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.
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Title: American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987)
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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.
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
1 May 1987 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$350,000 (estimated)Gross:
$4,000,000 (USA)Company Credits
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Written and Performed by Michael Bishop
Produced by Barry Rudolph
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Although the original film was one of Cannon's few hits, the company greatly slashed the budget for the sequel when they hit financial trouble. See more »Goofs
Joe and Curtis obviously borrowed their Dress Blue uniforms from Staff Sergeant McDonald. Provided they also borrowed his ribbon set as well, both Joe and Curtis are wearing different ribbons from one another. Furthermore, the only row of ribbons that do match between the two of them is the bottom row, however they are in a different order which would be unlikely even if the two sets of uniforms actually belonged to them as ribbons and metals are arranged by precedence. See more »Quotes
Wild Bill Woodward: I don't like that tiny maggot, I don't like him at all. I mean what is this? Ninjas? Drug pushers? My men being kidnapped and murdered? This is really beginning to get on my tits.See more »
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Slippin' SandsWritten and Performed by Michael Bishop
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Crapped out of the minds of the people who brought us: NINJA III: THE DOMINATION, CYBORG COP II, SPIDERS II: BREEDING GROUND, and +sigh+ the amazing BREAKIN' II: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO comes American NINJA III...I mean II. Whatever...
Joe Armstrong and Joe Jackson go to some island paradise, which of course in infested with ninjas. Good guys meet bad guys. Bad guys go dead. All is well in the land.
But THANK YOU GOLAN/GLOBUS for bringing us this trash...it might surpass DEATH WISH III as the funniest film of all time. It is perhaps one of those rare instances where every single person involved in any way with this film, was doing the most mediocre job possible. Truly some events like this only come along once in a lifetime. The fight choreography in this film is beyond comparison to anything in the modern world. It took three people to write this script, they probably thought it was clever that the first name of the bad guy "THE LION", is actually "LEO". HMMMMMM FORESHADOWING. Remember this word class....FORE SHA DOW ING.
One day I will buy the rights to this movie and re-dub it to my taste.
If you play with GI JOES and eat PASTE, this is probably you're favorite movie. If you're a 10 year old boy, you are forgiven. The rest of you FOR SHAME.
Steal this movie if you have to...it's worth it. American NINJA II **** stars.comedy.1987