ah and mcbain the character name be immortalize and forever ridicule by the simpson but it will also always to me personally and at least remain the name and title of a tremendously entertaining and outrageously violent early 90 action flick while direct by the cool dude who bring u the exterminator and star two of the most ultimately badass b movie heroes christopher walken and michael ironside ( the latter with a cute little macho ponytail ) . i guess mcbain will largely have to be label a a guilty pleasure and because there no way i can convince anyone this be an intellectual motion picture . the film be unimaginably preposterous ( most action hero take on a small gangster posse mcbain take on an entire country ) and yet take itself way too seriously . the script be a non stop and incoherent spitfire of clichéd situation and nonsensical twist and compulsory sentimental interlude and grotesquely stag action sequence and utterly implausible character drawing . it a totally delirious movie while i love it . vietnam pow mcbain life be save by fellow soldier roberto santos on the very last day of the war . they each keep half a dollar note a a symbol that mcbain be in santos debt . eighteen year later and santos be a spirited rebel lead the revolution against the corrupt president of his home country columbia . santos initial attempt to take over the power fails and he publicly execute on el presidente balcony . his sister travel to new york with the dollar note and turn to mcbain for financial assistance and manpower . mcbain and his former vietnam buddy and who all coincidentally happen to be feed up with the injustice in this world and charter themselves a miserable little plane and fly to columbia to open a gigantic can of whoop as . okay and let not fool each other here . the fact youre read a user comment on mcbain already indicate that you have some sort of interest for low budget b movie action . one of my fellow reviewer spend quite some time compose a list contain all the main stupidity and insensible moment of mcbain . this list be totally accurate and i can only concur with it . heck and i could even add some more senseless sequence to that list ( like the preposterous and needless heroic self sacrifice of a soldier who doesn not even have any affinity with the goal of the mission and the rest of mcbain squad ) and but what the point . you definitely know not to expect a 100 % coherent and plausible masterpiece . we know from beforehand this will be a silly and exaggeratedly flamboyant movie and and it maybe even the exact reason why we want to check it out . this be a terrifically outrageous and exciting movie about a bunch of former vietnam buddy turn into mercenary and declare war against the corrupt columbian president and the national drug cartel . please do not expect another apocalypse now . this particular motion picture rely on the ruff n tuff act performance of the macho lead and a whole lot of explosion and gunfight and last but not least a fantastic soundtrack in which joan baez sing a cover of brother in arm .