A staple of OTT 80's action nonsense, Commando follows retired ex special forces colonel John Matrix who is living in isolation with his daughter. One day, they are attacked and captured by the private army of a former south American dictator, who wants Matrix to perform a political assassination so he can return to power. They take his daughter away to a secret location and threaten to kill her if he doesn't cooperate. However, Matrix has other ideas, and so we have huge explosions, over the top action and excessive violence in ways only 80's action movies can do justice.
I must say I wasn't a massive fan of this when I was younger, I found it just a bit too silly and tongue in cheek... but funnily enough it's those qualities that make me love it today. Schwarzenegger is awesome in the title role, and you really start rooting for him as he rips his way through bad guy after bad guy trying to save his daughter. Despite the violence the film is actually quite humerous, with funny lines and larger than life characters (Matrix's former friend and main antagonist Bennett is so over the top its hilarious). In fact the only downside really was the stewardess character who tags along, who just got on my nerves very quickly. Why do they always do that?
This particular version of the film I watched was the uncut Director's Cut, which is I believe the first time this has become officially available in the UK. It doesn't really add that much to be fair, there's no extra scenes or dialogue that I noticed - all it adds really is extra gore and extended kill scenes in the final act, that were cut when the film was originally theatrically released here . Still, it's nice being able to see the complete film finally.
All in all, Commando is great fun and is pretty much the epitome of everything 80's. If this sounds like your thing, get it watched immediately!
I must say I wasn't a massive fan of this when I was younger, I found it just a bit too silly and tongue in cheek... but funnily enough it's those qualities that make me love it today. Schwarzenegger is awesome in the title role, and you really start rooting for him as he rips his way through bad guy after bad guy trying to save his daughter. Despite the violence the film is actually quite humerous, with funny lines and larger than life characters (Matrix's former friend and main antagonist Bennett is so over the top its hilarious). In fact the only downside really was the stewardess character who tags along, who just got on my nerves very quickly. Why do they always do that?
This particular version of the film I watched was the uncut Director's Cut, which is I believe the first time this has become officially available in the UK. It doesn't really add that much to be fair, there's no extra scenes or dialogue that I noticed - all it adds really is extra gore and extended kill scenes in the final act, that were cut when the film was originally theatrically released here . Still, it's nice being able to see the complete film finally.
All in all, Commando is great fun and is pretty much the epitome of everything 80's. If this sounds like your thing, get it watched immediately!
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