The Octagon of the film title appears 1 hour 22 minutes into the film and up to that point the movie is tedious. There is hardly any action and there are scenes where the dialogue makes no sense from one line to the other. In fact for most of the film was not sure what was going on. It only gets better at the end when the action ramps up. The action isn't great but it is lively with lots of lovely real explosions that contemporary CGI cinema has forgotten to do.
Chuck Norris can't act as usual but does get to display his undoubted martial art skills, mainly at the concluding mayhem. Apart from the legendary Lee Van Cleef who is watchable as always the rest of the cast are frankly uninteresting. Richard Norton, Gerald Okamura and Ernie Hudson do appear but only briefly which is a shame. At 103 minutes the film takes far too long to get to the action climax. But it does have evil ninjas so one can't complain too much.
Chuck Norris can't act as usual but does get to display his undoubted martial art skills, mainly at the concluding mayhem. Apart from the legendary Lee Van Cleef who is watchable as always the rest of the cast are frankly uninteresting. Richard Norton, Gerald Okamura and Ernie Hudson do appear but only briefly which is a shame. At 103 minutes the film takes far too long to get to the action climax. But it does have evil ninjas so one can't complain too much.