If this is the ultimate weapon, one wonders why maniacal Leo keeps sending squadrons of them at Jackson and Armstrong, who seem capable of killing 10 at a clutch every time.īy the end, with ninjas dropping left and right, you begin to be sorry for the little black and red devils. Martial arts movies usually depend on the quality of their fight scenes here, most of the fights seem as cloned as the ninjas. But what response could anyone with a sense of humor have logically made here, besides: “What? Me? Direct this?” To Firstenberg’s credit, he tries to play up the subject’s comedy. 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. We’ve even had Swedish ninjas-in the flabbergasting “Ninja Mission.” But cloned ninjas? We’ve had ninjas galore ever since karate expert Mike Stone dreamed up this martial arts subgenre in 1982’s “Enter the Ninja"-ninjas in white, ninjas in black, ninjas in red, ninjas screaming and kicking and waving their swords and nun-chuks. To make good his babbling, he’s kidnaped an elderly scientist with a beautiful daughter, and has him hard at work scrambling up DNA to produce the world’s ultimate weaponry breakthrough: cloned ninjas.
This crazed Leo really acts like someone with unlimited access to cocaine: Every time he gets miffed, he threatens to start World War III. There, megalomaniacal drug czar Leo “The Lion” has traduced the local government and is kidnaping Marines right and left, while embroiled in a fiendish conspiracy. In “American Ninja 2: The Confrontation” (citywide), two happy-go-lucky American soldiers, Joe Armstrong and Curtis Jackson-both karate experts and one a ninja master-are transferred to a corrupt tropical isle.
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