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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Script by actors Gary Conway (who plays the narcotics overlord) and James Booth trades heavily upon the notion of Americans inherent mental and physical superiority to native warriors, who are a dime a dozen, but in such a comic way that the viewer can laugh with it rather than at it.
- 50TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThis one is superior in almost every respect to the first, with slam-bang action, many humorous moments, and an excellent performance by Steve James.
- In the Cannon Films esthetic, the only good Ninja is a dead Ninja, and the bodies certainly fly fast and furious here. Okay, it's silly, but maybe you were expecting Tess of the D'Ubervilles? And from a director named Sam Firstenberg?
- 40Los Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonLos Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonSam Firstenberg--a decent enough action director who's shepherded along three previous ninja movies--here has a story so preposterous that nothing short of a mutiny could make the movie work.
- 38Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneIt has a charming actor named Scott James as Joe's buddy, Curtis Jackson. And it still has smartly produced scenes of black-clad ninja performing sleights of hand, foot, spear, dart, knife, chain and scimitar. What it doesn't have is a shred of originality. [07 May 1987, p.13A]