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A terrorist in Manilla named "Nomad" is extorting the Government for $45 million with the threat of unleashing a nerve gas on the population. The World Organization of Peace (yes, they have a sign that says W.O.P.) feels they can't send in a regular agent so they decide to use an innocent death row prisoner (Fong) about to be put to death. After an elaborate faked execution escape in San Francisco, Fong meets with the W.O.P. leaders and is sent to Manilla to stop this group. Before he leaves, the top guy says to him, "Have fun and stay sober." What?

That line about sums up this movie. For the first 45 minutes, this plays like two separate films cut together. But after that the characters from the two plot lines start coming together and you just realize it is really bad directing. Leo Fong, for whatever reason, is dubbed with a Southern accent. In the book Gods in Polyester, Fong claims this film was made for $50,000, which is relatively impressive I guess. Even more impressive is they made an action movie in Manilla without Cirio Santiago involved (and he claims they made a cool $3.5 million off it). The tape I have make a special point to insert a card saying "Special appearance by Cameron Mitchell" in the opening credits but he doesn't even show up in the short 80 minute running time. Can I coin the term "Camsploitation"?

What was that? I've seen a lot of bad movies in my time, but Enforcer from Death Row ranks right up there with the absolute worst. I wasn't expecting the second coming of Citizen Kane or anything, but come on - this thing is barely watchable.

I would have probably never rented Enforcer from Death Row but for two things. First, the plot description I read on the Netflix website intrigued me. "T.L. Young (Leo Fong) sits imprisoned on death row, awaiting his date with the electric chair. But he's given a second chance when he's rescued by members of an international peacekeeping organization. In exchange for his life, however, Young is sent on a risky mission to stop a deadly group of criminals. This movie is jam-packed with action scenes featuring lethal ninjas, brutal tortures and thrilling car chases." Sounds kinda cool. Unfortunately, the people responsible for this abomination had no concept of how to make a movie. I could cite any number of atrocious problems with Enforcer from Death Row (like the bad acting or the weak special effects or the 75-watt bulb used to light the sets or the three Bunsen burners and test tube racks that made up the bacterial weapons lab or the laughable dubbing choices or the "thrilling" low-speed helicopter rescue or . . .), but I'll focus on the complete lack of continuity found in the movie. The most offensive example is a scene where a guy jumps off the roof of a building and miraculously lands in the ocean. And I don't mean right at the water's edge - he landed way out in at least 4 or more feet of water. How'd he do that? Moments later, he's on a road stopping a passing car. The overhead shot shows the car, the road, and some vividly green farmland. What happened to the ocean? What happened to the building? Was there something in the movie about teleportation I missed? It's just jaw-dropping ridiculous.

The second reason I took a chance on Enforcer from Death Row was Cameron Mitchell. As a rule, I'll watch anything with Cameron Mitchell at least once. Even when the movie's bad, he's usually entertaining. I had read from another review that Mitchell's time was limited to a couple of minutes at the most. Well, not in my version of movie. I sat for almost an hour and a half and no Cameron Mitchell. What the . . . ? How can you put Mitchell's name in the credits and not deliver? What a rip!

My best advice is to stay as far away from this turkey as you can. Even if you find a copy that includes Cameron Mitchell, it's still not worth it.

Supremely silly in every conceivable way, "Ninja Assassins" is a lot of fun.

Much like the similar "Clash Of The Ninjas", this also starts with a multi-racial board room filled non-actors. In this case, the organization is called the "World Organization Of Peace". The letters WOP are featured prominently. Apparently, an evil-doer named "Nomad" is threatening the WOP-pers and there is only one man that can stop him: Of course, it's LEO FONG! (who did you expect?) The only problem is he is on death row and going to be executed. It is good that the "CYANIDE" and "ACID" are so clearly and cartoonishly labeled. Not to be confused with the "DANGER ACID" seen later in the movie. As Fong sits in some sort of gas\electric chair hybrid (The gas comes out of the chair) and the seatbelts are holding him in, we discover the execution was all a ruse, so he can shed his former identity and join WOP undercover in Manila.

Throughout the movie, there is a lot of torture with rats and snakes and you cheer when Leo unleashes his patented Fong-Fu on the baddies.

Everything here is great: the non-acting by the broken-English-only cast, the mustaches, the amazing 70s fashions, and the funky theme song that invokes both "Shaft" and "Poppa was a Rollin' Stone".

Further highlights in a movie of highlights include: A ninja popping' a wheelie on a motorbike, a ninja throwing shurikens in slow-motion, the "final field fight" which is a cross between awkward and laughable and eyeball-stealing brutality, the overall presence of Leo Fong which is just plain Fong-tastic and an unnecessary, but wicked boat explosion.

Contrary to what some people believe, the great Cameron Mitchell IS in the movie, but just in the last three minutes. Also this is under a myriad of titles. The most popular is "Enforcer from Death Row". This movie is not to be confused with "Ninja Enforcers" also reviewed on this site.

Fan Favorite Fong fights furiously with his Fong-Fu in this fun, fantastic feature film that features a final field fight!

I have to vehemently disagree with the only other comment for this movie so far. Yes, this is a bad movie, but no, it is not boring. I was laughing quite a bit at the ridiculous plot, terrible acting, and kung-fu that's almost as bad as a Dolemite movie. And that's bad! What we've got here is a 70's American-Filipino kung-fu masterpiece of insanity! Some pimp bad guy wants to "wipe out the entire nation" with deadly bacteria and ninja warriors. So, The "World Peace Organization" sneaks a murderer, who is on Death Row, out of the gas chamber and hire him as an agent. With a plan like that they can't fail! The pimp bad guy feeds various "spies" to his pet snakes and flesh-eating rats. Sideburns and plaid suits are the horrendous fashion of the day. Among the assorted crew of colorful villains is a big ugly black guy wearing large hoop earrings, whose name is "monster," and whose once-white T-shirt looks like he used it as toilet paper, as there are quite a number of brown smears all over it. The end kung-fu death scene with the burnt-faced guy generated laughter on top of laughter from me at the moronic noises emanating from the mouth of his pizza-face. On top of all this fun, Cameron Mitchell puts in a forty second appearance as some government big-wig slurping on a lollipop like his life depends on it. This one is well worth your while.