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As a child of the 80's I just have to say- American Ninja 4: The Annhiliation is positively the worst one. But the first American Ninja is a classic as far as Ninja movies go. It's no Pray For Death that's for sure but it's still up there.

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I really liked part 2. All that non-stop fighting of hordes of ninja super soldiers, and that final battle with the bad guy.

I took those movies so seriously as a kid.

That fight scene at the beach ... hooboy, talk about something that I had rose colored glasses on for the last 30-odd years :P

As did I to the point of reading Stephen Hayes books on the subject, the history of Hattori Hanzo, and learning the martial arts techniques. I was a horrible child in retrospect I could take a long rope tied to a weight and use it to climb onto a branch 20 ft. in the air. Somehow I thought my parents would think this was "cool" and send me to Japan for more training. As it turned out I was grounded a lot :(

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