The original had two interesting characters that would be harder to find in a bizarre, isolated, sci-fi type nation’s army like North Korea is.
The Cuban Paratroop leader was very cool, and a positive portrayal of elite military commanders, and so was the hunter killer Russian, did this movie have any interesting north Koreans?
The personal antagonist was “Captain Cho”, a minor functionary. Jed and Matt watched as Cho blew their father away, so it got personal.
There was a cameo appearence of a Russian Spetznaz officer, but we only saw him twice.
Mustn’t offend the enemy, you know...