Saturday evening finally came and American Ninja was inserted into the top-loader.As I sat eating my Vesta curry, My life literally changed in the following 90 minutes, I learned more than any teacher could ever show me at school, Joe was literally a god! This guy could do anything.Beat anyone! Most of my friends had already seen it and we were all finally on the same Ninja wavelength! We practiced Joe's moves, disappeared in a "cloud of smoke" (England gets a lot of fog in Autumn/ Winter) behind the school canteen, jumped over the tyres in the playground as part of our "ninja training school". Incidentally, neither were the parents of pretty much all my friends, ahhh.The 80's, these young un's today don't know what they missed. My parents were never really into the whole "film ratings exist for a reason" thing. Eventually we finally turned up one afternoon and it was there.With no "Film on loan" tab on it! my life was finally complete and we took it home. The school playground was rampant with us wannabe assassins in duffel coats! In the aforementioned little village we only had one video shop, I spent weeks and weeks in a state of despair on Saturday afternoons, as we would go there only to see the dreaded "Film on loan" tab attached to the box.
Even in the sleepy little village where I lived in England, every single boy of my age dreamed of being a ninja. When American Ninja was released on VHS back in 1986 Ninja fever was rampant. The title of my review aside, I adore this film.
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