# Red Scorpion (1988)

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**Runtime**: 105 min
**Genres**: Adventure, Action, War
**Directed by**: Joseph Zito
**Written by**: Arne Olsen, Jack Abramoff, Robert Abramoff
**Starring**: Dolph Lundgren, M. Emmet Walsh, Al White, T. P. McKenna, Carmen Argenziano, Alex Colon

> *They think they control him. Think again.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You're a Spetsnaz agent in Angola, tasked to crush anti-communist forces. But the brutal reality of Soviet expansionism confronts you. The mission shifts.

Zito’s film arrived late to the ideological battles of the 1980s, but its visceral thrills linger.

**Mood tags**: raw

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