American Ninja 2: The Confrontation

1987

Action / Comedy / Drama

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Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 40% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.9/10 10 9619 9.6K

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Plot summary

On a remote Caribbean island, Army Ranger Joe Armstrong saves an old friend from the clutches of "The Lion", an evil super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of mutant Ninja warriors.


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Top cast

Gary Conway as Leo 'The Lion' Burke
Jeff Celentano as Capt. 'Wild Bill' Woodward
Steve James as Sgt. Curtis Jackson
Michael Dudikoff as Sgt. Joe Armstrong
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by paul_haakonsen 5 / 10

The cheesy ninja onslaught continues...

This 1987 sequel to the 1985 "American Ninja" movie is essentially the same as the first movie, just with a different villain and location. But the rest of the story and movie was pretty much the same.

So is that a good thing or a bad thing? Well, that depends on if you liked the first movie or not. If you did like it, then you will like part two as well. And if you didn't like part one, then you will not like part two either.

Again, you got all the campy ingredients; cheesy storyline, generic characters, stereotypical villain, worthless henchmen, wonderful dialogue (you see the irony here, right?), action, martial arts, explosions and, of course, ninjas! Lots and lots of ninjas.

The acting was every bit as strained and wooden as in part one, but isn't that just part of the charm of these movies? One of my favorite things in "American Ninja 2: The Confrontation" was this particular piece of dialogue delivered by the commanding officer who requested the help of the US rangers: "I don't know who you are, what you are, or why you are here". Wait, what? Didn't he himself request the help?

Story-wise, well with little deviation from part one, it is about American ninja Joe Armstrong who is on a Caribbean island to solve the mysterious disappearances of US marine personnel, when he is confronted by a ninja syndicate.

While not a masterpiece, "American Ninja 2: The Confrontation" is as enjoyable as the previous movie. Equally campy, cheesy and requires little brain activity from the audience.

Reviewed by NightmareOnElmStreetFan 10 / 10

My personal favorite Ninja action sequel flick, Michael Dudikoff's best movie of all time

American Ninja 2: The Confrontation the sequel to American Ninja (1985) is my personal favorite Ninja sequel of all time. I love this movie to death the best movie of The Cannon Group they ever made. This was the first movie I saw in the franchise as a kid on VHS sadly I only saw half of the film. The tape ended and I did not come till end. One of my school mates invate me to his home and we watched the first movie on the tape, but sadly he did not let me to see this movie. He did not borrow me the tape but when it was on TV I taped it and had my own movie. Now I have all 4 Ninja movies on Blu-ray discs. The first 2 American Ninja movies are the best in the franchise they are great to watch they are entertaning martial arts action films. American Ninja 3 is alright, 4 and 5 suck!

The Cannon Group's best movie is American Ninja 2: The Confrontation and it will always be my favorite 80's martial arts action movie. Michael Dudikoff's best movie. I know that the first movie American Ninja was a big hit, they made this movie on a low budget. The budget for this movie was $350,000. That surprised me this movie doesn't look like $350,000. it looks like a great film. Lionsgate has nowdays terrible movies on a big budget now days, but old times you had a great movies on $350,000 on this movies. It fast paced, lots of action. Great soundtrack, great music score. My favorite music score from George S. Clinton really my favorite score in the whole franchise of alll five American Ninja movies.. Steven Seagal DTV movies are not great like this movie which is sad. I know the first American Ninja is people's favorite and the best one, to me American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987) will always be my favorite the best one nad the greatest Ninja flick ever.

Michael Dudikoff and Steve James both return from the first movie in the sequel as Army Rangers Joe Armstrong and Curtis Jackson. Joe Armstrong was always my favorite character. I always thought this movie was better than the original. Steve James R.I.P. I really miss him I really loved him in movies it was terrible when he died when I was only 9 years old.

The story is about on a remote Caribbean island 4 Marines disappeared without any trace. They call Army Ranger Joe Armstrong (Michael Dudikoff) and Curtis Jackson (Steve James) for help to look into the disappearances of the Marines. This leads to a drug empire headed by "The Lion", an evil super-criminal who has kidnapped a local scientist and mass-produced an army of genetically-enhanced Ninja warriors.

The movie has like ton's of action, fight scenes, great choreography. It has Ninjas tons of Ninjas. Ninja fights on the beach it is great. Steve James kicks Ninja's ass on the end is great. The beach scene is the best were Michael Dudikoff is alone and Ninjas try to capture him he avoid to be caught he uses his martial arts, beats Ninja's all practical done. They did not use stunt doubles for Dudikoff fight scenes. Steve James did his own stunts. Fighting 2 - 3 Ninjas at the same time with a Bo (stick) a lot of fight scenes. You have this bar scene in which Dudikoff appears with his motorcycle and when he try's to enter the bar he got attacked by those thugs and with no problem Dudikoff tears them apart. He gets to meet this guy Taylor (Jonathan Pienaar) who set him up on a beach. 7 thugs appear in the motel room and Dudikoff with his martial arts beats the hell out of them. There is the second bar fight with Dudikoff, James and this guy Larry Poindexter they get surrounded by group of thugs and you see gtreat fights all three of the lead characters did a great job.

Joe finds another lead by this sexy chick Alicia Sanborn played by Michelle Botes who was a sex babe and Joe wants to know more about to Blackbeard Island. Ninjas attacks him and Michael Dudikoff uses his skills in self defence and kills Ninjas. He rips some Ninja's head off you can see cuts on his head. He burn's some Ninja. Than Joe, Alicia and this kid Toto (Elmo Fillis) flee with a car and this Ninja is pursing them attacking them on the car all three jump off the car, the car flys, crasheses and explodes you see practical explosion great. In the finale you have great fight scenes wth swords. It is Ninja against Ninja. Joe dressed up as a Ninja faces off second Ninja: Tojo Ken played by Mike Stone. Great finale and I love Steve James fighting against the Ninja "Stay Down!" In my opinion by this movie they should have ended American Ninja series we did not need 3 awful sequels even tough I like American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt, but I don't love the flick I love this one and the first one. Those two to me are the best one. I will review American Ninja (1985) soon I just wanted to review this movie first.

Lets talk about the cast: Michael Dudikoff's best performance his best movie, best character as Joe Armstrong he is my favorite character Dudikoff ever played. Steve James is a bad-ass as Curtis Jackson I always love those two guys together. This is Dudikoff/James ultimate third and final collaboration between the two guys. Michelle Botes to me was better leading lady than the first chick from the first movie was. Judie Aronson I liked Michelle Botes a lot than Judie Aronson. Jeff Weston as Capt. 'Wild Bill' Woodwar I liked him a lot he was great. He was supporting Armstrong and Jackson I love that. In this movie we finally know Joe's last name because in the first movie he was only pronounced as Joe. In this movie his last name is Armstrong. Mike Stone was great he was a martial artist and he was a choreographer for the fight scenes they were all practical done. No CGI effects all done for real. Gary Conway he was the blond drug dealer who made millions with drugs by making biogentic clones of Ninjas and selling to other people. Leo 'The Lion' Burke great name for the villian The Lion. Gary Conway wrote a script for the movie with James Booth the actor who previously played in Sho Kosugi movie Pray for Death (1985). Gary Conway best acting performance. Sam Firstenberg is second and final American Ninja movie he directed. Sam Firstenberg is great action director in the 90's he directed some good action movies. American Ninja 1 and 2 will be his best movies.

In my opinion American Ninja 2: The Confrontation is equal as Rambo: First Blood Part II they are both my favorite movies. 80's had great action movies and horror slasher movies. First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rambo III, American Ninja, American Ninja 2: The Confrontation those are my favorite action movies I cherish and i love to death. I love them the sequel is the best one to me. I love the chemistry between Joe and Alica and Joe and Curtis works as a team better than in the first movie.

Reviewed by GOWBTW 8 / 10

Another great ninja film!

Here's another great martial arts action film. Prior to the first AN, American Ninja 2, provide lots of action and suspense just like the first one. This time taking on "superninjas" they weren't so super to me there. Both Armstrong and Jackson(Michael Dudikoff and Steve James) were always on top of things. The Marines weren't so warm to the Army Rangers at first, but when it was getting the job done Armstrong and Jackson don't play around. Armstrong was all techniques, Jackson was all power, that's why he is later named "Powerhouse" Jackson. He was the martial artist with attitude. Especially when he stomped on the ninja and he said, "STAY DOWN!" You don't play with Powerhouse Jackson. The outside fight scene with Joe and the ninjas were memorable as well. I liked the part where Joe catches the dart with his hand and took out that ninja with the shuriken(throwing star). These characters were outrageous, they'll make any brawler run home to mama. This movie is just as good as first, however it does have more action though, which I like the best. Rating 3.5 out of 5 stars.

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