Above the War
1989Movie1 h 35 min
42
WeakGoodWatch score42
WeakGoodWatch scoreSummary
Somewhere in North Vietnam, an American base is overrun by V.C. and a golden Buddha statue is stolen. The American high command won't have this and sends in an elite force of goof-offs to recover the item.
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
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Audiences 45GoodWatch 43
IMDb4.5
Running time
1 h 35 min
Shorter than most action movies, −13 min on the typical 108
typical 10895Half of all action movies run 96–127 min.
Released
1989
January 1, 1989
37 years ago
Genres
ActionWarLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
Japan
Philippines
and 4 more29 people
- Romano KristoffTop
- MWMichael WelbornKio
- JGJeff GriffithFish
- Yasuaki KurataCook
- Shinya OnoGeneral Kom
- Leo GamboaCommander Thieu
- Richard HarrisonGeneral O'Connor
- EFEvie FenderLieutenant Jhons
- ASAdrian SmithBoy
- FKFrancis KeroneGeneral Murphy
- MMMike MontyGeneral Stark
- GSGeorge SoethGeneral Hamilton
- RDRobert DennyGeneral Benders
- CCCurtis CarterGeneral Davis
- PAPat AndrewGeneral 1
- ODOscar DanielsGeneral 2
- FLFritz LenhartzGeneral 3
- JHJorge HolgateGeneral 4
- Daniel GardnerGeneral 5
- RKRussell KoppenGeneral 6
- MVMike VillarealSok
- KBKevin BlancoGuen
- SKSmiley KumeFront Line Officer
- JDJohn DennyKovitch
Directing · 1
- Ken Watanabe Director, Screenplay
Production · 1
- Dick Kajiwara Executive Producer
Editing · 1
- Boy Cuenco Editor
Sound · 4
- Akira Ishiguro Music
- Sugiyama Tom Music
- Tokuo Inoue Music
- Atsuo Katayama Music
Other crew · 2
- Stanley Iwaki Cinematography
- Jun Pereira Cinematography
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