Overview: Taking on the drug lords is impossible. Taking on a country is insane! When prisoner of war Robert McBain (Academy Award winner Christopher Walken, The Deer Hunter) is rescued in the jungles of North Vietnam by a group of Rangers, he expresses his thanks and gratitude.

The leader of the Rangers, Santos (Chick Vennera), takes out a $100 bill, tears it in two, gives half to McBain and says, If the other half of this bill ever finds you, you can pay me back.

Eighteen years later, Santos is killed in Colombia while leading a fight against drug lords and corrupt politicians. His sister, Christina (Maria Conchita Alonso, Predator 2, The Running Man) goes to New York with the other half of the bill and seeks out McBain to enlist his help in overthrowing the Colombian regime.

With the surviving ex-Rangers from his Vietnam rescue, including Michael Ironside (Total Recall, Top Gun) and Steve James (The Exterminator, The Soldier), McBain’s team travels to Colombia to break the power of the drug lords and avenge Santos’ death.

Directed by genre favorite James Glickenhaus (The Exterminator, Shakedown, Slaughter of the Innocents), McBain delivers a macho action fantasy... spectacular mayhem that action audiences expect." (Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times).

Blu-ray Verdict: Simply put, this movie was just bloody awesome! If you liked Commando, this is right up your alley. No, Walken is no Arnie and doesn’t have the screen presence or the one-liners, but the ridiculous, over-the-top action is all there!

In fact, some of it is legitimately quite impressive, not to mention brutal!A rebel woman runs at a tank and drops a grenade down the muzzle. It explodes and they show her hanging off the end of the tank turret, cooking like a piece of chicken that fell through the grill and caught on fire!

This is action you can feel in your gut. It’s well shot and the effects are all practical, unlike the weightless, too-perfect computer-generated stuff of today.

Lots of bad guys get mowed down, but this one pulls no punches in sacrificing plenty of good guys too. Some of the battles are HUGE with hundreds of extras, along with tanks, jets, helicopters, plastic explosives and possibly every gun ever made!

In closing, this was such a fun ride, but I can easily imagine some who will over analyze all the joy out of it! Don’t be one of them! Get your popcorn ready, get comfy in your easy chair and just enjoy it!

Blu-ray Special Features:
Audio Commentary from director James Glickenhaus and film historian Chris Poggiali
All-new remixed 5.1 surround sound created specifically for this release (original 2.0 theatrical stereo mix also included)
Original theatrical trailer

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