Shockingly credible Italian / Filipino action movie from relatively early in the cycle, WARBUS will inevitably suffer from comparison to the jokey film it draws the most inspiration from, STRIPES. Comedy is not an easy genre to export so the Italians responded with two totally straight-faced films involving soldiers armoring up a bus to go on the warpath. Of the two, WAR BUS COMMANDO has slightly more notoriety for starring 1990: THE BRONX WARRIORS lead Mark Gregory in his final role. It is, however, utter garbage and being an Afghanistan-oriented actioner filmed in Italy, is essentially the s…
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