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Yet, Scott the Ninja isn’t the successor of the dojo. He might be doing katas sans a shirt, and even captured the gaze of the Beautiful Ninja Girl, but the chosen leader is a Japanese chap who is very much unlikeable. Scott also holds a deep-seated enmity towards him. Unfortunately for both of these characters, they aren’t the best in the acting department and thus, they are somewhat inching towards each other.
The surly guy, while competing against Scott, loses his cool during a match and tries to murder him. This act gets him in trouble and leads Scott to being expelled from the dojo. On the other hand, one can argue that there is some sort of convocation that doesn’t make sense; a group of guys in stringy hoods dressed in business suits on the other hand. Since Scott has already gotten expelled from the dojo, I will go on to say that it is admirable that Scott loves the movie regardless of it being slightly more absurd than Ninja Assassin. And I say this, a Russian oligarch that is about to get ninj’d at a press conference ordered by a guy dressed in funky robes. This is certainly more realistic.
When ‘Scott the ninja’ was rudely addressing Scott and demanding to be made the successor, Surly stormed back into the Dojo. After claiming to be the winner without a challenge, the Old Master decided it was time to send the sacred chest of ninja power to New York for safe keeping.
The old master sent the chest to NY because Scott the ninja made a haphazard entrance in New York. In comparison, Scott’s graceful exit might rank lower in drama, but Scott is undoubtedly graceful. The second half of this movie is arguably better than the first, for the opening having far less drama. Even with its low budget scope, this movie is skillfully made with jeans and normal light. Unfortunately, some of that annoying fountaining, high-pressure gory is still over the top. Infantilization is more anticipated in the second half of the movie, which is actually preferred.
What Surly Guy decides to do is muscle his way into the dojo fighting off all the apprentices in his way and face the Old Master whom he has a great deal of trouble purely defeating. While the fight ensues, somehow the kept secret regarding the sacrilegious chest is revealed. So it comes to gunmen versus ninjas because Surly calls in a favor from the robed people. They decide to invade the old aforementioned professor’s house, which is the holy grail of kind people. Strangely, all the robed men are identically clothed in blue and red hooded uniforms. Scotts gets the distinct chance as a Ninja to try and throw a blazing roundhouse kick while jumping over a sofa and flips off a car. But to my surprise, Scott the Ninja and the Beautiful Daughter are handed the title of ‘prime suspects’ for the murder of the kind Professor. How am I not only shocked, but these two characters committing the most underrated form of policing is not the worst I have seen to this point; it truly benumbs me.
Absolutely trashing a subway station comes next. Not only does he demolish it, but he easily takes down a few police officers alongside it. If there are any other characters, similar to Scott, that would attempt to savage a police station, this is the type of destruction I would expect them to cause. Surely Scott compares with at least the true villains, right? Like, if he doesn’t scale to adequate standards, it’s safe to say that beautiful daughter’s personification would have become mundane and monotonous.
In any case, Scott the Ninja reaches a compromise with the Inept Policeman, proceeds to pummel all the triangle hoodie fellows and their leader, and proposes to swap the sacred box of goodies for the Old Ninja’s Beautiful Daughter. In an unexpected turn of events, the arch villain finds out that Scott the Ninja indeed presents the box, but keeps all the items in it to himself. What makes highly amusing is how Scott wears the items during the final skirmish.
But you know I kinda really like this movie! This is actually a good movie! The best parts for me are the multi-person brawl sequences in which the camera shifts from one character to another. Typically, it has the Daughter Girl character, who is being viciously pummeled by Scott the Ninja who tends to fare much better in the fights. Something that could easily become annoyingly convoluted is how clear and simply the action is always presented. That is a very unique gift. There are also nice details such as a person camera diving behind the bookshelf and then popping out to punch a reloading gunman or one person getting pistol whipped and another jumping up from behind to rescue them. Such touches, as foreign as the idea of ‘realism’ is to this movie, are a welcomed change.
Although the Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu is respected, some very minor characters are compensated with a ‘moment of glory’ every now and then. The more exciting encounters were between the armed thugs and the unarmed expert fighters, which, though the outcome was what you would expect for the unarmed ones, there was plenty of good choreography and subtle bits of characterization. There’s a scene that is unexpected and very well put together: the hero takes it upon himself to ensure that the villain will remain mad and vengeful, and so, forth, rolls the credits and we all know there’s a second sequel he’s never coming back so the hero finally puts the villain down. It has no dialogue in it, just music and (, most of it’s wide shots, heh) Scott the Ninja’s very best intensity, it’s quite powerful.
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