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FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Maziun *SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS*SPOILERS I'm not sure if this movie is really better than "American ninja 3". At least that movie had Steve James as Curtis Jackson in it. This movie is a wasted opportunity. The idea of having 2 American ninja's is nice , but it's badly executed.The story here seems to be written for Steve James and Michael Dudikoff. David Bradley is pretty much a sidekick here and Dudikoff's character appears into the story when he is told that is "friend" is in trouble. There was no evidence that Dudikoff and Bradley were friends in any of the three previous movies ! We never heard or saw any of this friendship. The connection between Davidson and Armstrong in the movie is laughable. If you're expecting something like buddy cop movie you will be disappointed. Dudikoff and Bradley make a fighting team only in the last ten minutes (!) of the movie.It's bad that Steve James isn't in the movie , but I think it was a good decision for him . He wouldn't have much to do here. My stinky socks have more charisma and acting skills than David Bradley. Thankfully for a large part of movie he is kept off-screen. Michael Dudikoff gives a "I don't give a f***" performance. He obviously doesn't want to be in the movie and sleepwalks his performance.The plot is VERY slow moving. There is quite a lot of action , but it's all uninspired and dull. The editing in fight scenes is sometimes VERY bad. There is quite a lot of stupidity in the screenplay. Arab terrorist with ninjas guarding him ?! Thousands of Mad Maxish rebels couldn't defeat the bad guy until the American ninja came in ?! The Mad Max group really out of place in this movie. And why the bad guys didn't simply kill Bradley , but kept him alive ?! The good things about this movie ? It starts off with not-bad action sequence. There are some unintentionally funny moments. For example Dudikoff catches an arrow in his mouth and then kills a ninja . The ninja training obstacle when some of the ninjas have unintentionally funny death scenes. Or dialogues like : "It fills me with ecstasy to know that I was one minute from meeting Allah!" , "Where we headed?" "MECCA!" Too bad that they can't save this dreadful movie. I'm amazed that they made enough money thanks to this movie to make even "American ninja 5". I give it 1/10.

FlashCallahan CIA agent Sean Davidson and his sidekick Carl are sent into the stronghold of sadistic British ex-soldier Mulgrew to rescue some Delta Force commandos who have been captured and tortured. When Sean, Carl and doctor Sarah run into some problems, Peace Corps vet Joe Armstrong is lured out of retirement to stop Mulgrew's plan to explode a nuclear device in New York City.....We all know what the American Ninja films entail, lots of men in black pyjamas running around a forest throwing sharp things at bad actors.And this is no exception, but at the end of the day, it's the same old thing time after time, good guys with better hair, trying to stop a sadistic villain, who wants to blow up the world.The villain in this one is so bad, in every literal sense, you just wish some twelve year old girl would just kick him in the jewels and tell him to go to bed. He swans around just shooting people and looking at chests, his acting is the most evil thing here.Then we have some über sort of ninja who has an eye patch, who you know is going to have a final fight with Dudikoff, but nothing never really happens and its just a waste.Add a montage with ninjas training and falling on spikes,mans two men getting into a helicopter you just know is going to blow up, you get a really average movie you may have liked when you were fourteen, but when your a little older, realise David Bradley wasn't such a good role model.

ebiros2 Michael Dudikoff, although not doing much acting, has more on screen presence in this movie. He's clearly evolved over this series as an actor, and has a leading man charisma to him in this movie.Unfortunately the series didn't evolve with him, but devolved.Seen one, seen em all characterizes this fourth installment of the American Ninja series. Producers might lose interest after the first few production, and they're only making it on inertia. Even a big franchise like the JAWS went the same route, so maybe we can't blame the producers too much.The story is choppy, and doesn't flow smoothly. Trying to find a meaning in a movie like this is a futile effort, but I wished they kept producing the movie in a nicer looking locations as they did in part 2 of this series.

MichaelM24 Realizing that nobody wants to see an AMERICAN NINJA film without Michael Dudikoff, the producers got him back for this entry in an attempt to make things right. Unfortunately, it didn't work. Headbashing Dudemeister doesn't even show up until nearly halfway through the film, after David Bradley (star of the previous film) and some friends are captured overseas during an important mission. Dudikoff's Joe Armstrong reluctantly agrees to come out of self-imposed retirement and save the day, rescuing the others and stopping James Booth's plot to detonate a nuclear weapon. There's a good bar fight with Bradley, and the climax (cutting between two fights, one with Dudikoff and one with Bradley) is pretty decent. They are no Jackie Chan moments, but then again, the AMERICAN NINJA films are more for "chop socky" fans.