tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4788538238831756834.post5951890341877287916..comments2024-03-27T21:47:42.148-04:00Comments on MONDO BIZARRO: Delayed Reviews: Shadow FuryAlec Pridgenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06857871218588846213noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4788538238831756834.post-17228597969187827042011-01-03T19:52:38.737-05:002011-01-03T19:52:38.737-05:00Yeah, this one wasn't a horrible film, but it ...Yeah, this one wasn't a horrible film, but it did have a lot of strange stuff in it! I cannot overstate how very strange that final transformation of the evil ninja is...he goes from kid, to really agile, acrobatic, and fast late teen, and then suddenly to really big, bulky, and only kind of mobile (though still pretty good at fight scenes) MMA guy. Didn't get that. Especially since Form 2 utterly kicked the good ninja's butt anyway...why did you even need to go to Form 3 and become...uh...slower?<br /><br />The whole Jack the Ripper thing bothers me for so many reasons, too. First, there's what the review mentioned...how exactly did you get the Ripper's DNA when no one knows who he was for sure? Did you just guess? Boy, sure hope you got it right, otherwise you'll look really silly.<br /><br />The other thing, though, is...why? Why put Jack the Ripper's DNA in there? I mean...sure, he's a famous serial killer, but there's been a lot of famous serial killers out there, sadly. Some of them, you might even actually be able to find. But is a serial killer really that great of a thing to include in your super-professional killer? I mean...I don't recall "takes orders very well" or "responds particularly well to the chain of command" being prerequisites for serial killing.<br /><br />Let's think about that, too...you might put the Ripper's DNA in for a few reasons. One, a killer instinct--I can't really argue with you there, though really I question how useful a killer instinct against mostly prostitutes would be in your professional killer. Two, talent for fighting...again, no real proof of that from the Ripper, since his primary targets weren't, you know, super fighters themselves. And three, never being caught...which you kind of have to figure owed at least partially to the lower forensic tech of the time and all (and of course is why getting the Ripper's DNA is <em>impossible</em> in the first place).<br /><br />All told, if I were building my own super-killer ninja guy, I'm pretty sure there's a lot of other things I would use before a serial killer of any kind, especially one whose DNA was impossible to get. (Clearly, I would use wolves.)<br /><br />Anyway, yeah, this movie was not one of the worst we've watched, but there's a lot of stuff to question in there. O_ORobert Mohrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06743186445657692368noreply@blogger.com