jessegehrig The kindest thing that can be said of this movie is that they did not intend for American Ninja 2 to be so homo-erotic. Not since Top Gun has as much man-chest and man-thigh been so wantonly on display in an action movie. Clearly the producers were hoping to make a much different sort of action film, and when you watch it you see two visions at war with each other, one force wanting to make a ninja movie and the other force wanting to make gay porn. Whatever children through-out history whom have seen this movie hoping for just a ninja related action movie must have been sorely mistaken, oh God the hilarity, I mean man those kids must have really thought 'hey yeah a ninja movie this can't go wrong' then they watch this oddity play out. Yeah good luck kids!

Woodyanders Joe Armstrong (the likable Michael Dudikoff) and Curtis Jackson (the equally engaging Steve James) battle a legion of genetically engineered ninja assassins on a Caribbean island. Director Sam Firstenberg, working from a blithely inane script by Gary Conway and James Booth, relates the delightfully ludicrous story at a swift pace, makes the most out of the exotic locale, and stages the wall-to-wall action set pieces with rip-roaring brio. James and Dudikoff make for a charming duo, Conway snarls it up with wicked aplomb as nefarious drug lord Leo "The Lion" Burke, and the fetching Michelle Botes provides plenty of spark (and tasty eye candy) as the foxy'n'feisty Alicia Sanborn. Moreover, the gut-busting array of hopelessly incompetent ninjas (they run around in broad daylight clad in hilariously conspicuous black garb!), continuity gaffes galore, and an inspired sense of giddy absurdity further enhance the infectiously campy merriment. Gideon Porath's slick score gives the picture a pleasing glossy look. George S. Clinton's bouncy score hits the stirring spot. Good cheesy fun.

peterpants66 Ninja's are elusive, tricky and often found in the middle of nowhere. Michael Dudikoff and Steve James reprise their roles as ninja exterminators in this classic sequel to one of the best black masked franchise's of all times. There's a comfy tropical island with a military base mainly guarded by Marines, but since they keep going missing the United States Government went ahead and employed the best tag team of ninja sweepers out there. You should know what to expect by now, hidden ninja fortress's, super evil bosses, high eyebrows. Watching the Koff and Steve James snuff out the enemy has all the rock and roll you might imagine. There's a scene in the beginning where the duo are being set up, an attack ensues. The Koff is catching arrows and throwing them back, block and punch combos are thrown, and in one scene he brakes a stick in half and throws part of it like a disc at a cliff ninja who folds like a sun chair and falls to his doom. It's action like this that makes the series magical, i only wish they could have kept Dudikoff and James in all of them. Great sequel, great flicks, R.I.P Steve James.

disdressed12 to me,this sequel had a more developed plot line than the first movie.it a fairly preposterous one,but it is semblance of a story nonetheless.and besides,reality doesn't necessarily factor into these movies in a big way,so that's not surprising.there are many more fight sequences in this one as well.and to me,the fight scenes seemed better executed,much more exciting.the acting is no better or worse than in the first one.i actually think as a whole the movie is slightly better due to the improved fight sequences.again you just have to remember that it's not high art you're in for when you sit down to view this film,or it's prequel/sequels.it basically a disposable(but enjoyable)ninety +/-minutes.for me,American Ninja 2: The Confrontation is an 8/10