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Movies that feel likeCommando (1985)

John Matrix, the former leader of a special commando strike force that always got the toughest jobs done, is forced back into action when his young daughter is kidnapped. To find her, Matrix has to fight his way through an array of punks, killers, one of his former commandos, and a fully equipped private army. With the help of a feisty stewardess and an old friend, Matrix has only a few hours to overcome his greatest challenge: finding his daughter before she's killed.

If you loved Commando, the closest films we have are Hanna (2011), The Fast and the Furious (2001) and The Rock (1996). All three share Commando's kinetic and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Runaway Train (1985).

🍅 70% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mark L. Lesterkineticepictensewistful
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Hanna
2011 · dir. Joe Wright
🍅 71%★ 6.7action · thriller · adventure

Both land momentum and scale at once

The difference: 26 years apart, and the 2010s show

Raised by her father, an ex-CIA agent, in the wilds of Finland, Hanna's upbringing has been geared to making her the perfect assassin. Sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys across Europe, eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative. As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence.

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The Fast and the Furious
2001 · dir. Rob Cohen
🍅 56%★ 6.8action · crime · thrillerNetflix

Common ground: nostalgic

The difference: Takes it somewhere less epic than Commando does

Dominic Toretto is a Los Angeles street racer suspected of masterminding a series of big-rig hijackings. When undercover cop Brian O'Conner infiltrates Toretto's iconoclastic crew, he falls for Toretto's sister and must choose a side: the gang or the LAPD.

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The Rock
1996 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 76%★ 7.4action · adventure · thrillerPeacock

Two things both keep coming back to: mercenary and terrorism

The difference: Easier on the wistfulness than Commando

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.

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The Spy Who Loved Me
1977 · dir. Lewis Gilbert
🍅 82%★ 7adventure · action · thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on tension more than on action

Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.

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The Shadow's Edge
2025 · dir. Larry Yang
🍅 82%★ 7action · crime · drama

Both are built on the same subject: nostalgic

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Commando does

Macau Police brings the tracking expert police officer out of retirement to help catch a dangerous group of professional thieves.

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Runaway Train
1985 · dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
🍅 84%★ 7.2action · thriller · drama

Kinetic adventure in both cases

A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find themselves on an out-of-control train with a female railway worker while being pursued by the vengeful head of security.

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Robin Hood
2018 · dir. Otto Bathurst
🍅 15%★ 5.4adventure · action · thrillerRent or buy

Wistful thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown.

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Jack the Giant Slayer
2013 · dir. Bryan Singer
🍅 52%★ 6.3fantasy · action · adventure

Action built on scale, twice over

The story of an ancient war that is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants. Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend–and gets the chance to become a legend himself.

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Chernobyl: Abyss
2021 · dir. Danila Kozlovsky
★ 5.2drama · history · actionPrime Video

Adventure with a pulse of wistfulness, in both cases

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.

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🍅 41%★ 5action · adventure · comedyParamount+

Both lean on momentum more than on thriller

The Angels are charged with finding a pair of missing rings that are encoded with the personal information of members of the Witness Protection Program. As informants are killed, the ladies target a rogue agent who might be responsible.

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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
2018 · dir. Andy Serkis
🍅 51%★ 6.5adventure · dramaNetflix

Epic adventure in both cases

A human child raised by wolves, must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well as his own origins.

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The Expendables 3
2014 · dir. Patrick Hughes
🍅 32%★ 6.1action · adventure · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: rescue mission

Barney, Christmas and the rest of the team comes face-to-face with Conrad Stonebanks, who years ago co-founded The Expendables with Barney. Stonebanks subsequently became a ruthless arms trader and someone who Barney was forced to kill… or so he thought. Stonebanks, who eluded death once before, now is making it his mission to end The Expendables -- but Barney has other plans. Barney decides that he has to fight old blood with new blood, and brings in a new era of Expendables team members, recruiting individuals who are younger, faster and more tech-savvy. The latest mission becomes a clash of classic old-school style versus high-tech expertise in the Expendables’ most personal battle yet.

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