When you think of “badass”, who comes to mind? Seagal? Bruce Lee? How about Michael Dudikoff? Didn’t think so. However, Dudikoff was like a low budget version of Chuck Norris, if you will. Well in 1986, he was the main character in a film called Avenging Force, which is about a bunch of racist and rich white folk from the deep south (New Orleans to be exact), and their favorite pastime is hunting – wait for it – people!

In case you’re looking at the above movie poster and thinking “wait a second, I know that guy!”, well that means you recognize Dudikoff as the one, the only, American Ninja!

So the movie starts off with two dudes running through a wooded area with swamps and shit like that, being hunted down at first by a guy that looks like a cross between a ninja and a mannequin (it’s the mask). Then they’re spotted by this other guy that’s full of muscles and resembles the Iron Sheik a bit with that mustache. There’s another guy that’s all Rambo’d out with the Army fatigues and the leader of this pack who for some reason has the gayest hunting costume of all – he wears a peacock mask or whatever you call it.

In American Ninja, Dudikoff teamed up with Steve James (R.I.P.) and kicked some major ninja ass, so what better than having them reunite in Avenging Force to fight off these rich bastards? With James being a target in a political race, The Pentangle (the rich racists) are looking to put a bullet in his face. Do they succeed? Oh hell no, not as long as Capt. Matt Hunter (Dudikoff) is around to kick some ass! They try and fail, as Hunter kills about 7 of their hit men, which of course means that he’s a target now, leading up to the finale where Hunter has to play the Pentangle’s hunting game by being the hunted.

After burning down a house and killing a bunch of people, the Pentangle have kidnapped Hunter’s little sister in order to force him to play their game. As Hunter goes to find them, he first looks for his sister, who is being whore’d out by a bunch of trannies (no, really). They proceed to hunt down Hunter and – wait a second. Matt Hunter, oh I get it, they probably named him “Hunter” because he’s hunting THEM and his name is oh ok I get it. Ya so they’re trying to hunt him down but it’s Matt Hunter that proceeds to hunt THEM. One by one he dishes out a serious dose of ass kickery with punches, kicks, round houses, flips, stabbings, knife throwing, you name it. And all of this is going on in a muddy, backwoods area soaked in water from the downpour of rain! How’s that for badass? Just look at this picture where he’s forcing information out of a guy who he just stabbed:

In the end, we get to see a nice showdown between Hunter and the last remaining douchebag, inside of a mansion nonetheless (because all racist white folk have mansions and drink Cognac), plus the story ends in a way that sets up a possible sequel (which never happened, too bad!).

Overall, I highly recommend this movie if you’re into action, fighting, and badassery. Watch the trailer and see for yourself!