All that aside, El Ninja Mexicano sounds like the rare kind of movie that might be so bad that it's actually good. This is something that's not accomplished often, and only by the likes of MegaForce. These films often don't even need to be MST3Ked to be hillarious; they manage to be highly amusing in their own right. And how could it not be so with a movie about Mexican ninjas? As we should all know, Hong-Kong martial-arts movies are, for the most part, awesome. But that's because they know what they're doing. By all accounts, the Mexican martial-artists are more worried about avoiding injuring each other than actually putting on a good show. After all, with their talent, they can't afford to be injured in such a fight scene. It would ruin the Mexican film industry. Perhaps even more so than the release of this movie, though that's hard to imagine. I also thinks it's highly amusing, considering the title, that the Mexican Ninja plays such a small part in the movie. I guess the producers were trying to build up the suspense around him, make him into some sort of dorky superhero whose secret identity had to remain intact until the end of the movie. And it doesn't even sound like this guy is much of a hero at all. The review seems to imply that he's trying to protect an industrialist who has invented a new drug more powerful than cocaine. This doesn't really sound like a good thing. True, it might be dangerous if it falls into the wrong hands, but it sounds to me like it might be there already. Could El Ninja Mexicano actually be part of a drug-dealing ring? Could he have actually sampled this new product himself? At least that would explain his poor choice of costume when disguised as the Mexican Ninja.
Finally, I have to comment on the poster advertising this movie. It shows several people who are clearly supposed to be ninjas. But at a casual glance, several of them look more like mummies or possibly even zombies. I can only assume that the movie would have been much more interesting if they'd actually included these undead ninjas. It certainly would have been a great deal more fun. But that's enough commentary from me on this film that I've never seen. If you want a more detailed analysis, you should visit the review link posted above. Last of all, I would like to thank the person who sent me the info on El Ninja Mexicano. Her ability to locate information on bad movies that few people have heard of is more valuable than you might think. And certainly most appreciated when I'm trying to come up with new quotes.
The title says almost all you need to know about this quote, and the movie it comes from. But I will elaborate anyway, in the hopes of making this story almost as bad as the movie that inspired it. Not that I've actually seen El Ninja Mexicano, but that won't stop me from arbitrarily judging it based on its title and an online review that I read. This is also the site where I found the picture that goes with the quote. So credit should clearly go to them both for that and for having the courage to actually watch this movie in order to review it. Though the Michelin people have demonstrated time again that it is not necessary to actually view something before passing judgement. As such, I imagine they would probably give El Ninja Mexicano three stars, since it appears to be both long and boring, much like their guidebooks. And Upper Canada Village, for that matter, which also undeservedly received three stars in their guide.
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