Commando Ninja

I loved this movie! Brought a huge grin to my face the whole time with the epic 80s cliches coming hard and fast. Even watched the Making Of doc. Definitely recommended if you're an 80s kid.

Yes, that's right this movie is called Commando Ninja. If that sounds good to you then you won't be disappointed. This is mostly a homage to Commando and any number of those Cannon Films Ninja flicks. This also has elements of pretty much every 80's action movie ever made. Growing up in the 80's myself, I thought this was hilarious. This delivers the goods with an overload of testosterone with lots of muscles, guns, babes, extreme violence and of course lots of ninjas. The tone of this is very cheesy (in a good way) and very tongue in cheek. Commando Ninja is on 11 at all times and sometimes borders into the absurd. I did enjoy this a bit and was a crowdfunded film, so I want to thank all the donors to that getting this made. The lead for this is in legitimate action hero shape and is very credible for the part. If you are a fan of 80's action movies, you need to check out Commando Ninja.

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

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.

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.