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It starts out as your typical ninja-story: The Iga ninja fight the Koga
clan and their Oda ninja - and amid all that, a ball of fire hits earth.
Now that would not be too bad if that ball wasn't housing a handful of
aliens who scatter off into all directions to either kill humans or
inseminate them. Let's turn our focus on a small group of ninja -
Yamata, Jinnai, female ninja Rin, and cowardky Nezumi, who always carries
a bag of tricks around with him - on a reconnaissance mission, who soon
meet young Nishi, whose village has been eradicated by the aliens. Ourt
ninja promise him to help him get his revenge, and before you know it,
Jinnai is dragged off by an alien. Even though the aliens attack our ninja
time and again, they make it to alien HQ, where they find Jinnai and a
handful of other ninja mindcontrolled by the aliens' offspring, who
actually sit in their throats. This means our heroes now have to fight and
defeat them without killing them, to drag out the aliens and bring them
back to normal. Somehow they succeed, but Nezumi, who has been acting too
cowardly all movie long, has to let his life in favour of the others. In
the finale, Yamata goes against what appears to be the last alien on
earth, and the two have an extneded fight at the end of which Yamata blows
the alien to Kingdom Come using of all things one of Nezumi's
contraptions. Then our heroes - including a recovered Jinnai. For some
reason though, Nishi brings an alien offspring survivor with him, which he
of course hides from the others. To put aliens and ninja
against one another - now that's not exactly the most original idea, but
it sounds interesting nevertheless and could have made a great
over-the-top sci-fi-action farce. This though is where the film on hand
goes wrong: It doesn't take the farcial approach at all, instead plays it
straight and tries to tell an actual serious story based on nothing but
the feeble premise of its title, and instead of getting what could have
been the ultimate party movie, we are just left with an endless sequence
of fight scenes that range from the just routine to actually pretty
inventive. Well, the fight scenes are some fun at least. The alien on the
other hand looks a bit too much like the one from the Alien-series,
but with a weirdly shaped head (from some angles it looks like a duck),
and the whole thing isn't half as scary as it could/should have been. In
all, just about acceptable, but nowhere near the film it should have been.
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