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American Ninja 5 (1993)

Rate: 1
Viewed: 7/08

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7/08: American Ninja V is hands down the worst American Ninja movie I've ever seen.

David Bradley, who plays Joe Armstrong, looks and acts like a total jerk. The biggest mistake is the casting of Lee Reyes as the unlikable Hiro. The former is endlessly saving the latter. But why? I don't care about him. When the kid is finally allowed to learn the secrets of ninjistu, he becomes a ninja overnight and looks adept applying them when he couldn't handle the nunchunks two days before.

Majority of the time, it only takes a weak, sometimes shadow, punch or kick to knock out the ninjas. Speaking of ninja tricks, the art of disappearing initially looks cool, but it's tiresome when invoked many times. How the poisonous gas works still baffles me. If one breathes some of it, he either immediately dies or gets sick. Only the baddies have the worst while the good guys are completely unaffected.

When Viper (who's wearing a cape!) shows off his trusty two-pronged hand claw, it's evidently clear that he had been watching lots of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Here's a Believe-It-or-Not trivia: the character of Glock is played by an actor named Clement von Franckenstein.

All in all, American Ninja V is a dumb, childish picture that's made for the little boys with an overactive imagination.