The Commando

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The Commando

R

2022

1h 28m

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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iordanis k

@Jordan1973 Jan 1

It’s hard to believe an actor like Mickey Rourke ended up in this film. It runs on cheap tricks, has no real ideas, and doesn’t even work as fun trash. When it’s over, you’re left staring at the screen, wondering what just happened — and not in a good way.

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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

02/24/2025

Some of the worst acting I have seen in a while

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MB B

@Moneypenny 10/10/2023

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

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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 28m

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