American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt

American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Cedric Sundstrom
Screenplay by	Cedric Sundstorm[1]
Story by	Gary Conway[1]
Produced by	Harry Alan Towers[1]
Starring	Steve James Michele Chan Calvin Jung Marjoe Gortner David Bradley
Cinematography	George Bartels[1]
Edited by	Michael J. Duthie Bernard Weiser[1]
Music by	George S. Clinton[1]
Production company	Breton Film Productions Ltd.[1]
Distributed by	Cannon International[1]
Release date	February 24, 1989 (1989-02-24) (Los Angeles[1])
Running time	89 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$5,002,153 (US)[2] $654,454 (West Germany)

American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt is a 1989 American martial arts action film directed by Cedric Sundstrom and starring David Bradley. It is based on a story by Gary Conway.^[1] A sequel to American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987), it is the third installment in the American Ninja franchise, followed by American Ninja 4: The Annihilation (1991).

The film depicts a cobra-themed terrorist who is experimenting on using viral infections as a method of bioterrorism. When an infected ninja and his allies try to fight against him, they are confronted with a private army consisting of clones.

Plot

A powerful terrorist known as "The Cobra", has infected Sean Davidson, the American Ninja, with a deadly virus. He uses Sean as a test subject in his biological warfare experiments. Sean and his partners Curtis Jackson and Dexter have no choice but to fight The Cobra and his army of genetically-engineered ninja clones led by the female ninja Chan Lee.

Cast

• David Bradley as Sean Davidson
  • Stephen Webber as Young Sean Davidson
• Steve James as Sergeant Curtis Jackson
• Marjoe Gortner as "The Cobra"
• Michele B. Chan as Chan Lee
• Yehuda Efroni as General Andreas
• Calvin Jung as Izumo
• Evan J. Klisser as Dexter
• Grant Preston as Minister of Interior
• Mike Huff as Dr. Holger
• Alan Swerdlow as Police Captain
• Thapelo Mofokeng as Police Sergeant
• Eckard Rabe as Sean's Father
• John Barrett as Joe Simpson (uncredited)
• Mike Stone as Tournament Arbiter (uncredited)

Production

Filming

The film, shot in South Africa (not mentioned on the credits), was the first in the American Ninja series to feature a lead actor other than Michael Dudikoff (playing Joe Armstrong in the first two American Ninja movies as well as in American Ninja 4: The Annihilation together with David Bradley's character Sean Davidson); Bradley was cast after Kurt McKinney turned down the offer.

Release

Home media

American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt was released on home video in the United Kingdom by Pathé in September 1989.^{[citation needed]}

Reception

Critical response

It was received poorly by critics.^[3] "Cart." of Variety described the film as a "cheap-looking pic" and "Even for this level of by-the-numbers action filmmaking, Cedric Sundtrom script is incredibly lame and his staging of chop-socky violence is little better."^[4]

References

1. "American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt". American Film Institute. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
2. American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt at Box Office Mojo
3. Willman, Chris (1989-02-28). "'Ninja 3': Bland Leading the Bland". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-09-04.
4. Cart. (1991). Variety's Film Reviews 1989-1990. Vol. 21. R. R. Bowker. There are no page numbers in this book. This entry is found under the header "March 1, 1989". ISBN 0-8352-3089-9.

External links

• American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt at IMDb
• American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt at AllMovie
• American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt at Rotten Tomatoes