Plotwise, this film hasn't really got much going for it. Dudikoff and James become involved with some problems when a few marines in Bermuda shorts get kidnapped by......ninjas.Someones dad has been kidnapped too, because the bad guy in the white suit wants to create the perfect specimen. And he must be dangerous, because one of his henchmen has a lazy eye, and kills other ninjas for a laugh.The guy with the lazy eye is the toughest ninja because on the beach, he stands on a rock and makes threatening hand gestures to Dudikoff.The second installment of the series isn't very good, but is made watchable thanks tho Steve James. Besides from his awesome hair, he spouts out one-liners and is the person in the film who can do that thing where lots of people jumps on him and he can throw them all off at once and get them to sound like someone has just got a strike bowling.Dudikoff doesn't fare as well though. he spends the majority of the film pouting, but you know he is the American ninja because he gently slides a sword across a bad guy and they die.It's typical 80's fodder from Cannon, so you know what to expect.Light on plotSilly fight scenessillier bad guyand even sillier music which plays when ever there is an impending fight scene.It's forgettable stuff, but worth watching if your a fan of the franchise.

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.

Second-rate wannabe ninjas(actually American stunt guys who could've really benefited from an Asian martial arts consultant)are genetically engineered by a scientist forced into it because Leo "The Lion" Burke(Gary Conway, blonde hair, white suit and all)threatens the life of his daughter. The lion's crew had been successful at kidnapping marines for further testing so two Army Rangers, Joe & Curtis(Michael Dudikoff & Steve James)are brought in to find their whereabouts. On an island called Blackbeard(I'm not joking), The Lion, along with his right hand man, one-eyed(one eye is scarred for proper menacing effect) "ninja-master" Tojo Ken(Mike Stone), will use a compound built on Blackbeard as his major drug empire along with his massive growing ninja army. Will Joe and Curtis be able to infiltrate this massive compound while also dodging The Lion's cohorts in the city across from Blackbeard? If you like corny 80's ninja actioners where bad guys wait to be punched and couldn't hurt Dudikoff if they wanted to, this is right up your alley. It's a programmer like many that came out in the 80's and early 90's which fed starving martial arts chop-socky fans with absurd plots and plenty of broken bones. This film, itself, merely serves as an excuse for Dudikoff to snap a lot of necks, limbs & bones..and he does so with a great endless supply of these ninjas who keep coming in droves to be slaughtered in a bevy of ways. It's fun to see James playing the muscular bad ass for it seems he's having a blast. The film provides those who like this sort of thing a small plot, with little acting, and a lot of people getting kicked and thrown in the air. A bar serves as a major source for the body throwing. A lot of the fight sequences are badly choreographed so that Dudikoff could come off unstoppable as ninjas seem to fall right into their demise.

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.