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Saturday 16 February 2013

Ninja in the Dragon's Den (1982)

Corey Yuen’s solo directorial début is classic stuff, but it has some odd comedy throughout, both intentional (which is awful) and unintentional (which is embarrassingly funny). The comedy functions mostly as a brief lull between the many action scenes, but it'll have some people reaching for the stop button. If you can endure it you're rewarded with some inventive martial arts action scenes that are clear influences on the direction the genre took in the years that followed.

3 asses on fire out of 5

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