The Commando

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The Commando

R

2022

1h 33m

Action

Mystery & Thriller

Crime

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In this edge-of-your-seat crime thriller starring Michael Jai White and Mickey Rourke, an elite DEA agent (White) returns home after a failed mission when his family makes an unexpected discovery in their house -- a stash of money worth $3 million. They soon face the danger and threat of a newly released criminal (Rourke) and his crew who will do whatever it takes to retrieve the money -- including kidnap the agent's daughters. Stakes are high and lives are at risk in this head-to-head battle as the agent stops at nothing to protect his family against the money-hungry criminals.

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Glenn Kenny

New York Times

01/12/2022

A spectacularly atrocious, ostensible action thriller, "The Commando" is distinguished by an incompetence that extends even to locations.

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Rene Rodriguez

Variety

01/06/2022

A talky and lethargic home-invasion thriller, The Commando amounts to an inept crime drama stuffed with banal dialogue and irrelevant supporting characters to pad its feature-length running time.

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Leslie Felperin

Guardian

01/04/2022

1/5

The Commando contains a number of egregious implausibilities and cliches.

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Jonathon Wilson

Ready Steady Cut

01/08/2022

1/5

Director Asif Akbar puts a lot of faith in our desire to see James and Johnny finally square off, but I must confess that if I wasn't professionally obligated to sit through a film until the credits, I probably wouldn't have bothered.

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Lisa S

@LadyVet1975 Dec 19

The hollow background sound, the awful script lines to include bad acting was definitely a forgettable experience.

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Anonymous B

@AnonBunnie Sep 10

The acting in this is god awful, a clear running theme in a lot of MJW movies unfortunately.

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Steph B

Mar 17

If I was given the option of cleaning up my local landfill all by myself or have to watch this movie again.. it would be a very hard choice! I noticed all of this director’s movies are extremely bad!!!

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Lisa K

Feb 24

Some of the worst acting I have seen in a while

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MB B

10/10/2023

None of these actors could act their way out of a paper bag

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B D

09/27/2023

Hard to understand why this movie was made I was in a generous mood so have it one star. Perhaps watch for the laughs?

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In this edge-of-your-seat crime thriller starring Michael Jai White and Mickey Rourke, an elite DEA agent (White) returns home after a failed mission when his family makes an unexpected discovery in their house -- a stash of money worth $3 million. They soon face the danger and threat of a newly released criminal (Rourke) and his crew who will do whatever it takes to retrieve the money -- including kidnap the agent's daughters. Stakes are high and lives are at risk in this head-to-head battle as the agent stops at nothing to protect his family against the money-hungry criminals.

Director: Asif Akbar
Producer: Asif Akbar, Elias Axume, Al Bravo, Koji Steven Sakai, Philip Tan
Screenwriter: Koji Steven Sakai, Asif Akbar, Al Bravo
Distributor: Saban Films
Production Co: Little Nalu Pictures, BondIt Media Capital, Premiere Entertainment Group, Al Bravo Films, Buffalo 8 Productions, Avail Entertainment
Rating: R (Some Drug Use|Language Throughout|Strong Violence)
Genre: Action, Mystery & Thriller, Crime
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 7, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 7, 2022
Runtime: 1h 33m

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