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Movie Reviews of Commando
Movie Review: Classic Arnold
Summary: 5 Stars
Arnold Schwarzenegger is Col. John Matrix, recently retired from some sort of military special-ops career (in which he was, of course, the best there was), and now living in a cabin in the hills with his little girl (Alyssa Milano). She'll be crushed if he has to go back into action again, and he promises he won't. But somebody is killing the members of his old unit one by one, and they may be coming for him next.
Sure enough, not long into the film, his daughter has been kidnapped. And the bad guys explain that they'll return her if he'll just perform one teeny-tiny little assassination . . .
That's the setup; the rest of the plot consists primarily of Arnold kicking a$$. That's what you wanted to see, isn't it? If not, skip this film.
But if you like this sort of thing -- as, obviously, I do -- _Commando_ will be one of your favorites (if it isn't already). Would you like to see Arnold 'drive' a sabotaged pickup truck by shoving it down a mountain and hopping in? Disembark from a jet aircraft while it's taking off? Pick up a phone booth while it's got a bad guy in it? Deliver classic lines like 'I'll be back' and 'Trust me'? Do all of the foregoing while whomping the behinds of some unambiguously evil bad guys? This is your movie.
The major villain -- Bennett, played by Vernon Wells -- looks and sounds as though he'd accidentally wandered into the set still in costume from _The Road Warrior_ (in which he played Wez). But you weren't watching this for its gritty realism, were you?
Rae Dawn Chong is in it too, as the 'feisty stewardess' that appears in so many of these films (see Halle Berry in _Executive Decision_ for one of the more recent). She gets a few of the good lines, and she even gets to fire a rocket launcher.
But the show belongs to the Gubernator. This is classic Schwarzenegger.
Movie Review: Commando: An 80's classic! One of the Austrian Oak's best!
Summary: 5 Stars
Commando is such an awesome movie. Sure it's a low budget, 80's cheese-fest, but it's filled with hilarious one liners, and plus, it has AH-NULD (THE greatest action film star ever!), PLUS, a caribbean music and funky saxophone soundtrack! Basically, it's a thin plot film about a retired military colonel whose daughter has been kidnapped, and in order to get her back, the bad guys want Col. Matrix to kill the president of a South American country, so that a former dictator can return to office.
Matrix decides to become a one man army in order to rescure her, and decides to take out whoever gets in his way. Col. Matrix kills approximately 78 people by the end of the movie! Let's not forget that Commando has the funniest intro to a Arnie flick EVER! For example, within the first five minutes, we see Ah-Nuld feeding a fawn, getting ice cream on his face, Ah-Nuld reading a Creem magazine (a music magazine from back then), Ah-Nuld picking up his daughter and shaking her, and Ah-Nuld carrying a huge tree trunk on his shoulder. Heck, the whole movie is HILARIOUS!
If this review doesn't make the film seem interesting to you yet, just ask yourself: What could be better than seeing one of the, IF NOT THE, greatest action film stars ever jumping from a moving airplane, overturning a porsche because he doesn't have a car to drive, swinging onto a huge phone booth from the second story floor at a mall in order to catch a bad guy, over turning a huge phone booth, stealing more ammo than he'll probably ever need, hanging a bad guy over a cliff with one arm, ripping a seat out of a car, taking out the bad guys with no remorse, managing to not be hit by 2000+ bullets fired at him in a period of three minutes, and killing entire armies without a scratch, WHILE saying hilarious, yet classic one liners?
"Commando" is a classic!
Movie Review: The standard for action films
Summary: 5 Stars
Commando does for action movies in the 1980's what The Dirty Dozen did for the same genre in the 1960's. It totally reinvented it. First of all, you can't take it seriously like so many critics have, because it's so hilariously absurd. The bad guys, and I like to refer to them as "the bad guys" since they are perfect comic book material, kidnap Schwarzenegger's daughter and he goes to get her back. In the process he shoots about 500 guys all by himself and comes out with a single shrapnel wound and his daughter. Lots of machine guns, grenades, stabbings, tons of shooting, stuff blowing up constantly every couple minutes - all that's here in rapid fire progression, so there is NEVER one dull minute. Schwarzenegger also delivers some terrific one-liners, as other viewers have mentioned. One of the really great things about Commando is the actors. While not an actor's movie, like JFK or Hoffa, the actors really do a good job. Dan Hedaya is sadistically inept - probably more inept than the bad guys in Last Action Hero. The first four or five that he kills are the most stumbling, fumbling serious looking villains I've seen on film.
Other attractions: Arnie gets wiped out by a car while running through a mall parking lot and gets back up via his momentum and contiunues running! Arnie jumps out of an airplane into a swamp while in air! Arnie punches the, I guess, dashboard of an airplane - and makes it magically lift up in time to clear a boat after an uzi battle! Arnie also swings from the rafters of a shopping mall like Tarzan with somebody shooting at him. Then he chases the guy into a phone booth, picks it up, and press slams it!
If you're an action film fan, there is NO going wrong with Commando - it will satisfy the hardest to satisfy for action.
Movie Review: An Action Genre Masterpiece
Summary: 5 Stars
Commando is likely the "magnum opus" of the 80s action genre.
The plot in less than 20 words: latino dictator and henchmen kidnap the daughter of Col. Matrix: he rescues her and kills them in very creative ways.
The action is pumping with no diversions into useless character development, the real nemesis of true action aficionados.
Although the beginning gives you the impression that Matrix (Arnold, in excellent shape)is a man of peace (the infamous deer feeding scene) immediately we are relieved to see him shooting, maiming and killing his way out of trouble.
Arnie's sidekick Cindy (an impeccable hostess), apart from being a master hydroplane pilot and skillful in bazooka-shooting, provides comic relief.
Bennett, a most memorable villain, entertains us with his Australian accent, chain mail vest, Hamlet-like discourses on revenge and blunt violence.
Sully futhermore teaches us the lost art of courting women and flying (that is from a cliff, his final end by the hands of Col Matrix).
Impalements, broken necks, chopped limbs, massive shootouts are abundant, entertaining us as the body count rapidly reaches triple figures.
The ending is in fact possibly the bloodiest in movie history: nameless latino soldiers are systematically mowed down by Arnie's arsenal, a tribute to the "one man army" cinematic school.
All in all, an amazing adventure for true 80s connoisseurs, a masterful and touching epic on how getting in between a father-daughter relationship can result in a very high mortality rate.
Movie Review: AN OLD FAVORITE! ACTION!
Summary: 5 Stars
Don't know what else to say but again a fast action moving, colorful, tender, humorous and entertaining movie.
Lots of good scuplted muscle [for the ladies] action and blow-em up [for the gents]. Humor for everyone. Colonel John Matrix - Like - Don't mess with my family.
It seems that all of the men of his former squad are being methodically murdered. Next his daughter is targeted as a hostage. Well that didn't go over well. The messenger was one less man to deal with.
The ride cross-country in a truck with no brakes had a lot of eye appeal. then the explosion. a big fire-ball.
Yup! snap the guys neck and jump off the plane to pursue the guy in the yellow [was that a car?] Our fiesty stewardess seems determined to thwart John's pursuit of the weasel.
Wow! what a collection of armory they picked up [some fancy shopping]. Wouldn't you know she would get it backwards. But came to the rescue anyway.
[She could fly a plane?]
Well, ol' John wasn't taking any guff from the Big Weasel and blew his army to smithereens [way to go, guy] house took some damage too. Yup! the letting off of steam was a neat effect.
[grin] And what a mess he left for his friend to clean up. Details, details.
Greatly Recommended - will have to watch again sometime in the future! Another keeper.