Director Ryan Harrison
Starring Ryan Harrison, Tatiana Ortiz, Darrell Francis, Mitch Schlagel and Steven C Rose
Rated MA
Score 5/6

The Ninja VIP Super Club is doing a slow drag across the American Midwest, culminating in female sacrifice. When they kidnap a super hot babe that local scumbag Rex has his eyes on – it’s up to him to become a ninja to steal her back from them. Then she can have his babies!

Okay. Okay the last time I had such a major case of ‘What the fuck?’ after watching a movie, it was after my Mysterious Insanity marathons that featured movies produced by the Asylum.  Now, I’ll admit that I wasn’t sure what to expect going into this, I’m pretty sure that I might have broken my brain several times while watching this. So, I suppose the best advice that I can give for anybody who plans to watch this is to give your rational thoughts a two-hour coffee break and just sort of let the madness unfold in front of your eyes. Writer/Director/Actor Ryan Harrison has offered up something that is going to stay with me for a while and I can’t decide if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Ninja Badass is a ridiculous movie, in almost any other circumstance my review probably would have taken a combative tone towards Ninja Badass. Harrison has offered up a movie that is full of plot holes, poorly choreographed action sequences (that you would expect from kids playing Ninja at the park) that make episodes of power rangers look like they are on the level of the John Wick movies. The Tarantino level of blood and gore is the cherry on top of the ridiculousness sundae that is Ninja Badass and take the movie into its so bad, it’s kind of good territory. By the end of the movie, with everything that was offered up on screen I actually kind of enjoyed most of the performances in the movie most notably Tatiana Ortiz, Darrell Francis, Mitch Schlagel and Steven C Rose.

Still curtesy of Sydney Underground Film Festival