American Fighter II - The Mission

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Movie
German title American Fighter II - The Mission
Original title American Ninja 2: The Confrontation
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1987
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Sam Firstenberg
script Gideon Armir,
James Booth ,
Gary Conway
production Yoram Globus ,
Menahem Golan
music George S. Clinton ,
Michael Bishop
camera Gideon Porath
cut Michael J. Duthie
occupation

American Fighter 2 - The Order is an American martial arts and action film from 1987 and was produced by Cannon Films . It is the first sequel to American Fighter from 1985. Michael Dudikoff again took on the lead role .

action

Joe Armstrong is part of the United States Army's elite force. The former ninja is sent to special operations by this association, the task of which is usually to free people from prison camps behind enemy lines. When several highly decorated Marines disappear, Armstrong is notified and given the task of finding out where the soldiers are. With his partner Curtis Jackson he discovers the kidnapped people on a Caribbean island . Joe Armstrong discovers that a megalomaniac millionaire has the scientist Sanborn make DNA alterations on the kidnapped in order to turn them into mindless ninjas who obey orders and slaughter everything. Since they are consistently denied the official approval for a clarifying military strike for tactical reasons, Joe takes matters into their own hands with the help of the daughter of the scientist Sanborn, Alicia. In the end Curtis manages to get the Marines to intervene secretly. With their help and Alicia's father, the friends prevent a hostile takeover of the USA by the fighting machines. The originator of this plan, Leo Burke, as well as the island's corrupt police chief are arrested. Most of the ninjas die during the battle or at Joe's hand during a combat demonstration.

Reviews

Industry paper Variety wrote in its January 1, 1987 issue that the plot was "an excuse for extended martial arts showdowns between the heroes and black-clad villains." The script by actors Gary Conway and James Booth was "based on the thought." an innate mental and physical superiority of the Americans over the native warriors, but in such a way that the audience can laugh along with them instead of at them ”.

The film can be seen as a propaganda work that contributes significantly to brutalizing young people and legitimizing violence as a means to an end. Furthermore, the criticism was loud that the film - similar to The Red Flood - could create a racist feeling of superiority in young people. Richard Harrington poked fun at the title and dialogues in the Washington Post on May 4, 1987. So "it's not the punch lines but the punches that are the most important thing about this film, in the aesthetics of the Cannon Films only a dead ninja is a good ninja." He was surprised that Steve James kissed a woman, which "maybe one." Premiere for a martial arts film “was.

Gross profit

With an estimated budget of $ 350,000, the film grossed $ 4 million at the box office. This makes it the second most successful part of the American Fighter series.

It opened in cinemas in the Federal Republic of Germany on September 9, 1987, where it was seen by 280,821 visitors and grossed 1,339,416 D-Marks .

Production and publication

The production of American Fighter II - The contract extended from November 1986 to January of the following year, with filming from January 5, 1987 to March 4, 1987 in South Africa .

Its premiere took place in the USA on May 1, 1987, in Germany on September 3 of the same year, and on January 19, 1988 in Germany it was released on VHS.

The film was indexed until 2009, in 2012 it was submitted to the FSK for re-examination and the unabridged version received the approval “16+”. The first release on VHS was shortened and provided with an affixed FSK-18 approval, which was wrong, however, as the FSK never checked such approval. So there was only one cut FSK-16 version on video.

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proof

  1. ↑ American Ninja 2: The Confrontation. In: Variety . Archived from the original on July 10, 2015 ; accessed on September 18, 2018 (English).
  2. ↑ American Ninja 2: The Confrontation , Richard Harrington, released May 4, 1987, accessed October 1, 2008.
  3. ↑ boxofficemojo: AMERICAN NINJA 2 , accessed October 1, 2008.
  4. ↑ boxofficemojo: AMERICAN-NINJA-Franchise , accessed October 1, 2008.
  5. ↑ a b Business Data, imdb , accessed October 1, 2008.
  6. ^ Filming locations, imdb , accessed October 1, 2008.
  7. ↑ American Fighter 2 - The Mission. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on January 14, 2017 ; accessed on September 18, 2018 .
  8. ↑ American Fighter 2 now also for ages 16 and up on Schnittberichte.com from April 28, 2012.
  9. ↑ http://www.schnittberichte.com/svds.php?Page=Fassung&ID=12659