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  • 1987
  • R
  • Cannon Film Distributors
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 1987
  • R
  • Cannon Film Distributors
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary On a remote Caribbean island, Army Ranger Joe Armstrong investigates the disappearance of several marines, which leads him to The Lion, a super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.

Directed By: Sam Firstenberg

Written By: Avi Kleinberger, Gideon Amir, Gary Conway, James Booth

  • 1987
  • R
  • Cannon Film Distributors
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 1987
  • R
  • Cannon Film Distributors
  • 1 h 30 m

American Ninja 2: The Confrontation

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Summary On a remote Caribbean island, Army Ranger Joe Armstrong investigates the disappearance of several marines, which leads him to The Lion, a super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.

Directed By: Sam Firstenberg

Written By: Avi Kleinberger, Gideon Amir, Gary Conway, James Booth

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50
In the Cannon Films esthetic, the only good Ninja is a dead Ninja, and the bodies certainly fly fast and furious here. Okay, it's silly, but maybe you were expecting Tess of the D'Ubervilles? And from a director named Sam Firstenberg?
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This one is superior in almost every respect to the first, with slam-bang action, many humorous moments, and an excellent performance by Steve James.
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Script by actors Gary Conway (who plays the narcotics overlord) and James Booth trades heavily upon the notion of Americans inherent mental and physical superiority to native warriors, who are a dime a dozen, but in such a comic way that the viewer can laugh with it rather than at it.
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Sam Firstenberg--a decent enough action director who's shepherded along three previous ninja movies--here has a story so preposterous that nothing short of a mutiny could make the movie work.
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It has a charming actor named Scott James as Joe's buddy, Curtis Jackson. And it still has smartly produced scenes of black-clad ninja performing sleights of hand, foot, spear, dart, knife, chain and scimitar. What it doesn't have is a shred of originality. [07 May 1987, p.13A]
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Production Company Golan-Globus Productions, The Cannon Group
Release Date May 1, 1987
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating R
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