Commando Ninja

This is the first time I've ever written a review for a movie on IMDb. I felt the need to write this review because Commando Ninja might possibly be the greatest movie I've ever seen.

I recommend this to anybody that is a fan of the 80s action movie genre. It's a fast paced movie with amazing actors and an incredible storyline. I can't say enough about this movie, it is a must see.

It's a boring, predictable knockoff of the golden era of action movies, filled with 2-bit humor for the modern masses (the same masses that speak in emojis, have no notable skills or any form of success, can't formulate proper sentences, and certainly can't handle the basics of adult life).

If that's you, which it likely is, you will love this movie!

If you enjoyed the movies of yesteryear because they were sincerely trying to make a good movie, and failed miserably, then you won't like this (for example, anything from The Cannon Group). Or, if you liked the movies because they actually had masculine characters that would stop at nothing to wipe out the bad guys (and remain unharmed the entire time), then you won't like this. Why? Well, similarly to the people who view this movie in a positive light, 'Commando Ninja' just isn't genuine at all. It is too forced, and that never works out well for movies, music or humor.

Fun, silly low-budget splatterfest. All tongue-in-cheek as it spoofs vintage action, sci-fi and horror flicks. But it ends abruptly and without important closure on the plot (to the extent that one exists). Were they planning on a sequel, or did they just run out of money? For a cheapie like this, they may have been forced to wrap when the camera guy's mom called him home for supper. Even so, if they ever do shoot Commando Ninja 2, I'll be there to watch where these folks go with it.

I am an 80's fan. I love cheese, sexy women, action, adventure and machismo. Modern movies seem to lack all these things. The grit, the blood and the sweat is lost in today's movie making experience.

Then independent film makers emerge and give us something mindbogglingly glorious like Commando Ninja, which can be found via youtube.

It seems only way modern movies can capture the lost enthusiasm of the 80's today, is to make a small production yet innovative, whacky, balls to the wall, cheesy nostalgia satire/riff of those movies we once loved as kids in the 80's and early 90's.

Commando Ninja seems to combine Godfrey Ho(Director of many 80's Ninja movies), with Arnold Schwarzenegger's Predator-esque ninjas, and throws it in a blender with some funky, 80's inspired schlock and music and you know what, it works....it works well.

The plot fairly simple. A man on a mission to rescue his family and friends, who are being killed off by enemies from the past. Then you throw in tons of cheese, revenge, and testosterone filled heroism. It's a a mix of flashbacks and the current day 1980's settings and fans of 80's action heroes will spot homages to Rambo, Predator, American Ninja and everything inbetween.

The movie is loads of fun and I highly recommend watching it, then purchasing the soundtrack if the musical score impressed you as it did me.

I give it an easy 9.5 out of 10. Tons of fun, action, homages, innovative film making that reminds us that small production values, nostalgia and testosterone can work.

You gotta love a film whose tagline is "50% commando, 50% ninja, 100% American".

The 1980's has produced some of the "greatest" classic action films, "Commando Ninja" simply continues this tradition with "great" dialog, "fast-paced" action scenes, "top-notch" special effect, an "intelligent" plot and lots of explosions, decapitations, amputations and severed arteries.

I bet Stallone and Schwarzenneger must feel a little envious for not being part of this cinematographic masterpiece.

And best of all, it has been dubbed!

Commando Ninja is the best thing I've seen in a long while. Kudos to the Freench for making one of the best American Action films!