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Watch: Der Commander 1988 123movies, Full Movie Online – A Major leads a group of mercenaries whose mission is to protect a disc full of secrets, located in South Asia..
Plot: 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!
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Flirting with cult status
Average Euro-styled jungle action flick is the third of the trio that was borne of the Anthony Dawson- Lewis Collins mid-80’s partnership, Der Kommander is essentially the same as its predecessors with a few plot tweaks.

Good use of miniatures again, lots (emphasis) of things blowing up, people of SE Asian appearance dressed in military fatigues being catapulted in the air doing somersaults, that sort of a spectacle which you either tolerate or fall asleep watching.

Collins is again wasted in a one dimensional role as the suave kick-ar$e mercenary with the eternal 5 o’clock shadow, whilst the supporting cast though lacking a principal female lead, does have some surprising depth with Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasance, Brett Halsey, Paul Muller, Romano Puppo, Bobby Rhodes, Mike Monty and John Steiner (as well as series regulars Manfred Lehmann & Thomas Danneberg). That’s an impressive cast assembled for a very average jungle war pic, even by Euro-trash standards; had Klaus Kinski returned for this final instalment, the acting chops would’ve been in the cult movie stratosphere. Van Cleef sadly does not look well and so it’s perhaps regrettably no surprise that he died shortly after this film’s theatrical release.

If you’ve seen Codename Wildgeese or Kommando Leopard, then you’ve essentially seen Der Kommander (sans Klaus Kinski of course). Lots of old and borrowed, but nothing new. Would be nice to have these three movies as a box set for an evening of cheesy goodness, especially now that most of the cast have left the mortal coil, all much too soon.

No commanding performances in here sadly
“Der Commander” or “The Commander” is a West German / Italian co-production from 1988 (almost 30 years old) and this one runs for 105 minutes. According to IMDb, it is a German-language film in the original, but I am not too sure about this. Yes the title is German, but the actors who play the main characters are not, so they have been dubbed for sure. Also it is part of as trilogy and the previous film (despite having German titles) are no German-language films either according to IMDb. Anyway, the cast is pretty good here. The title character is played by Lewis Collins and I cannot say I know who that is, but other than him Donald Pleasence from James Bond and Lee Van Cleef (star of epic western films) have lots of screen time too. For the latter, it was one of the final performances of his life and career and he has aged considerably compared to other films you may have seen him in. The director is Antonio Margheriti and the trio who wrote this are also 2 Italians and one German. The latter is Arne Elsholtz, who died recently, and looking at other films from him, this was certainly a very different genre compared to what he usually did. It is a military film that takes place in Asia, so you basically know what to expect. For male audiences, they included one hot female solider, an Asian actually. The story is pretty generic for a military film and sadly, I was not really impressed by the acting or the plot here. Then again, I may be a bit biased as military films are rarely my preferred choice. That’s why I give this one a thumbs down. Only worth checking out for the biggest fans of the genre.

Other Information:

Original Language de
Runtime 1 hr 45 min (105 min) (Norway), 1 hr 44 min (104 min) (Spain), 1 hr 24 min (84 min) (video) (UK)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Action, War
Director Antonio Margheriti
Writer Tito Carpi, Arne Elsholtz, Giacomo Furia
Actors Lewis Collins, Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasence
Country West Germany, Italy
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
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Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
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Negative Format 35 mm
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Printed Film Format 35 mm