And hilarity ensues.....


This film, and the others in this series, are fond memories for me from my childhood... which says a lot about the filmic tastes 15 year old boys than it does about the quality of these movies, but anyway.....
I recently re-watched the first three (I had to stop there because, even as a teenage action movie fan the fourth installment had me watching the counter on the video display waiting for the end) and while I still enjoyed them it was for, some, different reasons. Not least of which is the high, "Cheese Factor," but they weren't trying to make, "Schindler's List," here, just a decent, daft, B-Movie and some elements still stand up. Others however, don't. Aside from the infamous, "That's not Michael Dudikoff!!!!!" scene in the commanding officers office (which has been discussed a lot in these forums and which still stuns me to this day at how lazy that piece of editing is, I mean they could cut well before the guys turns and shambles out, glancing at the camera!) this one struck me for the first time when I re-watched it....
When Joe and Curtis land at the airport they get off the plane, look at the terminal and Joe takes a piece of paper out of his pocket, looks at it, looks at the terminal again, and then says something like, "Yup... This is the place!" Like the army gives you a post-it note with your orders on! And then you get on a flight that MIGHT or MIGHT NOT take you to the country you need to go to! Didn't they find out the flight's destination BEFORE they got on the plane?! Getting out of a cab in front of a building and doing that scene I can understand, but getting off a plane???!!! The best part is the airport doesn't even have a sign up saying where you are ANYWHERE! Begging the question, "How do they KNOW this is the right place?" Was the piece of paper Joe had a DRAWING of the airport? Hilarious stuff!

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That is hilarious. Arguably more hilarious, is when Joe and Curtis jump from that cliff into the boat. Their preposterous soft and perfect landing, ludicrous beyond words.

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There's also the scene where Michael Dudikoff is hiding in the back of the, now wrecked, commanding officers car when they pick him up at the Embassy after the fight at The Blind Beggar. Why doesn't he just NOT go back with them?! Is he THAT attached to riding in the car?! Heck, if they need to speak to him that badly, why don't they leave him at the end of the drive and pick him up on the way out?! There are also the several instances where, as in all, "American Ninja," movies, our heroes catch knives, throwing stars and (my own personal favouite) arrows in mid air and we watch them wobble barely past the camera as they throw them back, only for the shot to cut to the pesky ninja who threw it in the first place getting it in the head/chest/neck (delete as applicable) with enough force to send it 12" into them with enough of a, "THUD," to send them flying as though it's been fired from a Howitzer 2 feet away.

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I always loved how meditation brings about a smoke bomb and the change to Dudikoff's original ninja suit.

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Bingo.

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