There's nothing else in the universe of cinema that looks and sounds so cool, but is - in fact - as dreadfully boring as "ninjas". Seriously, the only remotely worthwhile concept I can link to ninjas is that of a bunch of turtles living in the sewers, but everything else with ninjas I ever watched is pure nonsense; - including this hopelessly dull and inept Chuck Norris vehicle. "The Octagon" is an overly ambitious, needlessly convoluted and substantially void piece of waste. There are a whole lot of meaningless supportive characters and far too many lame sub plots, but basically the plot simply revolves around one aspect: Norris facing his childhood buddy with whom he went through the long ninja training, but who eventually betrayed him and became his enemy. That guy - Seikura - now runs a clandestine training camp for aspiring terrorists. Great actors, like Lee Van Cleef, are aimlessly wandering about whilst Norris' supposedly integer performance is really poor. There are many irritating details about "The Octagon", but the one thing that annoyed me the most was Norris' constant and pointless brain-narrations. His head whispers to itself, and the stuff he wonders about are not at all interesting.
Review of The Octagon
