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| Contributor | Dan Hedaya, Rae Dawn Chong, James Olson, Michael Delano, Vernon Wells, Mark L. Lester, David Patrick Kelly, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bill Duke, Steven E. de Souza, Sharon Wyatt, Bob Minor, Jeph Loeb, Matthew Weisman, Alyssa Milano, Drew Snyder See more |
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong. When his daughter is kidnapped, a retired special agent resumes his former duties with a vengeance. 1985/color/90 min/R.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.01 Ounces
- Item model number : 2241422
- Director : Mark L. Lester
- Media Format : AC-3, Blu-ray, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled
- Run time : 1 hour and 30 minutes
- Release date : April 15, 2008
- Actors : Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, James Olson
- Dubbed: : Spanish, French
- Subtitles: : Spanish, French
- Language : English (DTS 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
- Studio : 20th Century Fox
- ASIN : B000K0YLM8
- Writers : Jeph Loeb, Matthew Weisman, Steven E. de Souza
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Unfortunately, no one can actually tell you what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2011
Let me just get one thing out of the way first...if you take this film seriously then you are COMPLETELY missing the point.Between Terminator and Predator big Arn made another one-word tough-guy action film that delivered what it promised and then some. Commando is almost tailor-made for Arnie's style of over-the-top action. In fact, I wouldn't say that this film goes over-the-top as much as I would say it launches into the stratosphere, powered by utterly implausible action, corny-as-hell one-liners, a ludicrous plot, and the campiest, least-threatening villain in movie history.Arnie plays John Matrix (yeah, you really did read that correctly) an East-German defector and retired Special Forces Operative (at the age of 37!) who only wishes to live a life of peace with his daughter Chenny in a cozy cabin on Mount Baldy, California (the kind of place you'd expect Larry David to live). Trouble arises when Cooke (the incredible stoic Bill Duke) an emotionless hitman, starts knocking off Matrix's former comrades. It's all just a ruse to lure him out of hiding and snatch his daughter, a plan 'masterminded' by Bennett, Freddie Mercury's twin brother and the man Matrix kicked out of his unit because 'he enjoyed killing a little too much'.Matrix's mission is to fly out to Val Verde and kill the democratically elected President that he himself helped to install after overthrowing Arius (Dan Heydaya) a brutal dictator. With Chenny being used as blackmail, Matrix has no option but to go along with the plot. But he'll be back sooner than you think as he's the kind of guy who just exits a plane during mid-take-off. After dragging Cindy, an easily excitable flight-attendant (Rae Dawn Chong), along for the ride Matrix pummels his way through Bennett's henchmen and Arius' piss-ant soldiers one by one, hoping to find Chenny before the plane lands in Val Verde.There's little in this film that makes sense (such as how could a brutal dictator be exiled to an island just a few minutes of the California coast and the Pentagon NOT know about it? and Why is every one of Arius' piss-ant soldiers the same man in a hat with a fake mustache and gun?) but I'll be damned if it's not entertaining. Almost everything Bennett says is a one-liner for the ages. And don't get me started on the sub-text! He basically kidnaps Chenny (and does the job for free) because he's jealous of her. And if you just listen to his hysterical final confrontation with Matrix, and turn your head away from the screen...tell me that DOESN'T sound like a man-on-man love scene. It honestly would not surprise me if footage of Bennett was played on a constant loop on giant screens in gay night-clubs.James Horner's score is also utterly brilliant, almost never stopping from start to finish, thundering the action along with sharp, punchy strings, eccentric saxophones, and upbeat, funky steel drums. This is truly one of Horner's best efforts, forget Braveheart or Titanic and hunt down the Commando score CD.Mark L. Lester's career sort of withered away after the 80s, but this movie is certainly his crowning achievement and helped solidify Arnie's reputation as an endlessly likeable, bigger-than-life movie star. There have been talks of a remake directed by David Ayer and starring Sam Worthington (the names attached at the time of writing). They want to make it more gritty and serious apparently. Are you kidding me? Making Commando more gritty and serious is like adding ketchup to custard in order to make it 'more of a dinner'. It just won't work. And besides, 20th Century Fox virtually remade Commando in 2007 with the dull John Cena flick The Marine (they really stretched their imagination when they came up with THAT title), further proving that a remake is a stupid idea.The Blu Ray looks above average in 1080p 1.85:1. It was one of the first Blu Rays Fox released and I wish they put a bit more effort into it (it doesn't even feature the Director's Cut, which which came out on DVD at the same time. The DTS HD-MA soundtrack highlights some of the more dated elements of the sound design (plain old Dolby Stereo A) but is otherwise passable. There are no extras.
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I m an Arnold fan big time, his sci-fi and action films are some of the best. His bigger than life persona just fit. He knows how to entertain people in his movies and he is believable in the roles. Watching this film was a delight from start to finish. Excellent film!!
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 3, 2014
Long before DOOM changed the videogaming world by providing us with the image of a crazed soldier mowing down legions of hell-sent demon spawns with a chaingun, Arnold Schwarzenegger did just that in COMMANDO, arguably the greatest of all the "one man army" movies of the 1980s. How did this bloody gem come into being? Well, to this day I can almost imagine some demented screenwriter hacking away at a typewriter in a smoke-filled room, muttering: "I've slashed the plot...thrown out all sense of realism...reduced the dialogue to a series of one-liners...WHAT MORE CAN I DO?"
What more, indeed?
COMMANDO is the story of John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a retired special ops guy who evidently spends 23 hours a day in a weight room when he's not playing single daddy to his daughter, played by a pre-tween Alyssa Milano. Everything's hunky-dory in Matrix's remote cabin until a platoon of bad guys shows up, kidnaps his daughter, and try to blackmail Matrix into one last job -- the assassination of some banana republic el presidente. Unfortunately for the bad guys -- played with tremendous relish by such staples of 80s films as Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, David Patrick Kelly and Bill Duke -- Matrix has no intention of killing el presidente. Instead, he wants to kill all of them, and for the next 90 odd minutes that's precisely what he does, in between forcing the ubiquitous Rae Dawn Chong to serve as his unwilling assistant, throwing out barbaric one-liners over the smoking corpses of his victims, and pausing momentarily to check his watch. Notice I didn't say "pause to reload" because, damn it, not only does Matrix "eat Green Berets for breakfast," he's also pretty much immune to mortal conundrums which would present us with difficulty -- you know, things like bullets and gravity and stuff. Watching this movie gives one the strange masculine sense of satisfaction which occurs when you explode a frog with a firecracker or feed a two-by-four into a circular saw. It's simply the pleasure of mindless destruction, set to a cheesily wonderful 80s soundtrack.
The moral lessons of COMMANDO are those of the decade that spawned it, to wit: might makes right, bullets only hit bad guys, and there is no problem with a machine gun, high explosives and a HUGE killing knife cannot solve. As for the violence, it's a character in itself and makes up for the paper-thin plot and utter lack of any kind of believeability. It took Jason Voorhees ten or twelve hockey-mask wearing sequels to do what Ah-nold does here in under two hours. From the smug blackmailer who gets a bullet between the eyes for daring to say to Matrix, "So you have to do what we want, right?" (answer: "Wrong.") to the pint-sized kidnapper who gets hurled off a cliff after being humiliated via the classic line, "Remember when I told you I was going to kill you last? I LIED!", to the unfortunate mercenary who gets his scalp sawed off with a gardening tool, this movie is a fellowship of death, right up until the moment he impales the Gay Pirate on a steam boiler (after electrocuting him) and barks, "Let off some steam, Bennett!"
Army? We don't need no stinking Army. We've got JOHN MATRIX.
It must be said that everything about this movie is awseomely bad, and the worse the movie gets, the awesome-er it becomes. Arnold, fresh of triumphs in CONAN and TERMINATOR, is near his cigar-chewing, throat-slitting, single-entendre-spewing best here. So is Vernon Wells, the baddie from THE ROAD WARRIOR who has the misfortune to have to fight a bare-chested Arnold while wearing a tight chain mail shirt that serves mainly to remind the audience that his workout routine probably included lifting plates of donuts off the craft services table in between slugs of Foster's. (What was Dan Hedaya thinking, taking on mercenaries like Wells and Duke, so clearly in need of a Stairmaster? And while we're at it, how did hiring the 5'4" of fury that is David Patrick Kelly seem like a good idea?) Hell, even Bill Paxton gets in on the fun, though it must be said (ahem) that he doesn't actually get to kill anybody.
The 80s are an easy decade to mock The fashions were bad, the hairstyles appalling, and a lot of the pop music made you want to slam an ice-pick through your eardrums. On the other hand, and possibly because of this, such a slew of amazingly good, totally irresponsible and uber-violent films has seldom been unleashed by Hollywood like so many slavering hell-hounds. Among the best of these? COMMANDO, a movie that scientifically proves that good will not only triumph over evil, it will pop a 5.56 mm slug through its forehead and then make fun of it as it twitches.
What more, indeed?
COMMANDO is the story of John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a retired special ops guy who evidently spends 23 hours a day in a weight room when he's not playing single daddy to his daughter, played by a pre-tween Alyssa Milano. Everything's hunky-dory in Matrix's remote cabin until a platoon of bad guys shows up, kidnaps his daughter, and try to blackmail Matrix into one last job -- the assassination of some banana republic el presidente. Unfortunately for the bad guys -- played with tremendous relish by such staples of 80s films as Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, David Patrick Kelly and Bill Duke -- Matrix has no intention of killing el presidente. Instead, he wants to kill all of them, and for the next 90 odd minutes that's precisely what he does, in between forcing the ubiquitous Rae Dawn Chong to serve as his unwilling assistant, throwing out barbaric one-liners over the smoking corpses of his victims, and pausing momentarily to check his watch. Notice I didn't say "pause to reload" because, damn it, not only does Matrix "eat Green Berets for breakfast," he's also pretty much immune to mortal conundrums which would present us with difficulty -- you know, things like bullets and gravity and stuff. Watching this movie gives one the strange masculine sense of satisfaction which occurs when you explode a frog with a firecracker or feed a two-by-four into a circular saw. It's simply the pleasure of mindless destruction, set to a cheesily wonderful 80s soundtrack.
The moral lessons of COMMANDO are those of the decade that spawned it, to wit: might makes right, bullets only hit bad guys, and there is no problem with a machine gun, high explosives and a HUGE killing knife cannot solve. As for the violence, it's a character in itself and makes up for the paper-thin plot and utter lack of any kind of believeability. It took Jason Voorhees ten or twelve hockey-mask wearing sequels to do what Ah-nold does here in under two hours. From the smug blackmailer who gets a bullet between the eyes for daring to say to Matrix, "So you have to do what we want, right?" (answer: "Wrong.") to the pint-sized kidnapper who gets hurled off a cliff after being humiliated via the classic line, "Remember when I told you I was going to kill you last? I LIED!", to the unfortunate mercenary who gets his scalp sawed off with a gardening tool, this movie is a fellowship of death, right up until the moment he impales the Gay Pirate on a steam boiler (after electrocuting him) and barks, "Let off some steam, Bennett!"
Army? We don't need no stinking Army. We've got JOHN MATRIX.
It must be said that everything about this movie is awseomely bad, and the worse the movie gets, the awesome-er it becomes. Arnold, fresh of triumphs in CONAN and TERMINATOR, is near his cigar-chewing, throat-slitting, single-entendre-spewing best here. So is Vernon Wells, the baddie from THE ROAD WARRIOR who has the misfortune to have to fight a bare-chested Arnold while wearing a tight chain mail shirt that serves mainly to remind the audience that his workout routine probably included lifting plates of donuts off the craft services table in between slugs of Foster's. (What was Dan Hedaya thinking, taking on mercenaries like Wells and Duke, so clearly in need of a Stairmaster? And while we're at it, how did hiring the 5'4" of fury that is David Patrick Kelly seem like a good idea?) Hell, even Bill Paxton gets in on the fun, though it must be said (ahem) that he doesn't actually get to kill anybody.
The 80s are an easy decade to mock The fashions were bad, the hairstyles appalling, and a lot of the pop music made you want to slam an ice-pick through your eardrums. On the other hand, and possibly because of this, such a slew of amazingly good, totally irresponsible and uber-violent films has seldom been unleashed by Hollywood like so many slavering hell-hounds. Among the best of these? COMMANDO, a movie that scientifically proves that good will not only triumph over evil, it will pop a 5.56 mm slug through its forehead and then make fun of it as it twitches.
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This is the peak of American action movies!
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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 3, 2022
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The quality of the movie is very basic, it is not remastered.
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The quality of the movie is very basic, it is not remastered.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Unfortunately, no one can actually tell you what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 25, 2011
Let me just get one thing out of the way first...if you take this film seriously then you are COMPLETELY missing the point.
Between Terminator and Predator big Arn made another one-word tough-guy action film that delivered what it promised and then some. Commando is almost tailor-made for Arnie's style of over-the-top action. In fact, I wouldn't say that this film goes over-the-top as much as I would say it launches into the stratosphere, powered by utterly implausible action, corny-as-hell one-liners, a ludicrous plot, and the campiest, least-threatening villain in movie history.
Arnie plays John Matrix (yeah, you really did read that correctly) an East-German defector and retired Special Forces Operative (at the age of 37!) who only wishes to live a life of peace with his daughter Chenny in a cozy cabin on Mount Baldy, California (the kind of place you'd expect Larry David to live). Trouble arises when Cooke (the incredible stoic Bill Duke) an emotionless hitman, starts knocking off Matrix's former comrades. It's all just a ruse to lure him out of hiding and snatch his daughter, a plan 'masterminded' by Bennett, Freddie Mercury's twin brother and the man Matrix kicked out of his unit because 'he enjoyed killing a little too much'.
Matrix's mission is to fly out to Val Verde and kill the democratically elected President that he himself helped to install after overthrowing Arius (Dan Heydaya) a brutal dictator. With Chenny being used as blackmail, Matrix has no option but to go along with the plot. But he'll be back sooner than you think as he's the kind of guy who just exits a plane during mid-take-off. After dragging Cindy, an easily excitable flight-attendant (Rae Dawn Chong), along for the ride Matrix pummels his way through Bennett's henchmen and Arius' piss-ant soldiers one by one, hoping to find Chenny before the plane lands in Val Verde.
There's little in this film that makes sense (such as how could a brutal dictator be exiled to an island just a few minutes of the California coast and the Pentagon NOT know about it? and Why is every one of Arius' piss-ant soldiers the same man in a hat with a fake mustache and gun?) but I'll be damned if it's not entertaining. Almost everything Bennett says is a one-liner for the ages. And don't get me started on the sub-text! He basically kidnaps Chenny (and does the job for free) because he's jealous of her. And if you just listen to his hysterical final confrontation with Matrix, and turn your head away from the screen...tell me that DOESN'T sound like a man-on-man love scene. It honestly would not surprise me if footage of Bennett was played on a constant loop on giant screens in gay night-clubs.
James Horner's score is also utterly brilliant, almost never stopping from start to finish, thundering the action along with sharp, punchy strings, eccentric saxophones, and upbeat, funky steel drums. This is truly one of Horner's best efforts, forget Braveheart or Titanic and hunt down the Commando score CD.
Mark L. Lester's career sort of withered away after the 80s, but this movie is certainly his crowning achievement and helped solidify Arnie's reputation as an endlessly likeable, bigger-than-life movie star. There have been talks of a remake directed by David Ayer and starring Sam Worthington (the names attached at the time of writing). They want to make it more gritty and serious apparently. Are you kidding me? Making Commando more gritty and serious is like adding ketchup to custard in order to make it 'more of a dinner'. It just won't work. And besides, 20th Century Fox virtually remade Commando in 2007 with the dull John Cena flick The Marine (they really stretched their imagination when they came up with THAT title), further proving that a remake is a stupid idea.
The Blu Ray looks above average in 1080p 1.85:1. It was one of the first Blu Rays Fox released and I wish they put a bit more effort into it (it doesn't even feature the Director's Cut, which which came out on DVD at the same time. The DTS HD-MA soundtrack highlights some of the more dated elements of the sound design (plain old Dolby Stereo A) but is otherwise passable. There are no extras.
Between Terminator and Predator big Arn made another one-word tough-guy action film that delivered what it promised and then some. Commando is almost tailor-made for Arnie's style of over-the-top action. In fact, I wouldn't say that this film goes over-the-top as much as I would say it launches into the stratosphere, powered by utterly implausible action, corny-as-hell one-liners, a ludicrous plot, and the campiest, least-threatening villain in movie history.
Arnie plays John Matrix (yeah, you really did read that correctly) an East-German defector and retired Special Forces Operative (at the age of 37!) who only wishes to live a life of peace with his daughter Chenny in a cozy cabin on Mount Baldy, California (the kind of place you'd expect Larry David to live). Trouble arises when Cooke (the incredible stoic Bill Duke) an emotionless hitman, starts knocking off Matrix's former comrades. It's all just a ruse to lure him out of hiding and snatch his daughter, a plan 'masterminded' by Bennett, Freddie Mercury's twin brother and the man Matrix kicked out of his unit because 'he enjoyed killing a little too much'.
Matrix's mission is to fly out to Val Verde and kill the democratically elected President that he himself helped to install after overthrowing Arius (Dan Heydaya) a brutal dictator. With Chenny being used as blackmail, Matrix has no option but to go along with the plot. But he'll be back sooner than you think as he's the kind of guy who just exits a plane during mid-take-off. After dragging Cindy, an easily excitable flight-attendant (Rae Dawn Chong), along for the ride Matrix pummels his way through Bennett's henchmen and Arius' piss-ant soldiers one by one, hoping to find Chenny before the plane lands in Val Verde.
There's little in this film that makes sense (such as how could a brutal dictator be exiled to an island just a few minutes of the California coast and the Pentagon NOT know about it? and Why is every one of Arius' piss-ant soldiers the same man in a hat with a fake mustache and gun?) but I'll be damned if it's not entertaining. Almost everything Bennett says is a one-liner for the ages. And don't get me started on the sub-text! He basically kidnaps Chenny (and does the job for free) because he's jealous of her. And if you just listen to his hysterical final confrontation with Matrix, and turn your head away from the screen...tell me that DOESN'T sound like a man-on-man love scene. It honestly would not surprise me if footage of Bennett was played on a constant loop on giant screens in gay night-clubs.
James Horner's score is also utterly brilliant, almost never stopping from start to finish, thundering the action along with sharp, punchy strings, eccentric saxophones, and upbeat, funky steel drums. This is truly one of Horner's best efforts, forget Braveheart or Titanic and hunt down the Commando score CD.
Mark L. Lester's career sort of withered away after the 80s, but this movie is certainly his crowning achievement and helped solidify Arnie's reputation as an endlessly likeable, bigger-than-life movie star. There have been talks of a remake directed by David Ayer and starring Sam Worthington (the names attached at the time of writing). They want to make it more gritty and serious apparently. Are you kidding me? Making Commando more gritty and serious is like adding ketchup to custard in order to make it 'more of a dinner'. It just won't work. And besides, 20th Century Fox virtually remade Commando in 2007 with the dull John Cena flick The Marine (they really stretched their imagination when they came up with THAT title), further proving that a remake is a stupid idea.
The Blu Ray looks above average in 1080p 1.85:1. It was one of the first Blu Rays Fox released and I wish they put a bit more effort into it (it doesn't even feature the Director's Cut, which which came out on DVD at the same time. The DTS HD-MA soundtrack highlights some of the more dated elements of the sound design (plain old Dolby Stereo A) but is otherwise passable. There are no extras.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Unfortunately, no one can actually tell you what the Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself
By Inspector Gadget on July 25, 2011
Let me just get one thing out of the way first...if you take this film seriously then you are COMPLETELY missing the point.By Inspector Gadget on July 25, 2011
Between Terminator and Predator big Arn made another one-word tough-guy action film that delivered what it promised and then some. Commando is almost tailor-made for Arnie's style of over-the-top action. In fact, I wouldn't say that this film goes over-the-top as much as I would say it launches into the stratosphere, powered by utterly implausible action, corny-as-hell one-liners, a ludicrous plot, and the campiest, least-threatening villain in movie history.
Arnie plays John Matrix (yeah, you really did read that correctly) an East-German defector and retired Special Forces Operative (at the age of 37!) who only wishes to live a life of peace with his daughter Chenny in a cozy cabin on Mount Baldy, California (the kind of place you'd expect Larry David to live). Trouble arises when Cooke (the incredible stoic Bill Duke) an emotionless hitman, starts knocking off Matrix's former comrades. It's all just a ruse to lure him out of hiding and snatch his daughter, a plan 'masterminded' by Bennett, Freddie Mercury's twin brother and the man Matrix kicked out of his unit because 'he enjoyed killing a little too much'.
Matrix's mission is to fly out to Val Verde and kill the democratically elected President that he himself helped to install after overthrowing Arius (Dan Heydaya) a brutal dictator. With Chenny being used as blackmail, Matrix has no option but to go along with the plot. But he'll be back sooner than you think as he's the kind of guy who just exits a plane during mid-take-off. After dragging Cindy, an easily excitable flight-attendant (Rae Dawn Chong), along for the ride Matrix pummels his way through Bennett's henchmen and Arius' piss-ant soldiers one by one, hoping to find Chenny before the plane lands in Val Verde.
There's little in this film that makes sense (such as how could a brutal dictator be exiled to an island just a few minutes of the California coast and the Pentagon NOT know about it? and Why is every one of Arius' piss-ant soldiers the same man in a hat with a fake mustache and gun?) but I'll be damned if it's not entertaining. Almost everything Bennett says is a one-liner for the ages. And don't get me started on the sub-text! He basically kidnaps Chenny (and does the job for free) because he's jealous of her. And if you just listen to his hysterical final confrontation with Matrix, and turn your head away from the screen...tell me that DOESN'T sound like a man-on-man love scene. It honestly would not surprise me if footage of Bennett was played on a constant loop on giant screens in gay night-clubs.
James Horner's score is also utterly brilliant, almost never stopping from start to finish, thundering the action along with sharp, punchy strings, eccentric saxophones, and upbeat, funky steel drums. This is truly one of Horner's best efforts, forget Braveheart or Titanic and hunt down the [[ASIN:B000LMXDEM Commando]] score CD.
Mark L. Lester's career sort of withered away after the 80s, but this movie is certainly his crowning achievement and helped solidify Arnie's reputation as an endlessly likeable, bigger-than-life movie star. There have been talks of a remake directed by David Ayer and starring Sam Worthington (the names attached at the time of writing). They want to make it more gritty and serious apparently. Are you kidding me? Making Commando more gritty and serious is like adding ketchup to custard in order to make it 'more of a dinner'. It just won't work. And besides, 20th Century Fox virtually remade Commando in 2007 with the dull John Cena flick The Marine (they really stretched their imagination when they came up with THAT title), further proving that a remake is a stupid idea.
The Blu Ray looks above average in 1080p 1.85:1. It was one of the first Blu Rays Fox released and I wish they put a bit more effort into it (it doesn't even feature the Director's Cut, which which came out on DVD at the same time. The DTS HD-MA soundtrack highlights some of the more dated elements of the sound design (plain old Dolby Stereo A) but is otherwise passable. There are no extras.
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I love all those liners from this movie. Childhood favorite and now sharing with my kid. One of the best Arnold movies.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
あんた一体なんなのよ!
Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on November 1, 2018
吹き替えで観れる!
平田節が味わえる!
あたしはポチる!
娘が隠れてる施設なのに突然メチャクチャぶっぱなす!
かと思ったらディレクターズカット版で大勢萌人を出す!
挙句はTV再放映のチャンスを何度も持ち上げる!あんた人間なの!?
お次は製作30周年記念日本語吹替新録版ときたわ!
玄田哲章があんた達を萌殺そうとしたんで買ったわ!
そしたらあたしまで腑抜けの身よ!
一体なにがあったのか教えて頂戴?
平田節が味わえる!
あたしはポチる!
娘が隠れてる施設なのに突然メチャクチャぶっぱなす!
かと思ったらディレクターズカット版で大勢萌人を出す!
挙句はTV再放映のチャンスを何度も持ち上げる!あんた人間なの!?
お次は製作30周年記念日本語吹替新録版ときたわ!
玄田哲章があんた達を萌殺そうとしたんで買ったわ!
そしたらあたしまで腑抜けの身よ!
一体なにがあったのか教えて頂戴?
Adam
5.0 out of 5 stars
Finally available uncut on DVD...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 2, 2019
This review is specifically for the 2015 UK DVD release of Commando, from Fox. I'm not going to review the film itself, because if you're reading this you've probably already seen it (and if you haven't, I'll simply say that it's one of Arnie's best flicks, arguably his seminal action flick, setting the tone for his performance in later films such as Predator, The Running Man and Total Recall).
The focus of this review is on this specific release of the film, which is the first time the uncensored theatrical cut of the film has been made available on DVD in the UK. I previously bought the 2003 DVD release of Commando, also from Fox, and was disappointed to discover that substantial cuts had been made to the violence in the film. In total, around 59 seconds of footage was was removed; the 2003 DVD was release was actually more heavily cut than the VHS release, which only had about 15 seconds of footage removed.
The film was subsequently resubmitted to the BBFC in 2007 for the Blu-ray release and all previous cuts were waived. So the film has been available uncut on Blu-ray in the UK since 2008, but it wasn't until 2015 that the uncut theatrical cut was released on DVD as well. The 2015 DVD also has superior picture quality to the 2003 release, and includes a feature commentary from director, Mark Lester. I'm overall pleased with the 2015 DVD, and advise anyone looking to buy the film on DVD to steer well clear of the 2003 release.
The focus of this review is on this specific release of the film, which is the first time the uncensored theatrical cut of the film has been made available on DVD in the UK. I previously bought the 2003 DVD release of Commando, also from Fox, and was disappointed to discover that substantial cuts had been made to the violence in the film. In total, around 59 seconds of footage was was removed; the 2003 DVD was release was actually more heavily cut than the VHS release, which only had about 15 seconds of footage removed.
The film was subsequently resubmitted to the BBFC in 2007 for the Blu-ray release and all previous cuts were waived. So the film has been available uncut on Blu-ray in the UK since 2008, but it wasn't until 2015 that the uncut theatrical cut was released on DVD as well. The 2015 DVD also has superior picture quality to the 2003 release, and includes a feature commentary from director, Mark Lester. I'm overall pleased with the 2015 DVD, and advise anyone looking to buy the film on DVD to steer well clear of the 2003 release.
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ben steward
2.0 out of 5 stars
Schwarzenegger is good. Film isn't
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 30, 2019
Right. Where do I start. I'm a huge fan of Schwarzenegger. I enjoy most of his films. So I'll start with the good. Arnold Schwarzenegger is as good as you'd expect in an action roll. That's it. Now for the bad. The acting and dialogue is absolutely awful. The kids in Kindergarten Cop are far superior actors. The woman who helps Arnie is so annoying and Bennett is the worst antagonist ever put to film. I know it's a mid 80s film but the music is so cheesy. I mean really, really bad. This film has not aged well. Now for the really bad. It's edited really bad. Some of the kills are cut out. I can live with Arnie having the strength to carry a tree, or rip out a car seat with his bare hands, or survive a 100ft fall from a plane without a scratch, or throw a pipe with such force that it goes through a human body like a knife through butter. But when you cut out a realistic kill where he beaks a man's neck with his bare hands, one of the best kills in the film with the best one liner to follow. That's unforgivable
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鷹村蘇芳
5.0 out of 5 stars
「吹替の帝王」の廉価版です
Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on October 25, 2019
コマンドー <日本語吹替完全版> [AmazonDVDコレクション] [Blu-ray]
は、「吹替の帝王」版のコマンドーから特典を省き本編ディスクのみにした廉価版です。
日本語吹替完全版と書いてありながら一部字幕が残ってる作品がたまにありますが、これは吹替の帝王版なので心配ありません。
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は、「吹替の帝王」版のコマンドーから特典を省き本編ディスクのみにした廉価版です。
日本語吹替完全版と書いてありながら一部字幕が残ってる作品がたまにありますが、これは吹替の帝王版なので心配ありません。
いろんなバージョンのレビューが混在していてどの商品だかわからないAmazonレビューのこの仕様、なんとかならないもんでじょうか
5.0 out of 5 stars
「吹替の帝王」の廉価版です
Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on October 25, 2019
コマンドー <日本語吹替完全版> [AmazonDVDコレクション] [Blu-ray]Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on October 25, 2019
は、「吹替の帝王」版のコマンドーから特典を省き本編ディスクのみにした廉価版です。
日本語吹替完全版と書いてありながら一部字幕が残ってる作品がたまにありますが、これは吹替の帝王版なので心配ありません。
いろんなバージョンのレビューが混在していてどの商品だかわからないAmazonレビューのこの仕様、なんとかならないもんでじょうか
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Jinx
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best....Movie....Ever....
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 31, 2015
The best movie ever just got better! The Director's Cut 30th Anniversary Edition adds extra scenes of dialogue and each death scene is about 1.5 seconds longer, so you get a better look at the violence!
John Matrix is an ex-spec-ops soldier whose daughter is kidnapped by a deposed Central American dictator. He gives Matrix an ultimatum - return him to power or his daughter dies. Instead, Matrix goes on a one-man war against the terrorists!
The film is hilariously terrible and crosses over into the realm of extreme awesomeness! GO ARNIE!
John Matrix is an ex-spec-ops soldier whose daughter is kidnapped by a deposed Central American dictator. He gives Matrix an ultimatum - return him to power or his daughter dies. Instead, Matrix goes on a one-man war against the terrorists!
The film is hilariously terrible and crosses over into the realm of extreme awesomeness! GO ARNIE!
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