"The Ninja Strikes Back" is tremendously entertaining, delivering sleazy and action-packed incidents from start to finish. A fight on the steps of Rome, a freeze-frame decapitation, a balding businessman being overpowered by drug addled nymphomaniacs, and a topless woman sunning herself on a beach only to then be shot at by a sniper are buy some of the many highlights. The kidnapping of an ambassador's daughter by two thugs, one of whom s dressed in drag, is the main raison d'etre for the globe-trotting exploits of Bruce Le in an endless succession of fight scenes and travelogue shots of Rome, Hong Kong, and Paris, where Bruce takes a detour to the fleshpots of Pigalle and ends up exchanging blows on the set of a French porn film. The film's finale provides a recreation of the ending of "Way Of The Dragon" and sees Bruce summoned to the Coliseum in Rome and challenged to a battle to the death by someone identified on the video box as "Chick Norris". Cartoon inserts of breaking bones and a pulsating heart symbolize Chick taking lethal blows from a victorious Bruce.
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