American Ninja 2: The Confrontation

American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987) is a full-throttle action film you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Sam Firstenberg, with Michael Dudikoff and Steve James reprising their roles from the 1985 original, the sequel moves the fight from the jungles of the Philippines to a sun-baked Caribbean island.

Army Ranger Joe Armstrong and Sergeant Curtis Jackson fly in to find out why a group of marines has vanished without a trace. The answer involves a drug lord who calls himself The Lion and a captured scientist turned into a weapons programme — genetically engineered ninja warriors, mass-produced and ready to deploy. Armstrong has to dismantle the whole operation by hand.

The film leans hard into what made the first one work: relentless fight choreography, a preposterous villain, and a complete lack of pretence about what it is. For fans of 1980s martial-arts action, this delivers exactly what the tagline promises. Stream American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987) online on iFILM.