Second-rate wannabe ninjas(actually American stunt guys who could've really benefited from an Asian martial arts consultant)are genetically engineered by a scientist forced into it because Leo "The Lion" Burke(Gary Conway, blonde hair, white suit and all)threatens the life of his daughter. The lion's crew had been successful at kidnapping marines for further testing so two Army Rangers, Joe & Curtis(Michael Dudikoff & Steve James)are brought in to find their whereabouts. On an island called Blackbeard(I'm not joking), The Lion, along with his right hand man, one-eyed(one eye is scarred for proper menacing effect) "ninja-master" Tojo Ken(Mike Stone), will use a compound built on Blackbeard as his major drug empire along with his massive growing ninja army. Will Joe and Curtis be able to infiltrate this massive compound while also dodging The Lion's cohorts in the city across from Blackbeard? If you like corny 80's ninja actioners where bad guys wait to be punched and couldn't hurt Dudikoff if they wanted to, this is right up your alley. It's a programmer like many that came out in the 80's and early 90's which fed starving martial arts chop-socky fans with absurd plots and plenty of broken bones. This film, itself, merely serves as an excuse for Dudikoff to snap a lot of necks, limbs & bones..and he does so with a great endless supply of these ninjas who keep coming in droves to be slaughtered in a bevy of ways. It's fun to see James playing the muscular bad ass for it seems he's having a blast. The film provides those who like this sort of thing a small plot, with little acting, and a lot of people getting kicked and thrown in the air. A bar serves as a major source for the body throwing. A lot of the fight sequences are badly choreographed so that Dudikoff could come off unstoppable as ninjas seem to fall right into their demise.
