Red Scorpion

Comment below is misleading...
The title of the customer's comment is misleading. There is a standard def DVD inside the package and the comment says "no standard def dvd", which is not true.
The customer is rating a product because they don't have a Blu-ray player, but fail to mention they can CERTAINLY play the standard definition DVD inside, which contains all the same special features as the Blu-ray, but in DVD format. The film is a combo pack, and the picture included in the listing clearly shows it also contains a standard definition DVD version inside.

GOOD MOVIE
THE MOVIE RED SCORPION WAS AN INTERESTING AND ENJOYABLE STORY. DOLF LUNDGREN IS BELIEVABLE IN THE RED SCORPION MOVIE. JED

african action/adventure that is probably one of Dolph's best from the 80's...
Action star Dolph Lundgren got his big break playing Russian Ivan Drago in Rocky IV (1985), and he again plays a Russian in his fourth film Red Scorpion (1988), a military adventure set in Africa. Lundgren is Lt. Nikolai Rachenko, a member of "Spetsnaz"(Russian special forces) who is sent undercover to locate and assassinate a resistance leader. The action sequences are generally very well executed and often extreme, as the brute force of modern mechanized armies are unleashed on the native people. The film doesn't dwell on tragedy, taking a mostly surreal approach to the mayhem, and stylizing the violence. Red Scorpion also includes a "spiritual" element, as Rachenko comes to realize how the Soviets have been abusing the people, and becomes enlightened to their native ways.

Events take place in an African nation where forces of the Soviet Union and Cuba, are involved in the subjugation of the...

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