misubisu2024-07-12T01:05:38.315Z

8/10

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.

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PolyWogg2019-02-24T23:24:10.989Z

6/10

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 someo...

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Release

30/08/1985

Rating

⭐ 6.0/10

Runtime

95 min

Status

Released

Budget

$1,000,000

Revenue

$10,499,694

Genres

Action Adventure

Languages

English

CollectionAmerican Ninja Collection

Production

Links

IMDb Wikidata

American Ninja

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.