Commando is an hour and a half of pure action, one liners, Arnold Schwarzenegger and general greatness. This movie has to be one of my favourite movies of all time with a great cast, high budget and a good, simple storyline.

Perhaps the most violent martial arts movie ever made.

Intro

Perhaps you've never heard of Sonny Chiba. Perhaps your only knowledge of "The Streetfighter" relates to the 90's arcade game featuring Ryu, Ken and Guile.

But Sonny Chiba does exist, and so does his 1974 masterpiece of violence, "Gekitotsu! Satsujin ken", or "The Streetfighter". This is a bad film. A very bad film, but don't get me wrong, it's bad in a good way. There's no particularly coherent story to speak of and the dialogue at times appears to make little sense. But that's not really the point of this film. The point of this film is that Sonny Chiba is a very hard man who likes to bust heads.

Story

Takuma Tsurugi is a tough, mercenary, master of martial arts. When an important business magnate dies, leaving billions to his daughter, the Mafia and Yakuza try to hire Tsurugi to kidnap the daughter. When they refuse to meet his exorbitant price, then try to kill him to conceal their secret plans, he promptly offers his services to protect her. Much ultra-violent martial-arts fighting action, as expected, ensues. This also includes a subplot of a family's bloodfeud with Tsurugi over a disputed debt.

"The terror starts the moment he stops."

Rutger Hauer is one scary mother-fucker!

Paul Walker in my opinion is a little under-rated. Sure, in The Fast and the Furious and it's sequel, he seemed little more than a grinning goofball wigger but when the going got tough a really competent actor seemed to be shining through from below the 'teen-sensation' good looks and trendy clothing.

Running Scared proves this theory true as Walker acts his way straight out the paper bag with an in-your-face, gritty performance which will win him many new fans.

Plot Outline

The film opens in the South American Jungle, a military Huey descending onto the landing pad of a small makeshift jungle encampment. Pretty much the entire cast are introduced as they exit the helicopter, led by a stogie puffing Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger).Arnold meets up with an old army friend Dillon, (Carl Weathers) who leads them on a mission deep into the jungle to supposedly rescue a group of hostages from a force of Guerilla fighters. After shooting the shit out of every person they can find they realise that there's something strange afoot amongst the tall trees of the rainforest. After shooting the shit out of some trees they come to the conclusion that an extra-terrestrial hunter is what's pursuing them through the jungle.After realising that their favourite tactic of shooting the shit out of everything isn't going to work, their numbers quickly dwindle until it's a hardcore back to nature one on one scrap between the eight foot alien Predator and the man who knows no fear, the Governator.

Action Value