DVD review: Samurai Commando (2005)

To defeat the past, they had to take back the military of the future!

As movie pitches go, the concept of time-travelling samurai is a pretty engaging one. On a purely instinctual level, the idea of combining the bushido blades of Kurosawa with a modern war movie tickles the cult movie taste buds in all the right ways.

Sadly, this remake of Sengoku jieitai, the 1979 Sonny Chiba movie released in the west as GI Samurai (or Time Slip or Time Wars depending on which ex-rental VHS you found), ultimately fumbles the notion and ends up being a frustrating experience...