New installment in which the tough American Ninja encounters ample reasons and opportunity to use his deadly skills . Michael Dudikoff returns for the fourth "American Ninja" : ¨American Ninja: Annihilation¨ by Cedric Sundstrom with David Bradley, James Booth , Ken Gampu . This explains why star David Bradley plays Joe, a different character than the Sean Davidson character he played in American Ninja 3 : Blood Hunt . In American Ninja 4: The Annihilation(1990) there're lots of karate combats , fighting and plenty of suspense and thrills . CIA agent Sean Davidson (David Bradley) and his sidekick Carl (Dwayne Alexandre) are sent into the stronghold of heinous British ex-soldier Mulgrew (James Booth) to rescue some Delta Force commandoes who have been captured , mistreated and tortured . Then Sean , Carl and a beautiful Peace Corps worker called Sarah (Robin Stille) who uses her morgue as a hiding place , join forces to rescue them but they run into some problems . They attempt to free captured Delta Force soldiers , held for ransom in the fortress of a villainous colonel and his evil Arab dictator ally who plan to send a missile into New York . As the nasty rulers have imposed a dictatorship at a country and supported by bands of implacable ninjas . Sean Davidson and his pal , Brackston , a linguist, are assigned the task of infiltrating the fortress of the cruel former British soldier Mulgrew , featuring an army of training Ninjas who obey the sheik's every command . But then , things go wrong and vet Joe Armstrong (Michael Dudikoff) who is working as a teacher as well as enjoying a pacific life , is called and he reluctantly goes into action . The two-fisted American Ninja must face a deadly terrorist contender . Now his most deadly enemy ... is time. Evil with no cure. A warrior with no fear.

Lots of action , thrills , shoot-outs and non-sense fighting and plenty of silly intrigue . This time the 'The American Ninja' , Michael Dudikoff , teams up to David Bradley to do battle against a sadistic terrorist and his band of Ninjas and along the way showing their impressive karate skills . As Joe Armstrong lured out of retirement joins Sean Davison against an army of violent Ninjas and his ruthless chiefs : a nasty soldier and a a villain Arab who are planning a fiendish global terrorist attack , threatening the world peace with horrifying disasters ; as our brave protagonists must save the kidnapped people and to stop Mulgrew's plan to explode a nuclear device in New York City . Of course , the main amusement results to be the breathtaking fights between the valiant heroes against the super-Nijas dressed in black, hooded , a blade on the back and using Shinkaisen, a metallized star they throw . It's a gripping story of one man's revenge and a dangerous rescue , including graphic violent scenes . The film displays a Norris' style but Chuck does it much better . This violent art-martial film is the fourth entry about our heroes , the brave Joe Armstrong , Sean Davidson along with his proficient sidekick , and here the late Steve James who early died of pancreatic cancer is replaced , all of them undertake a difficult mission . And enjoyable secondaries as James Booth boasting his badness with hammy panache , Ken Gempu , Ron Smerczak and Robin Stille who sadly died and very early by committing suicide . At the beginning this movie was not originally intended to be part of the American Ninja series ; however , producers Ovidio G. Assonitis , Avi Lerner and Christopher Pearce changing of mind . Stars two expert fighters : David Bradley and David Bradley , as they'll wipe out a passel of violent Ninjas , as the relenting pair running afoul while facing off evil criminals . David Bradley who is beefy as ever plays a two-fisted karate man utilizing efficiently his deadly skills , as well as the always good-looking and attractive Michael Dudikoff . Entertaining , though pedestrian -at times- screenplay by actor/writer James Booth , based on characters created by Avi Kleinberger and Gideon Amir . Atmospheric musical score composed by synthesizer in similar style to previous entries and functional cinematography by Yossi Wein who would countinue to shot a lot of B-action films . The film was regularly directed by Cedric Sundstrom , he's a low-grade expert about art-martial and Ninjas sub-genre and in Delta Force rip-offs . ¨American Ninja¨ has various entries starred by Michael Dudikoff substituted by David Bradley and Steve James and mostly directed by Firstemberg and Cedric Sundstrom . Cedric worked in the theatre as an actor and stage manager. He got to work as an assistant director on international films made in South Africa. He has worked in England, America, Italy and lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. His brother, Neal Sundstrom, is also a director . Cedric has shot some action and thrillers films , such as : The Revenger , Treasure Hunters , The Shadowed Mind , The Mountain , The foster gang , Captive Rage and American Warrior III .

The American Ninja series is formed by the following ones : the first two "American Ninja" series entries produced in middling/low budget by Yoran Globus and Menahem Golan, Cannon Productions , ¨American Ninja I¨ (1985) by Sam Firstemberg with Michael Dudikoff , Steve James . ¨American Ninja¨2 (1987) by Sam Firstemberg with Dudikoff , Steve James , Larry Poindexter , Gary Conway , Jeff Celentano . ¨American Ninja 3 : Blood Hunt¨(1989) , here Michael Dudikoff turned down the lead role in this film for various reasons , among them being the fact that he didn't want to get burned out on martial-arts movies , being replaced by David Bradley , along with Steve James , but David Bradley's character was originally offered to Kurt McKinney, who turned it down for fear of being typecast as a martial-arts actor. And American Ninja 5 (2003) by Bob Bralvel David Bradley , Lee Reyes , Pat Morita , Anne Dupont , James Lew , Clement von Franckenstein , this film was not originally intended to be part of the American Ninja series . As Cannon Pictures made it under the title American Dragons but the title was changed to American Ninja V before release.

Plenty of white stuntmen in colorful ninja uniforms get pulverized in this fourth film in the "American Ninja" franchise, THE ANNIHILATION. Michael Dudikoff returns to the franchise after skipping out in the previous entry, but David Bradley(..who was the star of "American Ninja III:Blood Hunt")also comes back providing fans of the series with two heroes to root for as they attempt to free captured Delta Force soldiers, held for ransom in the fortress of a mad sheik and sadistic colonel who plan to send a missile into New York. Sean Davidson(Bradley)and his partner, Brackston(Dwayne Alexandre),a linguist, are assigned the task of infiltrating the fortress of a cruel former British soldier Mulgrew(James Booth) and evil Arab dictator ally, featuring an army of training Ninja who obey the sheik's every command. The Arab dictator is always ranting and raving about Allah which drives Mulgrew bonkers, but that's what you put up with if you wish to be a fiendish global terrorist. Soon Sean and Brackston are temporarily rescued by a kind Peace Corps worker, Sarah(Robin Stille)who uses her morgue as a hiding place. Soon, though, despite Sean's impressive skills, the trio are taken into custody and held in a chamber, their executions, along with the remaining Delta Firce soldiers, are planned for the next day. Former agent, Joe Armstrong(Dudikoff)is called upon to rescue them all, despite the fact that he retired from duty to pursue a more peaceful lifestyle alternatively different than his days as a ninja killer. But, understanding that his best friend Sean was also kidnapped, he agrees to take the job, going into hostile territory to engage the enemy, in an attempt to subdue his foes and help his people break free from certain doom. He'll need help in this group of Mad Max rejects, desert dwellers who have formed a commune under their charismatic leader, Dr. Tamba(Ken Gampu). With Tamba's people raiding the fortress and combating the evil ninja army, Joe will use an old ammunition tunnel(..supposedly dynamited)as a method into the place.

Ludicrous action flick, easily the worst of the series. Dudikoff looks like he'd rather be elsewhere instead of in this movie. He doesn't even show up until like 50 minutes into the film;it was Bradley's show until then. The story is as ridiculous as you could possibly imagine and there are mountainous plot holes. As you often notice in movies like this, instead of killing such a threat as Bradley when you have him at your mercy, the villains allow him to live...even twenty-four hours before an execution has one scratching your head because why would such loathsome people allow him to live even minutes? Ninjas shout when they are shot, and as always in these movies, before a villain swings a weapon at our heroes he has to make a loud noise letting the opposition know he's behind him. Gosh, is Steve James' missing presence a liability..even if the plot is crap, he adds a good deal of pop to the proceedings. Robin Stille is lovely and sweet as a constant source of abuse at the hands of Mulgrew. Booth is perfectly fiendish and despicable as Mulgrew, building a bastard you can't wait to see beaten to the inch of his life. My favorite sequence, as completely silly as it is, has Joe catching an arrow in his teeth, stabbing it in the neck of a ninja! Bradley does get a chance to show of his flexible skills, but this turns into the Dudikoff show once he's imprisoned. I personally like Bradley, although his skills as an actor are limited, he has a likability to him. He's certainly more animated than Dudikoff who seems to be on life-support. The Mad Max group who assist Dudikoff are laughable and seem really out of place in this movie. It's quite clear throughout that Dudikoff's stunt double had a great deal of work in this film.

When you are living in poor eastern Europe town, you see things in different colours)) When I was kid, two things defined my interest for this Movie:

• Two American Ninjas in one film at the same time! Take 2!
• Ninjas of all colours! Take 5!
• New bad Ninja boss! Take 3! Now it's 10/10