American Ninja 5: O Pequeno Ninja

I have no idea what to say about this movie.

It's clearly it's own idea just added the title just to lure American ninja fans to buy this razzie movie.

David Bradley is back but not as Sean but as Joe, and this Joe is not found in the jungle, he has miyagi as his teacher and he use to have a brother named jimmy witch was never mentioned in the other movies.

And to top it all, he has to take care of miyagis nephew who is a home alone wannabe, what is with the early 90s movies to make kids annoyed and better than adults. It's ok once but not many.

This movie is not an American ninja movie, the series ended with American ninja 4.

This is an inferior outing with plenty of action , adventures , fights and suspense in a comic book style . New and last entry in which the tough American Ninja encounters ample reasons and opportunity to use his deadly skills . David Bradley starred fourth installment in "American Ninja" series titled ¨American Ninja: Annihilation (1990)¨ by Cedric Sundstrom with David Bradley, James Booth , Ken Gampu , going on this ¨American Ninja 5¨(1993) with Pat Morita , Lee Reyes , Norman Burton . This ¨American Ninja 5¨ has little to do with former entries , it explains why star David Bradley performs Joe , a different role than the Sean Davidson character he played in ¨American Ninja 3 : Blood Hunt¨and ¨American Ninja 4: The Annihilation¨. In ¨American Ninja 5¨ there're lots of karate combats , fighting and full of suspense and thrills . When a scientist's daughter is kidnapped , American Ninja , Joe Kastle (David Bradley), attempts to find her , but this time he teams up with an annoying brat , a youngster named Hiro (Lee Reyes) he has trained in the ways of the ninja . Kastle and his young sidekickset out in rescue of their friend , Lisa (Anne Dupont) , who has been captured , and being mistreated by some hoodlums .They attempt to free her , held for blackmail in the fortress of a villainous ruler , the nefarious Glock (von Franckenstein) , featuring an army of training Ninjas who obey the chief's every command . There a scientific is refusing to work on a potentially dangerous project , but this scientist results to be Lisa's father , who's coerced to develop a deadly insecticide , in order to plan a formula to use as a lethal military weapon . Of course , the villainous tyrant is supported by bands of implacable ninjas commanded by the evil Viper (Lew) . So Joe and Hiro must go through a series of dangers and confontations to execute their risked mission . As they'll wipe out a passel of violent Ninjas , as the relenting pair running afoul while facing off evil criminals . The two-fisted American Ninja Joe Kastle must take on deadly terrorist contenders , but then , things go wrong . Now his most deadly enemy ... is time. Evil with no cure. A warrior with no fear. The Magic Power of the Ninja Is About to Reveal Itself...

Lots of action , thrills , non-sense fighting and plenty of silly intrigue . This time the 'The American Ninja' David Bradley to do battle a sadistic terrorist along with his band of Ninjas and along the way , showing their impressive karate skills . As Joe Kastle joins a little boy against an army of violent Ninjas and his ruthless chiefs who are planning a fiendish global terrorist venom , threatening the world peace with horrifying disasters ; as our brave protagonists must save the kidnapped girlfriend and to stop terrible schemes . 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 . Meanwhile , Joe and Hiro forge an intimate , agreeable friendship filled with wisdom , oriental philosophy and hard training based on the ways of the ninja . It's a gripping story of one man's feat and his short-aged partner , both of whom undertaking a dangerous rescue , including graphic violent scenes . At the beginning this movie was not originally intended to be part of the American Ninja series ; however , producers : Ovidio G. Assonitis , Bob Bralver and Perlmutter , changing of mind . The film displays a Norris' style , but Chuck does it much better . This low-key art-martial film is the firth entry about a heroe , the brave Joe Kastle along with his proficient very young sidekick , all of them executing a difficult mission . Stars David Bradley who is beefy as ever by playing a valiant karate man utilizing efficiently his deadly skills , and replacing the always good-looking , attractive Michael Dudikoff . And co-starred by the sympathetic Lee Reyes , brother of the most known Ernie Reyes who at the time starred various chop-socky movies . And some B-secondaries such as : James Lew , Marc Fiorini , Yamashita , Norman Burton and Clement von Franckenstein boasting his badness with hammy panache . Special appearance by Pat Morita, the famous Sensei plays briefly when he pawns off his "grand-nephew" Hiro on Joe and leaves to go to Greece for a vacation. Entertaining , though pedestrian -at times- screenplay , very loosely 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 . The film was lousily produced/directed by Bob Bralver , he's a low-grade expert about art-martial and Ninjas sub-genre , rip-offs and second-class films.

¨American Ninja¨ has various entries starred by Michael Dudikoff , subsequently replaced by David Bradley and Steve James , being mostly directed by Firstemberg and Cedric Sundstrom . As 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 Michael 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. ¨American Ninja IV¨ (1980) by Cedric Sundstrom with David Bradley , Michael Dudikoff , James Booth , Ken Gampu , Robin Stille and here the late Steve James who early died of pancreatic cancer is substituted . And ¨American Ninja 5¨ (2003) by Bob Bralvel with 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 : Menahem Golan , Yoram Globus made it under the title American Dragons but the title was modified to American Ninja V before release .

I havn't seen the other four films, but judging from the nature of this one, I assume the other four were something like it. The worst part of this horrible film are the ninja thugs that the hero beats up like it is an everyday hobby. In the first place, the "ninja" thugs do NOT behave like real ninjas. Come to think of it, neither does the hero. Ninjas are supposed to be ASSASSINS who work in the night and kill with STEALTH and SILENCE. The thugs here dress up in the most cheesy and plain costumes and come out screaming loud and waving their swords and nunchakus like they think they know how to use them, only to be clobbered by the hero within a second or two. This film is good if you are under 10 years old and like movies where none of the good guys die and all of the bad guys die. True Lies may have been like that too but it does it with STYLE. Another dumb aspect of American "Ninja" 5 is most of the lines are retarded. Example: After the boy Hiro manages to clobber a couple of ninja thugs(as if a twelve year old could beat up a "ninja"), and rides on top of a wheeled table which the hero uses as a battering ram through the thugs, one of them reports to his boss:"the boy was this big, but he had the strength of ten men" as if he was describing an encounter with a deadly alien. So in conclusion, for mindless hokey fun, this is a good movie. For good quality action flick, this is pure dumbness at its best.

I can live with David Bradley being a bad actor and all, but when just everything else is just as terrible as his acting, it starts to get real ugly. American Ninja V is a great example of how some people just don't know when to stop. After the third movie, this series has been nothing more than a piece of crap. This last movie is the worst of them all. The action scenes (fight scenes, mainly) are very bad. The story is childish, stupid and totally uninteresting. I almost fell asleep several times during the movie, and even the action didn't make it any better. What is Pat Morita doing in this disaster? I guess his quality control was out of function the day he signed up for this one.

I've been seeing lots of movies on the bottom 100 list lately and they have been getting steadily worse, the last one, Th underground comedy movie was just horrible. American Ninja 5 though, is far too good for that list. Sure, the dialog is stupid, the plot is stupid, the action is lame, and he actors can't act but it's fun. You really have to see this as a comedy (a much funnier one than many of the actual comedies on the list) which is made abundantly clear by he use of light hearted music in all the action scenes. I would like to give this film a higher score than 3 out of 10 but I can't ignore the fact that it is a bad film, in pretty much every way. American Ninja 5 is in essence a "so bad it's good" movie but doesn't quite get there.