| The recipe is clear, the red Ninja outfits and headbands bought so in the name of profit and entertainment, IFD logs another patchwork worthy of crazy/genius/??? status. Having its ninja supremacy plot centered around a movie not even attempting to interact with Godfrey Ho's material more than a smidgen, the white dudes in costumes and emoting lead Stuart Smith are the stars of this show as the original martial arts movie about gangsters terrorizing a village slow down the proceedings even WITH the horrid English dub. But hearing character names such as Steve, Charles and Roger on top of the original film is wonderfully bizarre and the editing technique that uses the mantra "if it's a different scene, it fits" takes The Ultimate Ninja into some form of ultimate IFD incoherence. But I still stand by the fact that Joseph Lai and Ho were after delivering a good, incoherent experience because all this time since couldn't have possibly transformed these ludicrous white dudes ninja-scenes from tuned, serious art to the joy they are today. Laughing at commercial, action cinema isn't necessarily a side effect. A notion that rings true if you're doing your job today too. |
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