The Commander

April. 28,1988      
Rating:
4.8
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Lewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast is unusually good including Lee Van Cleef, Brett Halsey (Cop Game), Romano Puppo (Robowar), Mike Monty (Raiders of Atlantis), Bobby Rhodes (The Great Alligator), etc. Anyway, Van Cleef has Collins go on some random mission to locate a disc with all sorts of valuable crazy intelligence data on it. It just happens that Donald Pleasence, a random government official, hires another mercenary-for-hire Manfred Lehman to tag along and make sure the data ends up in the right hands. Van Cleef isn't taking any chances, and since he is crooked and murders Collins's other bosses quickly, he places Romano Puppo in the group as well to make sure the operation runs smoothly. Collins may not be too expressive but at least he seems to figure out quickly who's out to get him, so the mission continues with lots of double-crosses, twists and turns, and of course lots of explosions!

Lewis Collins as  Major Colby
Lee Van Cleef as  Col. Mazzarini
Donald Pleasence as  Henry Carlson
Brett Halsey as  McPherson
Manfred Lehmann as  Mason / Hiccock
Bobby Rhodes as  Kongo Klaus
John Steiner as  Duclaud
Romano Puppo as  Angelo
Thomas Danneberg as  Gustafson
Christian Brückner as  Frank Williams

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Reviews

Ceticultsot
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Beautiful, moving film.

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Stoutor
1988/04/29

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

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Bergorks
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If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

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Arianna Moses
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Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

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