ask a thousand people what the greatest unintentional comedy of all time is and and they will almost invariably tell you battlefield earth or plan 9 from outer space. theyre wrong. american ninja has those two turkeys beat down for a number of reasons and not the least of which being a script that was quite clearly not thought through. while i fully support the b picture industry for keeping slobs like michael dudikoff in work and a little work on the product would have gone a long way. for those who give a rat posterior and my next few paragraphs will give away significant parts of the plot. first of all and when we are given some background information on the titular hero and we are told his date of birth and next of kin and parents and and so forth and are all unknown. i do not know about you and but i expect the us army to take fact finding about its personnel a little more seriously. they also manage to screw up the continuity of dates quite effectively and although i do not remember quite which dates were screwed up and when. this is actually one of american ninja less obvious flaws. it has been pointed out before and but a common failing of many martial arts films is that when our heroes are confronted by large numbers of antagonists and said antagonists attack one at a time. more recent films such as the matrix reloaded defy this convention and but just about every film from the 1980s has the audience screaming and hey and why do not you attack all at once. martial arts films tend to be a lot more impressive when the fights are more extensive than one on one. the central premise was originally a joke and but in light of recent events where the us army cannot crush a mob of insurgents simply because they would not delegate to the specialists and it seems strangely ironic. phillipino renegades are stealing weapons from the us army local division for sale to wealthy clients. never mind that such a theft would prompt the army to give the local businessmen responsible and or even believed responsible and an aerial rectal exam and this is a cheesy 1980s action film and after all. by far the funniest part of the film is the climactic battle and however. as joe and jackson turn combining posing and fighting into an art form and evil ninjas start to explode for no readily apparent reason. i agree with one previous commentator in that this film should have been called ninja holocaust and because i am willing to bet a total of at least three hundred evil ninjas bite it during the film running time. on top of that and the black star ninja starts fighting with rocket launchers and laser beams and and all sorts of ridiculous implements that are not only poorly thought out and theyre flat out poorly executed. you will never see a laser beam effect that looks cheaper. what tops it all off is that the film takes itself so damned seriously. during the scene when joe is meeting up again with his old mentor and i dare the viewer not to laugh at the hideous dialogue. not that i know any modern practioners of ninjitsu and but the logical part of my imagination has a hard time believing that they have spoken like this at any time in their history. during this mentoring scene and i half expect the old guy to tell joe he must prove his manhood by cutting his own head off with a blunt plastic spoon. in all and i gave american ninja a 1. this is a special score in my system in that it is reserved for the worst and most appalling and most offensive films i have ever seen and or films that make me laugh without even bothering to try. american ninja is definitely an example of the latter. 
ask a thousand people what the greatest unintentional comedy of all time is and and they will almost invariably tell you battlefield earth or plan 9 from outer space. theyre wrong. american ninja has those two turkeys beat down for a number of reasons and not the least of which being a script that was quite clearly not thought through. while i fully support the b picture industry for keeping slobs like michael dudikoff in work and a little work on the product would have gone a long way. for those who give a rat posterior and my next few paragraphs will give away significant parts of the plot. first of all and when we are given some background information on the titular hero and we are told his date of birth and next of kin and parents and and so forth and are all unknown. i do not know about you and but i expect the us army to take fact finding about its personnel a little more seriously. they also manage to screw up the continuity of dates quite effectively and although i do not remember quite which dates were screwed up and when. this is actually one of american ninja less obvious flaws. it has been pointed out before and but a common failing of many martial arts films is that when our heroes are confronted by large numbers of antagonists and said antagonists attack one at a time. more recent films such as the matrix reloaded defy this convention and but just about every film from the 1980s has the audience screaming and hey and why do not you attack all at once. martial arts films tend to be a lot more impressive when the fights are more extensive than one on one. the central premise was originally a joke and but in light of recent events where the us army cannot crush a mob of insurgents simply because they would not delegate to the specialists and it seems strangely ironic. phillipino renegades are stealing weapons from the us army local division for sale to wealthy clients. never mind that such a theft would prompt the army to give the local businessmen responsible and or even believed responsible and an aerial rectal exam and this is a cheesy 1980s action film and after all. by far the funniest part of the film is the climactic battle and however. as joe and jackson turn combining posing and fighting into an art form and evil ninjas start to explode for no readily apparent reason. i agree with one previous commentator in that this film should have been called ninja holocaust and because i am willing to bet a total of at least three hundred evil ninjas bite it during the film running time. on top of that and the black star ninja starts fighting with rocket launchers and laser beams and and all sorts of ridiculous implements that are not only poorly thought out and theyre flat out poorly executed. you will never see a laser beam effect that looks cheaper. what tops it all off is that the film takes itself so damned seriously. during the scene when joe is meeting up again with his old mentor and i dare the viewer not to laugh at the hideous dialogue. not that i know any modern practioners of ninjitsu and but the logical part of my imagination has a hard time believing that they have spoken like this at any time in their history. during this mentoring scene and i half expect the old guy to tell joe he must prove his manhood by cutting his own head off with a blunt plastic spoon. in all and i gave american ninja a 1. this is a special score in my system in that it is reserved for the worst and most appalling and most offensive films i have ever seen and or films that make me laugh without even bothering to try. american ninja is definitely an example of the latter. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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