American Ninja 4: The Annihilation
American Ninja 4: The Annihilation is a 1991 American martial arts action film starring Michael Dudikoff, David Bradley, and James Booth. A sequel to American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989), it is the fourth installment in the American Ninja franchise, followed by American Ninja V and was directed by Cedric Sundstrom. The film marked Michael Dudikoff's final appearance in the American Ninja franchise.
| American Ninja 4: The Annihilation | |
|---|---|
 Theatrical release poster | |
| Directed by | Cedric Sundstrom |
| Produced by | Ovidio G Assonitis |
| Written by | David Geeves |
| Starring |
|
| Distributed by | Cannon Pictures MGM/UA Home Video Warner Home Video |
Release date |
|
Running time | 99 minutes |
| Country | United States Lesotho |
| Language | English |
Plot
A Delta Force unit attempts to escape from a pursuing group of ninja in a foreign country but most are killed and the rest are captured. The secret Ninja Army is headed by Colonel Scarf Mulgrew (James Booth) an ex-British policeman and anti-American who has joined with Sheikh Ali Maksood (Ron Smerczak), a Muslim militant, who plans to bring a suitcase nuke to New York. Mulgrew threatens to burn the commandos alive and use the nuke unless he is paid a ransom of 50 million dollars. Agents Sean Davidson (David Bradley) and Carl Brackston (Dwayne Alexandre) are sent on a covert mission to rescue the prisoners and defeat the terrorists.
Sean and Carl parachute in and meet their contact Pango (Jody Abrahams). While gathering information from a local operative named Freddie (Anthony Fridjhon), they are confronted by Mulgrew and the corrupt local police headed by O'Reilly (Frantz Dobrowsky). Freddie is killed by Mulgrew but Sean, Carl, and Pango escape. Pango takes them to Doctor Sarah (Robin Stille) a Peace Corps nurse who hides them from the police. Soon after ninjas attack, capturing Sean, Carl and Sarah alive while Pango escapes, and imprisoning them in an old British fort to be tortured by Mulgrew. Mulgrew assaults Sarah and later it is revealed Mulgrew killed her father.
Joe Armstrong (Michael Dudikoff), a special forces commando now working as a teacher with the Peace Corps, is finally persuaded to help rescue his friend, Sean, and the others. Joe convinces the local rebel group known as Sulphur Springs, a former penal colony led by Dr. Tamba (Ken Gampu), to join them and they steal engineering plans to the fort. Joe enters the fort stealthily and rescues Sean, Carl, Sarah and most of the commandos as they are being executed while Sulphur Springs also attacks the fort. Maksood's helicopter carrying the bomb is destroyed by Carl, Mulgrew is killed by Sean, and the ninja master (Kely McClung) is killed by Joe. Joe bids goodbye to Dr. Tamba and to Sean saying he will be at the school before walking away through heaps of dead ninjas and the debris of the destroyed fort.