Commando (DVD)

Director: Mark L. Lester Producer: Joel Silver Writers: Jeph Loeb, Matthew Weisman, Steven E, De Souza Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Veernon Well, Dan Hedaya, James Olson, David Kelly, Alyssa Milano and Bill Duke Released in late 1985 this hour and a half all action movie revolves around the personal life of an ex- American special forces soldier who simply wants an easy life… only certain people wont allow this. *BRIEF PLOT ...
...retired special forces soldier who is living in the middle of no where with his daughter Jenny, (played by Alyssa Milano) Unfortunately for Matrix his quiet little retirement is about to be shattered as his old unit are being eliminated by unknown forces… putting Matrix and his daughter in danger, involving a man named Bennett, an old friend from his past, (played by Vernon Wells). Jenny is kidnapped on the orders of a strange warlord, (played ...

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Commando was first released in the UK in 1986, and was directed by Mark L Lester, and written by Jeph Loeb & Matthew Weisman. Commando is an action / thriller movie, and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead role. Among the other stars in the movie are a young Alyssa Milano, and also Rae Dawn Chong. The movie has a 18 certificate rating. Colonel John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a retired special forces commando, living peacefully with his ...
...Californian mountains. Matrixs' tranquile life is turned upside down however, when his daughter is kidnapped and held captive by a former special forces colleague, who is now working for an exiled Latin American dictator named Arius (Dan Hedaya). In order to save his daughter's life, Matrix must assassinate the leader of the Arius's home country, so that he can reinstate himself as the country's new leader. Matrix evades his captors, and manages ...

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...The 'special' features offered with Commando ( the trailer and, erm that it) add to the final paradox of this movie. Pay £5 for something that's cheap and tacky but so incredibly entertaining.. if its you're kind of thing of course… Otherwise steer clear of it like the plague.. ...

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...Let's cut to the chase. Commando is not a high brow movie by any stretch of the imagination. Schwarzenegger only shines during the action sequences when he's mowing down legions of punks and scumbags. The main villain, Bennett, is the campest hard man villain I've ever seen in an action movie (the leather trousers and Village People 'tache don't help), but like a lot of Schwarzenegger's films from the 80s, that's part of the enjoyment. As Arnie's ...
...enjoys complicated plot twists, weird camera angles, foreign language/subtitled films or maybe even some "worthy" storyline then Commando is not for you. If you like the idea of an ex-bodybuilder actor with a crap accent blowing the bejesus out of all and sundry, then Commando is most definitely for you. ...

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...was Red Sonja to make Commando in the same year, 1985. This time, the actor has a bit more of a speaking part, and we actually find out the big man can speak the language, quite well in fact, even enough to add a little humour into the proceedings. Commando was the first of Arnie's roles to combine a bit of humour with all out action, and was to become a trademark of many of his films. The Plot Retired Special Forces Colonel John Matrix has left ...
...with his daughter Jenny. Not so muc luck. Members of Matrix's former unit are being killed off, and one of them, Bennett, is responsible in part. Working for a man named Arius, a military rebel leading a coup in his own country, Bennett kidnaps Jenny and threatens to kill her unless Matrix performs an assassination for Arius. Matrix agrees, getting on a plane with one of Bennett's men to go do the job. He escapes, killing his guard and jumping out, ...

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...demise of the heroes enemies. Commando needs a plot like a firecracker needs to be silent to work but I'll explain it nonetheless. John Matrix ( Schwarzenegger ) a retired super soldier, who's seemingly put his days of mass slaughter for his countries freedom behind him, lives in peace with his young daughter Jenny. Unfortuntely a patriots job is never done when scum lurks at every corner. A bunch of villians capture the one thing keeping him from ...
...some sort of dark magic, commando manages to remain a classic for its action scenes and our memories forgive every sin it commits even relishing them. Once Matrix starts the pain, it never stops. Eventually an entire army of nameless foes fall prey to thousands of rounds of ammunition. Does "Ah-nuld" get a scratch, does he hell. Everything around him gets blown to hell, including countless innocent flower pots and vases. Its wrong to love such things ...

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...nights. It was, of course, Commando - the film me & Knolly had been waiting for for weeks on end. It was in too, the little red 'film on loan' tag that was usually slotted onto your movie of choice was nowhere to be seen - this was it, we were finally gonna see Commando. And what a wonderful, adolescence-defining 90 minutes it turned out to be. What joy, what entertainment - an instant classic, surely? To those two 12yr old shit-kickers from the ...
...that a recent viewing of Commando put me in. Back then of course it was nothing short of genius, a cinematic tour de force, a gripping, wholly realistic work of art. Nowadays though Commando offers a completely different range of simple pleasures. It's cheesy, over-the-top, utterly one-dimensional and if truth be known it's terribly, terribly bad but we've got to the point now where the film is so old and so bad that it's actually starting to look ...

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...role of an unstoppable, fearless, commando as if it was made for him, dutifully wiping out all that comes before him in a manner of amusing ways. The concluding scenes, in particular, show an unscathed Arnold taking out an entire army of military equipped, war hardened, villains like a tidal wave overwhelming a helpless fishing boat. However, what really sets this film apart from the rest of Arnie’s early action adventures, is the relentless, ...
...facing a similar testosterone charged commando in a fight to the death situation, Schwarznegger merely comments ‘I eat green berets for breakfast’. This film is ideal for letting off some steam at the end of the working day. Therefore, the last word on this should go to the man himself. After sending a boiling hot water pipe through the chest of his chief adversary, Schwarznegger laughs ‘let off some steam, Bennett’!!! Cast ...

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This film is just a pleasure because it is stereotypical Arnie, nothing can touch him, he looks fantastic(I think he's in the guinness book of records for having the most perfectly formed body ever), and the scene when he just wrenches the phone boothe out of the floor with the guy in it is priceless. It was never meant to be the best acted film in the world or the funniest but for pure testosterone fueled fun with classic Arnie you can't beat it....add that to the caribbean style music and 80s tinge and you might understand why I gave it 5 stars. ...

philosophy0711 18.07.2007
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...Matrix is a retired army commando that just wants to live his life in peace with his daughter which is the only thing cares about, this all changes when he forced back into action when his daughter(Jenny- Alyssa Milano) is kidnapped. He has eleven hours to find out were his daughter is and save her with a little help from a new friend(Cindy- Rae Dawn Chong) he meets on the way. With this the full on non stop destruction and action begins this film ...
...end with Bennett which again is hilarious. In the end sequence i even started to count how many matrix kills i got up to 30 and had enough if you like action, Arny or just our cheese i seriously recommend this film for you. Favorite funny part. Matrix tells one of bennette's cronies (Sully) that he likes him and he will kill him last until he catches up to him, heres the quote 'Matrix: Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last? Sully: ...

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...kill each of Matrix' former Commando friends, one of which is cunningly disguised as a car salesman. We are even led to believe that Bennet is killed so that an old friend of Matrix', General Kirby, will attempt to contact him and reveal his location. Arius is succesful and kidnaps Matrix' daughter Jenny in a ploy to force Matrix to do his bidding and kill President Velasquez, the new President of Val Verde. The irony of the story is shown in the ...
...wisecracks and bloodshed that makes Commando so memorable. One of the most hilarious moments in the movie takes a full 20 minutes to unfold. Aftert telling Sully, one of Arius' cronies, that he likes him and thusly he will save him til last to kill, Sully finds himself being dangled over a cliff by Matrix. When Matrix reminds him that he promised to kill him last, Sully agrees in desperation as Matrix drops the classic line... "I lied". This movie ...

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...an Arnold Schwarzenegger fan Commando is one of my best Arnie films. Its totally no stop action from start to finish and more bullets flying from guns than Rambo. The Action begins when Matrix's ( Arnies ) daughter is kidnapped and has to race against the clock, jumping from planes,swinging like tarzan in the same shopping mall used in Terminator 2 ,racing porsche 911's and shooting down hundreds of soliders with many jazzy guns including a juicy ...
...brain dead action film but Commando really does work and is very enjoyble. The only disadvantage part in Commando is there was never a follow up "Commando 2" maybe The Terminator saga was more popular. Commando was released back in 1985 and in my opinon has yet to be beaten for shoot em up action (don't think it will) The acting is quite good given the fact that its not Arnold's Strongest point. I rate this film 9/10 Arnie at his very best and on ...

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Commando is one for the die hard Arnie fan. Few others will truly appreciate the the gloriously cheesey, tongue in cheek, unashamed violence that characterised the Governators early career. Thats not to undersell Commando- it is without doubt a classic film. The plot is simplistic- Arnie is a retired special forces colonel who is blackmailed into taking out a small country's president by a political rival in exchange for his daughters life. Naturally ...
...everyone who is even vaguely connected with the plot, and anyone else who gets in his way. The stereotypical film critic will tell you that the plot is childlike, the direction flawed, the dialogue neanderthal and the acting laughable. However, Schwarzenegger's strengths are not in his acting ability, but in his on-screen charisma and the fact that he obviously doesnt take himself too seriously. Its a gem as long as you bare this in mind. Oh and ...

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Personally this is my favourite Schwarzenegger film there is. Sure it doesn't have the production values or budget of later films like Terminator 2, but to be honest it does better with out them. Don't go watching this film expecting it to be sensible or believable, because it really isn't. What this film is, is concentrated, canned entertainment. It has, probably the best one liners ever and in abundance. Only Arnie could pull them off and it's ...
...too. The villain, Bennet is ludicrously camp in his chain mail tank top. A young Alyssa Milano (of "Charmed" fame) plays Arnie's daughter is one to look out for too. This film hits everything it sets out to do. "Let off some steam", but leave it to Arnie to run round someone else's garden acting like a one-man army, he's great at it! You'll be laughing at it for weeks just thinking about it. The plot is pretty simplistic, but lets face it thats ...

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I've been a big fan of the big man for many years, and i have to admit that Comando was always one of my favourites. With Arnold never about to win any acting awards ir's pretty easy to overlook the wonderfully entertaining performances from the "bad guys" in thisd film. You have to have a certain something to be able to pull off lines like "You promised you were going to kill me last" or "im not gonna shoot you between the eyes John, im gonna shoot ...
...peak fitness and possibly his most violent, the full uncut glory of the garden tool shed scene is a delight to those of us who remeber it. Yes it really is all here on this edition. summing up the film then, i'd say that if you love action films and don't mind ignoring a few of the lesser details (like why would the countdown on his watch beep every second, how does the porsche keep repairing itself?) it is an incredibly lavish romp of explododing ...

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