Kobra commando
Directed by:
Bruno MatteiCinematography:
Riccardo GrassettiComposer:
Luigi CeccarelliCast:
Reb Brown, Christopher Connelly, Louise Kamsteeg, William Berger, Mike Monty, David Brass, Luciano Pigozzi, Jim Gaines, Michael WelbornVOD (1)
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Two years before the deranged genius of Robowar and Shocking Dark, writer/director Bruno Mattei and co-writers Claudio Fragasso & Rossella Drudi borrowed from Rambo: First Blood Part II, Missing in Action and more to create their own mind-blowing ‘Namsploitation masterpiece: Reb Brown (Uncommon Valor) stars as Sgt. Mike Ransom, a one-man war machine on a screaming-for-vengeance mission against brutal Vietcong, merciless Russians, double-crossing U.S. officers and acres of bullet-blasted Philippines jungle. Christopher Connelly (Raiders of Atlantis), Luciano Pigozzi (All the Colors of the Dark) and Jim Gaines (Island of the Living Dead) co-star in this exploding bamboo gun-tower of “Mattei magic at its finest”... (Severin Films)
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Strike Commando is the first full-fledged Mattei trash flick from the prolific – in terms of both quantity and camp – collaboration of Fragasso-Drudi-Mattei-Gaudenzi, a quartet of trash fantasists and shameless plagiarists of Hollywood hits. The broad field of juvenile war fantasy, reeking of Rambo II, first spread out before video-rental store customers and the filmmakers managed managed to milk it for five more movies. The amount of naïveté, absolute frames and overwrought acting in Strike Commando is reminiscent of the unattainable pinnacle of delirious playing at soldiers, Deadly Prey, though in comparison with the Prior brothers, the Italian shysters had a significantly bigger budget. However, that budget was swallowed up by explosions of straw huts and archival footage of helicopters, so it fortunately couldn’t be put into the acting qualities or the sophistication of the screenplay, which is fascinating with its almost brilliant simplicity and straightforwardness.
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