Tedfoldol
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Inadvands
Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess
Comwayon
A Disappointing Continuation
Lidia Draper
Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
bkoganbing
As great drama or even great action films the American Ninja series will never be up there with Rambo or Dirty Harry. Yet it's All American hero Michael Dudikoff was a popular favorite in the 80s and 90s and found a winning formula for quite a stretch. Just don't take this seriously folks.The second of the American Ninja series has Dudikoff and Steve James sent as army rangers on a case to discover why some Marines are disappearing on a Caribbean tropic island country where these Marines are most informal. They don't even go around in uniform except on special occasions.Who's behind all this villainy is the island's leading citizen Gary Conway best known in his salad days as Gene Barry's young lieutenant sidekick in Burke's Law. Conway who wrote the story and cast himself as villain is creating a new version of mutant Ninjas. Like Moose Malloy Conway is trying to burn the fear out of them. This in order to help with his drug smuggling enterprises, the source of his wealth. He looks like he's having a ball.And raking in the money I'll bet.Lots of martial arts for fans of same.
jessegehrig
The kindest thing that can be said of this movie is that they did not intend for American Ninja 2 to be so homo-erotic. Not since Top Gun has as much man-chest and man-thigh been so wantonly on display in an action movie. Clearly the producers were hoping to make a much different sort of action film, and when you watch it you see two visions at war with each other, one force wanting to make a ninja movie and the other force wanting to make gay porn. Whatever children through-out history whom have seen this movie hoping for just a ninja related action movie must have been sorely mistaken, oh God the hilarity, I mean man those kids must have really thought 'hey yeah a ninja movie this can't go wrong' then they watch this oddity play out. Yeah good luck kids!
kurciasbezdalas
OK maybe the plot wasn't that good as in the first part. But this part is more entertaining. Here is a lot more of ninja combats so the ninja fans should be left satisfied. The movie itself wasn't supposed to be very serious so it was really fun to watch it. This time Steve James get more of the show. He was really funny and his fighting scenes were really better than in the first part. This movie is full of action from the beginning to the end. Fighting scenes were more impressive than in the first part although it sometimes wasn't in a very good quality. The main bad guy ninja is played by the Mike Stone the brother of Sharon Stone who's famous for his karate skills and an affair with Elvis Presley's wife. He was also a Martial arts coordinator in the first four "American ninja" films. So if you liked the first part you will probably like this one too.
Devo523
I first saw this movie when i was 13 on the wgn movie of the week. This was the showcase for numerous jean claude movies and Bronson Death wish flix. But this movie stands out on its own. When I first saw it I had never laughed at a movie so much in my life, and immediately I knew I needed to own it. SO i waited around and found out when it was on next and taped it off TV. Then the studying of greatness started.There are numerous Flaws and items of interest that one should look for to help them through this classic. First and foremost is dudikoff ( the American ninja)'s delivery. Everything is said in the same monotone intense voice. For example, He would say the line "I want to kill you!" the same way he would say, "I love you" or "The president has been kidnapped." And also his giant package that my girlfriend noticed last viewing of the movie which is ridiculous and pertruding.Now for individual scenes; When Dudikoff and James are meeting with Wild Bill for the first time, look at Dudikoff at the end of the scene and you will see that it isn't dudikoff at all but a stunt double. Next the scene on the beach with the first conflict with the ninjas. Not only are the ninjas super bumbling but at the end of the scene James and Dudikoff are shown jumping off a 100 foot cliff, but in the cut away they gingerly land on the back of a speed boat without injury.There are other scenes and memorable items but I must mention one more. 'THE SUPER NINJA' - There is a ninja in the movie that really isn't a character in the movie but a random ninja that is somehow immortal compared to the rest of the ninjas that dudikoff kills with a punch. This ninja flips onto a truck, gets knocked off, pulls out a grappling hook, holds on while being dragged, causes a motorcycle accident, flips back onto the front of the truck, still alive crawls up the front right before the truck that he's on flies into what appears to be a gasoline plant of some sort and into a giant fireball. Kudos.THank you golan globus. I love you.