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The Commander
56%
Movie
1h 45m
AI Analysis
The Commander (1988) — AI movie analysis
WatchMind AI generated this AI analysis of The Commander (1988) — a movie tagged as Action and War with epic moods and fast-paced pacing.
Story & themes: Lewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast is unusually good including Lee Van Cleef, Brett Halsey (Cop Game), Romano Puppo (Robowar), Mike Monty (Raiders of Atlantis), Bobby Rhodes (The Great Alligator), etc. Anyway, Van Cleef has Collins go on some random mission… Our models also surface themes such as ai and war from synopsis and genre signals.
Watch context: Best suited for general audiences. Expect fast-paced storytelling (~105 min).
Community signal: TMDb members rate The Commander 56% (19 votes) — mixed but watchable scores for this movie.
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TMDb audience score
56%
from 19 TMDb votes
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Synopsis
Lewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast is unusually good including Lee Van Cleef, Brett Halsey (Cop Game), Romano Puppo (Robowar), Mike Monty (Raiders of Atlantis), Bobby Rhodes (The Great Alligator), etc. Anyway, Van Cleef has Collins go on some random mission to locate a disc with all sorts of valuable crazy intelligence data on it. It just happens that Donald Pleasence, a random government official, hires another mercenary-for-hire Manfred Lehman to tag along and make sure the data ends up in the right hands. Van Cleef isn't taking any chances, and since he is crooked and murders Collins's other bosses quickly, he places Romano Puppo in the group as well to make sure the operation runs smoothly. Collins may not be too expressive but at least he seems to figure out quickly who's out to get him, so the mission continues with lots of double-crosses, twists and turns, and of course lots of explosions!
Quick facts
- Type
- Movie
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- 1988-04-28
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- TMDB rating
- 5.6
- TMDB ID
- 154397
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What is The Commander about?
Lewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast is unusually good including Lee Van Cleef, Brett Halsey (Cop Game), Romano Puppo (Robowar), Mike Monty... This is the official synopsis available via TMDb community metadata.
Is there an AI analysis for The Commander?
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How long is the movie The Commander?
The official runtime for The Commander is approximately 105 minutes.
Cast & crew
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Directors & writers
Cast
Lewis Collins
Major Colby
Lee Van Cleef
Col. Mazzarini
Donald Pleasence
Henry Carlson
Brett Halsey
McPherson
Manfred Lehmann
Mason / Hiccock
Bobby Rhodes
Kongo Klaus
John Steiner
Duclaud
Romano Puppo
Angelo
Thomas Danneberg
Gustafson
Christian Brückner
Frank Williams
Frank Glaubrecht
Lennox
Anita Lochner
Mrs. Mason
- W
Wolfgang Kühne
Krüger
Paul Müller
Carbalo
Antonio Cantafora
Nick De Carlo
- D
David Brass
One of Dong's soldiers (uncredited)
Chat Silayan
Ling
- M
Mike Monty
Stone
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