Jmovie: Alien vs Ninja(2010)

Rating: 4/6


When I first watched the trailer of this one, I thought for sure it was a wannabe-scary-action-movie with a low budget and bad effects.
Therefore I was really surprised by its epicness!


As the title may suggest, the movie is about a bunch of ninjas fighting an alien invasion.
For me at least, that sounds pretty awesome.

Here's the trailer:

Ok, this trailer was a bit better than the one I watched. It looks less cheezy.
But my expectations weren't that high, so that may have affected my judgement a bit, because I love this movie!

It manages to be rediculous and cool at the same time.

You have bodyparts, guts, goo and blood flying everywhere.
You have total idiots among the characters.
You have.. lots of other wacky stuff I won't tell to spoil the surprise.
And you have awesome ninja moves, which can make just about anything cool.

As expected, swords and ninja-stars are of course also present, and those parts are done quite well to my unprofessional opinion.

I don't know what more there is to say.
So to mention some bad things:

Though I like just about everything untill and after, I really don't like the end of the final battle or whatever. It goes from being funny-rediculous to just bad-rediculous, and it's not that entertaining.

Also, some effects are maybe not top class.
You can sometimes see the alien being a man in a suit, and it kind of looks like a dinosaur, but they give it lots of extra features, so it's ok I guess.
I find the rest of the bad effects tolerable, and they were expected, so it's not so bad.
It could've been a lot worse.

So even though it has these few faults, I really liked the movie.
Just one part and a few bad effects are certainly not enough to ruin that impression.

Fake tattoo. How badass.

Whether or not you'll like it as well all depends on what you expect.
If you want a serious sci-fi alien movie of the American kind, this may not be the movie for you.
But laugh at the foolish stuff and do some "eeew" and "wow", and you surely will enjoy the movie as much as I did XD


You can get it here, by logging in here:
http://myasiancinema.com/j-movie-alien-vs-ninja-2010/

Or I think you can watch it streamed on youtube:

If you don't mind... nonenglish subtitles.