WTF Wednesday Review: COMMANDO SQUAD
In the explosive 1987 action cult classic Commando Squad, a team of renegade ex–special forces operatives are brought out of retirement for one final mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA agent deep behind enemy lines in Central America. Led by battle-hardened war hero Major Jack Steele (played with pure 80s grit by Richard Young), the squad must face a ruthless drug lord, a corrupt military regime, and a jungle that eats soldiers alive.
Each member of the team brings their own brand of mayhem: a knife-throwing demolitions expert, a wisecracking sniper with a death wish, a musclebound mechanic who solves problems with dynamite, and a no-nonsense female operative who’s tougher than all of them combined. Together, they blast, brawl, and banter their way through explosions, double-crosses, and more slow-motion gunfights than the Geneva Convention allows.
Packed with machine guns, one-liners, and mullets of steel, Commando Squad is a high-octane celebration of 80s excess — the kind of movie where every bullet finds its target, every explosion has meaning, and every mission ends with a freeze-frame and a power chord.