This otherwise routine low-budget entry in the glut of 80s ninja movies is really only notable for being Swedish, and for being apparently the most commercially successful Swedish export feature up to that time--which is, frankly a little hard to believe. (More successful than "I Am Curious Yellow," for starters?) The cheese factor is immediately high with lots of cheap action--you know, the kind where somebody points a toy gun and a bunch of extras wave their arms around pretending to be "shot."
The ninjas aren't very present in this tale of West/USSR espionage (involving a Swedish scientist kidnapped by the Russians), beyond the fact that a lot of security dudes are frequently dressed in vaguely "ninja-like" head-to-foot jumpsuits obscuring their identities, presumably so the same few extras could be used over and over again despite being "killed."
The scientist's-daughter heroine is apparently meant to be a cross between Diane Lane in "Streets of Fire" and whatshername in "Flashdance," as a sort of New Wave sexpot. (She does actually sing a song near the beginning, before being kidnapped like her father.) The presumably dubbed ESL dialogue is humorously just a little "off" at all times, but this movie is really too small and pedestrian in ideas to be unintentional-comedy gold. However, it's lively enough in its silly way--every five minutes another ten extras flail around being "shot"--to be fun if forgettable.
The ninjas aren't very present in this tale of West/USSR espionage (involving a Swedish scientist kidnapped by the Russians), beyond the fact that a lot of security dudes are frequently dressed in vaguely "ninja-like" head-to-foot jumpsuits obscuring their identities, presumably so the same few extras could be used over and over again despite being "killed."
The scientist's-daughter heroine is apparently meant to be a cross between Diane Lane in "Streets of Fire" and whatshername in "Flashdance," as a sort of New Wave sexpot. (She does actually sing a song near the beginning, before being kidnapped like her father.) The presumably dubbed ESL dialogue is humorously just a little "off" at all times, but this movie is really too small and pedestrian in ideas to be unintentional-comedy gold. However, it's lively enough in its silly way--every five minutes another ten extras flail around being "shot"--to be fun if forgettable.