Ninjas are on a murder spree, and the helpless police call for help from a Turkish police lieutenant who had once defeated them.Ninjas are on a murder spree, and the helpless police call for help from a Turkish police lieutenant who had once defeated them.Ninjas are on a murder spree, and the helpless police call for help from a Turkish police lieutenant who had once defeated them.
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- TriviaThe reason for the confusing plot and lack of continuity in this film is as simple as it is appalling: It was made by using footage from another Çetin Inanç / Cüneyt Arkin collaboration, Son Savasci (1982). For Ölüm Savasçisi, the filmmakers used half the footage of Son Savasci, changed the order of the scenes and added a lot of unused footage, fill-in scenes, plus a few scenes stolen from foreign productions, to give it the look of a different movie. However, Son Savasci was more or less a straightforward film with a linear story line, whereas Ölüm Savasçisi suffered from choppy editing and incoherent plot. Most of all, it suffered from not being written and shot as an actual movie, but being pieced together by using leftovers.
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land of no continuity
No doubt you've heard that Turkey made a bunch of no-budget ripoffs of famous movies ("The Exorcist", "Young Frankenstein", "E.T."). Çetin İnanç's "Ölüm savasçisi" ("Death Warrior" in English) is not a ripoff of a specific movie, but imitates the style of martial arts flicks. Except that it has ZERO continuity. The entire movie looks like a series of random scenes arbitrarily stitched together. I gave the movie five stars simply because the sheer corniness makes it very enjoyable: sped-up action scenes, bikini-clad women, and a shot that seems to be paying homage to "The Evil Dead". It's a perfect example of bad Turkish cinema from a director who apparently also did a "Star Wars" ripoff. Cüneyt Arkın is apparently a frequent star of Turkish action flicks, and continues to act to this day.
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- Aug 7, 2013
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