'American Ninja 3 : Blood Hunt' (1989) - Cedric Sundstrom.

As though to give skull crushing credence to the age-old adage of 'third time lucky', director, Cedric Sundstrom's feisty third instalment in the beloved American Ninja opus is a demonstrative, trampoline-sized leap above the disappointing sequel, this time cannily giving powerhouse side-kicker, Curtis Jackson (Steve James) far more of a prominent Ninja-nuking role as the vest-bursting Jackson! The limber, Bon Jovi-haired newbie, David Bradley and sword-master, Curtis meet at a martial arts competition and subsequently decide to investigate the inevitably suspicious, diabolically shady machinations of 'The Cobra' (Marjoe Gortner), the duplicitous fiend who contrived the Karate games merely as an invidious rouse to evilly expand his own comicbook-tastic, super-virus making villainy!!!!

Having a new director helming the good ship Ninjutsu appears to have galvanized the previously flagging fist-flinging franchise, since there's considerably more pep to the Ninja-strewn narrative as Curtis, Sean and the delectable 'Ninjette Baby' (Michele Chan) courageously, if somewhat foolhardily take on the malevolent pharmacist and the deeply corrupted General Andreas (Yehuda Efroni), erstwhile despotic ruler of the island who so callously murdered Sean's martial artist father during a bungled heist at a karate tournament many years before.

American Ninja 3 : Blood Hunt' is positively tumescent with all the stridently stimulating 1980s action movie ingredients: righteously delivered revenge, explosively exciting knockdown martial arts mastery, a triumphantly coiffed ninja hero, the immortally cool dude, Steve James and the mesmerizing Ninjette Baby! Sundstrom's moorish martial arts madness made ever more irresistible by its cherry sweet topping, the splendidly rousing, brain-wormingly wicked theme by maestro, George S. Clinton, all in all this Cannon classic is a deeply satisfying, Ninja-enriched B-Movie treat! 

'Faster! Stronger! Braver than a force of super Ninja!' Right on Cannon!!!'