Fight scenes are delivered with the utmost seriousness, until out of nowhere the filmmakers decided to throw in a few cartoon sound effects immediately changing the tone of the scene without reason or purpose.
At minute fifty we learn that a character can’t perform in the bedroom for his wife anymore - this offers nothing at all to the plot or the soon-to-be-dead character in any way other than it sounds like something a better movie would have. It’s so inept and chaotic that you can’t help but smile when it tries earnestly to develop stories and characters that are well beyond its scope. Golan and Globus had succeeded in spite of themselves and this was the blueprint for their films for the next ten years as The Cannon Group experienced varying degrees of success with their productions before eventually shutting down for good.Įnter The Ninja is a glorious mess of a movie. So now not only does your star not know anything about martial arts and can’t perform his own fight scenes, he won’t even be lending his voice to the project he is no more than a body that fills up the frame.ĭespite all these shortcomings and what seemed like a guaranteed recipe for disaster the movie became a huge success - it spawned two sequels and countless imitations with the newfound popularity for Ninjas. Instead of changing the script, they simply decided to dub all of Nero’s lines during post-production - eliminating one of the main reasons for casting him in the first place - and replace him in the fight scenes with the original writer and star of the film. The only problems with casting Nero? The character of Cole was supposed to be from Texas and a master in martial arts, but Franco Nero had an extremely thick Italian accent and knew nothing about Ninjas or martial arts. His first order of business was to re-cast the starring role of Cole with someone more recognizable.įranco Nero was hastily cast by Golan and Globus for his international appeal and recognizable face.
When Cannon’s most bankable star (Charles Bronson) refused to let Menahem Golan direct Death Wish 2, Golan kicked the director off this project and decided to make it himself. Golan and Globus were innovators in shlock and Enter The Ninja might be one of their most accomplished works.
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