American Ninja
(1985)
Overview
Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter with little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in the Philippines after a judge gives him a choice of enlistment or prison. On one of his first missions driving a convoy, his platoon is attacked by a group of rebels who try to steal the weapons the platoon is transporting and kidnap the base colonel's daughter.
Director
Sam Firstenberg
Writers
Paul De Mielche, Avi Kleinberger, Gideon Amir, James R. Silke
Top Billed
Michael Dudikoff
Keywords
Top Billed Cast
Crew
Collection
American Ninja Collection
Reviews
PolyWogg
⭐ 6/10February 24, 2019
The Bottom Line
A basic action movie from the '80s but it doesn't hold up.
Plot
An American soldier with special skills gets posted to an island base where someone keeps hijacking military convoys. When his convoy gets hit, he's cooperating right up until someone hits the Colonel's daughter, and then he intervenes. His memory of his childhood is mostly gone from an explosion on an island, but he has obviously had training. When the hijac…
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misubisu
⭐ 8/10July 12, 2024
The acting is terrible, the scripts and dialogue are terrible, the plot is [extremely] shallow.
But, I love this movie... from the 1st time a watched it (a straight to VHS video tape).
The fighting sequences are actually pretty well done, and believable.
You'll get many laughs out of the non-sensical dialogue and some good entertainment out of the action and fighting scenes.
A diamond in the rough, that's for sure.
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Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
$1,000,000
Revenue
$10,499,694