The Octagon (1980)

Chuck Norris plays the lead as a disillusioned martial arts specialist who is forced to put an end to a terroist ninja training camp who is being run by his evil half brother; Seikura, who Chuck seems to have some telepathic connection with. Unnesasary dialogue and plot makes the film drag to the point where it becomes like a strange cinematic opiate. Watching this late at night resulted in it taking 5 sittings! However, the combination of ninjas, Chucks painful wooden acting, bad script, shonky editing, A Team-esque scoring, all on a murky VHS like print makes it thoroughly enjoyable. The original poster art looks amazing and no doubt sold the film to a lot of martial arts fans... Who in true 80s style were probably a bit disapointed!
4.5/10