Commando Ninja

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.

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.

I thought this film was brilliant. It hits every single '80s cliche. Magnum PI, Commando, Predator, Miami Vice, any jean claude van damme film u name, terminator... the list just goes on. I will admit i do like my s****e films but that shouldn't put you off. Anyone over the age of 35 or so will find enough pop culture references to keep them at least chuckling throughout the film if not outright laughing. Definatly worth a watch and one of the more amusing films i've seen. Even down to the little touches like solar panels in 1986 and film posters that didn't come out till 2-3 yrs after when it's supposed to be set. (spoiler) I loved the way the kid managed to set a trap for the ninja in the time it took said ninja to walk up the stairs. The only film i can think of that was better for this whole schlock type thing was Iron Sky 2. The Coming Race.

Commando Ninja is a weird hybrid action movie of any 80s pop culture references that you can think of and it hella beautiful not because it not only a good tribute to a glorious era fill with ninja, alien, dinosaur, robot.... but it also a proper movie franchise in the making cause after it end I really want to watch" Commando Ninja 2:The Wasteland right the f now. I give big props for the director and the cast for knows exactly what they are doing unlike those terrible and trying too hard to be funny 80s action movie knock-off out there Commando Ninja actually got a style of it own and it look so stunning and so 80s - like to the point that I thought it an actual movie and not a parody one plus the big battle at the mansion and the Red Ninja fight are damn near perfect. If there something I hate about this movie it must be the intentional horrible dubbing of some character

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.