Ninjas vs. Vampires (2010)

This "movie" was uncomfortable at best. The premise would allow for a fantastic thrill ride of adventure. Who doesn't like ninjas? At first I thought that this could have been a guilty pleasure or at least an over sexualized 90 minute romp with ninjas. This is the movie equivalent of your creepy uncle making a sexual remark about his underage daughter at a family reunion.From the casting to costumes to weird gimmicks like enchanted windows, this was a total flop.The fight scenes alone express how stupid the director thinks the viewers are.

If you're looking for a film that actually lives up to the promised glory of the title, please go elsewhere. But if you're looking for an undercover fan film presumably set in Joss Whedon's Buffyverse but with a tenth of the needed resources and 1/100th of Whedon's talent, you're in luck. The filmmakers have their heart in the right place but heart isn't enough, either for an independent film or even a fan film, because this has got to have some of the dodgiest production value this side of a Chris Seaver joint. At least on a technical level, earnestness isn't going to make the grade when you've got stuff like STAR WARS: REVELATIONS or STAR TREK PHASE 2 which are professionally mounted if nothing else. If all you've got is a copy of Adobe Premiere along with an off-the-shelf consumer camera,and a work light or two from Home Depot, it's not going to cut it, knowhutImsayin? Now poor production value wouldn't necessarily be a deal breaker, but there is no story and no craft to elevate this sorry work. It's just 90m of winking at the audience substituting for acting, half-as**ed, spastickly staged fights masquerading as action, and nerd references, stolen one-liners, and warmed over jokes pretending to be a script. If you want to see a undercover fan film that's done with actual panache and skill, try RECON 2022: THE MEZZO INCIDENT (please note I'm not saying its good, because dear God, it's not. It's just that they tried.) The only thing that is admirable about NINJAS VS VAMPIRES is the marketing because, let's face it—it's a great title and they put together some great box art; it's slick, professional and puts you in the mood for some quality vampire-fu action--- and you will get that providedyou go watch Buffy, Angel, BLADE, any of the UNDERWORLD movies, or BLOODRAYNE even because you're sure as hell not going to get it from NINJAS VS VAMPIRES.

I've lost count of how many outright shoddy vampire movies I've seen, many of them being C grade. But I must say this movie is quite better than most of them. It's, I feel, in the borderline between average and crappy! Why? Because it's surprisingly not boring and is comical too.Credit for my feel good opinion also goes to the okay effects, nice fight action sequences and also decent show by all the actors.Rather not go to the story as it's understood such flicks usually have plots that defy all laws of logic. Simply put, we've a group of ninjas who pledge to rid the earth off vampires. And the good wins over the evil in the end. Silly yet simple! I liked watching Jay Saunders as Aaron. He's funny, emotes nicely and fights really well too. Maybe the only highlight of the movie is in the initial scenes where Aaron makes a frustrating yet hilarious attempt to get his love Alex to remember what happened after she loses her short-term memory in a vampire attack.What to talk about the cons here? Although the fights are nice, the strategies the vampires or the ninjas come up with to destroy each other seem dumb or dumber! Verdict: If all you really want is to watch skimpy clad duh vampires biting necks & equally duh ninjas, nothing like this :-)

Ninjas battle Vampires for the fate of the world...Let me be completely honest... this film arrived in my mailbox for review, and I shuddered in fear. Low budget, very cheesy premise... I figured there was no way this could possibly be good.On the one hand, I was not all wrong. The low budget does hinder them a bit, making it appear like a group of friends with a camcorder running around in the neighborhood. Which is probably exactly what it is. Also, the costumes are really, really bad -- one in particular is awful (you judge for yourself).But, the general concept comes off much less stupid when you see it in action, and had a bigger company tackled this and given it a better name, it may have a following. Where the film really excels is in the writing of jokes. They obviously knew they could not take themselves too seriously, so there is a joke every minute, often at the film's expense. One character is jokingly called "Destro" and "Doctor Doom" to heckle his cheesy mask.If you do not know pop culture references, you may hate this. The story is good, but not great, and the acting is nothing special. Again, it is the jokes that sell, but if you do not know the movies and comics they reference, it may be over your head. Plenty of X-Men banter, and more than a few "Twilight" slams.I cannot recommend this film to just anyone. The pampered viewer who needs the latest special effect and big names will hate this and turn it off after 5 minutes. Fans of the lower budget may find it to their liking. It is an ideal drinking film. Oh, and the rocking soundtrack deserves praise... that may have been the deciding factor between this film failing or succeeding. It succeeds, barely.