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Release Date: 18 December, 2001 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $7.97 You SAVE: $7.01! Cast: Complete Cast (14 total) |
Commando Reviews
Arnold opens up the whole can
Arnold gives one of his best action movies of all time. It's quite possible one of the most action-packed, death-filled movies that will ever be seen. And I loved every minute of it.
Arnold is the former leader of a Special Ops unit. He's given up the lifestyle to live in seclusion with his daughter, a young Alyssa Milano. What Arnold doesn't know, however, is that a former soldier of his - one that was kicked out of the unit by Arnold - wants revenge in the worst way possible.
Arnold's arch-enemy is one of the most laughable characters of all time. He's hardly masculine; in fact, he looks like he'd be more comfortable in a gay German porn than in an action movie. What's even greater is that the henchmen employed by the fake tough guy villain are even weaker.
Anyway, the bad guys kidnap Arnold's daughter in order to exact some revenge. They give him some demands, but he knows that there is no way she'll be allowed to live. Instead of following their demands, he starts a mission to rescue her and kill approximately 5,400 men. Other unbelievable, yet stupendous, parts of this movie include: Arnold rips the front seat out of a car with his bare hands; Arnold jumps from an airplane that is taking off, and at approximately 1,000 feet he is able to land in a marsh and run away; and Arnold is able to rip an elevator from the wall and fling it about as if it's a refrigerator cardboard box.
The movie is full of great Arnold-isms. He drops a guy from a cliff and says that he "let him go". He runs through an impossibly hopeless situation and ends up with mere scratches. In fact, that's one of the greatest parts of this macabre delight. Near the end of the movie, Arnold is openly running through fields and various other settings with no cover, nothing to stop the bullets, and literally 20 or 30 men at a time firing upon him with automatic weapons. Not a bullet touches him. Arnold on the other hand has to simply turn and fire; he's got the auto-lock-on feature enabled, and bad guys are vanquished. Every bullet from Arnold's gun, whichever he chooses, is center mass, and deadly. It's hilarious, and it's great! He stabs a guy with a pitchfork, hits another with a blade from a saw, and crushes a guy's groin with an axe.
The two most memorable parts of this movie are worth watching over and over. One, in which Arnold is chasing a bad guy in maybe the only Arnold car chase scene ever, is great because it's a movie error. He totally wrecks a car, and it flips on the driver side. When Arnold flips the car back on its wheels, the door is magically fixed. The absolute best part of this movie is the ending; it's pure Arnold. He kills his antagonist with a pipe through the chest, which goes straight through the body and into a steam machine of some kind. The steam leaves through the pipe, through the body, and out the end of the pipe. Arnold finishes him off with the classic line, "Let off some steam".
Ahnold's best
The action genre peaked in 1985 with Commando. No movie since has been able to wield a proper combination of hard-core violence, witty one-liners and just the right amount of absurdity like Commando did.
Arnold Schwarzennegger stars as John Matrix, an ex-military man now living in a forest with his daughter, played by Alyssa Milano. Their existence is seemingly perfect - they spend their days chopping wood, feeding baby deer and frolicking in a swimming pool - but their bliss is short lived. Back in Matrix's army days, he had to discharge a fellow soldier for being too vicious. Now Bennett (played by Vernon Wells, in a remarkably flamboyant performance) is back and has kidnapped Matrix's beloved daughter.
Commando works on just about every level - from the hilariously over-the-top action sequences to the brutal violence - but hands down, it's the script that makes Commando such a gem. Plenty of movies have tried to emulate the ease with which Commando unfolds, but never quite as successfully. But more than that, it's the classic one-liners that make this an '80s staple. Here are a few choice quips: "Let off some steam" (said after Matrix has thrown a steam pipe through a baddie's chest); "I eat Green Berets for breakfast and I'm very hungry right now!"; "Don't disturb my friend - he's dead tired" (said after snapping the neck of a villian on an airplane and making it appear as though he's sleeping). And then there's the mother of all exchanges: Matrix is holding a bad guy named Sully (who he previously assured he'd kill last) by one leg over the edge of a cliff and the following dialogue ensues:
"Hey Sully, remember when I promised to kill you last?"
"Yeah, man! You said that!"
"I lied." (Followed by Matrix dropping Sully and Sully screaming as he plummets to his death.)
Gold. Pure gold.
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