Commando
1985 Directed by Mark L. Lester
Synopsis
Somewhere... somehow... someone's going to pay
Colonel Matrix has retired and is living with his 10 year old daughter in the country. His daughter is kidnapped to ensure that Matrix will kill the president of a latin American country to allow the return of a dictator. Matrix escapes off a plane flight and has until it lands to rescue his daughter. Matrix must follow the clues he has and solve the mystery in time.
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- perfect cheesy one liners/corpses ratio.
- bullet proof bushes your average Austrian Oak can hide behind when shot at.
- perfect bullshit/bullshit ratio.
- perfect road map to 'switch off your brain and laugh like an idiot' town.
I love it without shame.
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I think it's my favorite 80's Arnold movie, even knowing that Terminator and Running Man exist.
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Un perfecto resumen de todo lo que nos gusta del cine de acción de los ochenta: hombres adultos insultándose muy fuerte ("¿Me recuerdas? - Claro que te recuerdo, TÍO MIERDAS"), nombres increíbles (JOHN MATRIX), exhibicionismo barato, personajes de una pieza o incluso de media pieza, frases lapidarias increíbles y sobre todo unas secuencias de acción y un guión de una urgencia tal que no hace falta recurrir al manido tópico de los placeres culpables para defenderla: Commando es una obra maestra con todas las letras.
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Arnie doesn't have a lot of money but what he does have is a very particular set of skills, and he will look for the people who have taken his daughter, he will find them, and he will kill them with the biggest fuck off guns he can get his muscley paws on all whilst lying about what order he's going to kill people in, correcting people when they're "wrong" and eating green berets for his breakfast.
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Absolutely nothing like what the cover suggests (or at least what I expected). Arnie seems to be phoning it in a little, but it is still ridiculous insane fun. So many one-liners. So many bullets. The ending is pretty great, specifically a scene where Arnie gets attacked in a barn and finds a creative use for sawblades...and of course the final basement showdown. It gets a 3.5 only because I think he can, and has, done better.
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"Come on Bennett... let's party"
If you want to turn your brain off, laugh like an idiot and be thoroughly entertained for an hour and a half - is there any better choice than Commando?
I can't imagine anyone other than Arnie as the lead in this. He's never been better as a one-liner spewing, ass kicking machine and it cements him as, in my eyes, the greatest action movie star of all time.
Commando is so ridiculous it borders on parody of the action genre. The acting is awful, the dialogue is beyond cheesy and the action sequences and plot elements are thoroughly illogical and over the top. If this were most other movies, that combination would make it…
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Prime Schwarzenegger with everything you'd want out of his type of film. Not his best, but a damn great time!
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Absolutely nothing like what the cover suggests (or at least what I expected). Arnie seems to be phoning it in a little, but it is still ridiculous insane fun. So many one-liners. So many bullets. The ending is pretty great, specifically a scene where Arnie gets attacked in a barn and finds a creative use for sawblades...and of course the final basement showdown. It gets a 3.5 only because I think he can, and has, done better.
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I think it's my favorite 80's Arnold movie, even knowing that Terminator and Running Man exist.
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Shotguns. Grenades. Knifes. C4 Explosives. An axe. Pistols. Sub-machine guns. A rocket launcher. Rifles. UZIs. A garden fork. A metal pipe. Yes, just SOME of the weapons Arnie uses to bludgen, maim and de-limb those who stand in his way of seeking out his kidnapped daughter.
Arnie plays former US Special Forces soldier John Matrix who is trying to live a quiet life away from his past. But when his former colleagues come back to haunt him in the guise of kidnapping his daughter and blackmailing him to overthrow a South American president so a corrupt leader can take his place (the pointless narrative), Matrix fights back and races against time to find his daughter and save her before she…
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A Serious Contender for Best Movie Ever.
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In this movie we are introduced to Arnie's character with a scene that has him carrying an enormous tree over one shoulder and a chainsaw in the other hand, all whilst wearing a white vest. It was at that point that I realised exactly what type of film this would be, so I turned my brain off and settled in for the ride.
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"Come on Bennett... let's party"
If you want to turn your brain off, laugh like an idiot and be thoroughly entertained for an hour and a half - is there any better choice than Commando?
I can't imagine anyone other than Arnie as the lead in this. He's never been better as a one-liner spewing, ass kicking machine and it cements him as, in my eyes, the greatest action movie star of all time.
Commando is so ridiculous it borders on parody of the action genre. The acting is awful, the dialogue is beyond cheesy and the action sequences and plot elements are thoroughly illogical and over the top. If this were most other movies, that combination would make it…
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Was in the mood to check out some badass action and boy did this deliver. Probably the manliest, most testosterone-filled movie I've seen since Road House - Commando was a lot of fun. Well-paced with some good action and a very solid score that I noticed several times throughout. Arnold is good as ever as an action hero. The movie uses some of its locations very well - most notably the surroundings during the end sequence (got a very Bad Boys II vibe from it). In terms of criticism, the film's villain was very weak, and I never felt much danger / on the edge of my seat. Overall, an enjoyable action movie that's worth checking out if you're in the mood for some mindless popcorn entertainment.
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This movie is pure concentrated Arnie action. A true "Turn your brains off and enjoy Arnie's muscles" masterpiece!