts him out, the rival gang is for some reason connected to one of the guys the ninja is killing. And in the end she decides to do the cliché thing and marry Dragon. But none of this is truly interesting. It took me over twenty-four hours to finish this movie because I got so bored to move on! Fans of bad movies? Watch this. It's just plain terrible. And that's no understatement.

More cut and splice ninja mayhem here, as served up by our good old friend Godfrey Ho! In this instance what we have are a number of ninja scenes edited (seemingly randomly) into a rather sombre Asian gangster flick.

Sadly, as is very often the case with the 'Hong Kong Produced Cut And Splice Ninja Movie' sub genre, the actual film into which the new ninja related segments have been edited, is in fact boring enough to render even the most hardened movie viewer into a debilitated stupor! You may well find the fast forward button on your remote control to be of great assistance during these virtually interminable scenes in the movies running time!

However, aside from the tedium that makes up the main bulk of the film, what we are left with i.e the newly filmed footage, it has to be said, is absolutely priceless!!!

Things get off to a cracking start when we witness a group of men sitting down to a high stakes card game.

The voice over work here is utterly hilarious! It really seems that the voice over 'artists' themselves must have been running some high stakes bets of their own - on who could come up with the stupidest voice possible!!!

Everyone at the table in the scene (with the exception of Richard Harrison's character) has been gifted with what must surely rank as some of the most hilarious efforts of dubbing I have ever heard in my life (the other contender for the dubious accolade of best (worst) overdub being the voice over for Dave Wheeler's character in the similarly side splitting Ninja Commandments)

Of particular note (and mirth!) is the hugely exaggerated cockney accent applied to the main villain, played here by Bruce Stallion (real name Paulo Tocha)

And it's not just the voice work that will have you in hysterics either, the actual script itself is so dreadful that you just can't help but to laugh out loud!

For fans of highly demented/high camp value ninja movies, you can't really go wrong here - it's something of a Z-movie classic!

A number of months ago a friend of mine purchased 4 ninja titled films for about a dollar American each.Among them was this classic piece of.....filmaking genius.

----------------WARNING THAR BE SPOILERS AHEAD------------------- The film is split into two parts,half ninja,half gangster film.the two plots are held together by some pretty poor cut and paste techniques with only one instance where the two leads talk face to face,sort of.Rest of the time is spent using the same footage of the same phone call,redubbed a couple of times.

The plot revolves around a gang feud (where both gangs dress like the blues brothers,or in one scene lumberjacks) and a group of international rich business crime lord kinda guys who are also ninjas.

the rest of the plot involves one on one ninja battles and lots of shootouts.the only way to sum up this movie is to put in a couple of quotes.

In an hilarious Australian Accent"get him,or I'l get you!"

"you must use the Chinese against the Chinese,Your playing the game of death!"

"He cant win,i have two aces in my hand.But what if he pulls out three kings?"

In conclusion the film is a triumph of how good a bad film can be.The greatest element of the story though comes half way through,when the funeral director appears.This is one of the funniest scenes of all time,and I'm counting every film ever made.The guy has the lo0udest voice ever and shouts out,HATS OFF!,KNEEL DOWN!,FIRST BOW!,SECOND BOW!,THIRD BOW!.He also gets a line at the end of the film which consists of one word which cannot be understand,it goes something like blring

All in all a classic movie,up there with plan 9 from outer space and all the other godfrey ho movies