Commando [Region 2] |  | Director: Mark L. Lester
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, James Olson
Category: DVD
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Rating:  190 reviews
Sales Rank: 208422
Format: PAL
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), Czech (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), Hebrew (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Icelandic (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 2
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Running Time: 90 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5039036004732
ASIN: B0000560Y0
Theatrical Release Date: October 4, 1985
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A massively underrated action thriller that kept Arnold Schwarzenegger occupied between mid-'80s blockbusters, Commando may be one of the last shoot-out films ever to have real characters in it. Not, of course, that they're anything other than stereotypes, but they're painted with such detailed, positive strokes that it's impossible not to relate to them. Arnie plays a retired military special-ops officer whose daughter (played with an expert balance of cute/feisty by Alyssa Milano) is kidnapped by the baddest of bad guys, who'll only hand her back as and when he's assassinated a tiresome banana-republic president on their behalf. Needless to say, Arnie is deeply annoyed by this, rescues the moppet single-handed amid more bullets and explosions than you can shake a stuntman's pay cheque at, and... well, why spoil the fun by revealing any more? Co-star Rae Dawn Chong gets some nice one-liners as the innocent bystander who gets caught up in the mayhem. --Roger Thomas
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 GOLD MINE! January 30, 2010
Kyle C. Krukar (New Jersey)
This movie along with The Island are near impossible to find in the USA. The quality is loaded on a 25 gig blu-ray disc (similar to that of an HD DVD) yet it looks amazing and sounds great. Super fast delivery time!
 Don't be fooled! No special features on the Blu-Ray. January 25, 2010
N. McLaughlin (Lynnwood, WA)
After reading the reviews that amazon posted to the Blu-Ray edition page, it turns out there is no directors commentary or deleted scenes on the blu-ray version.
So buyer beware!
Great Picture December 24, 2009
A. Vega (Miami, FL)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have seen this movie previously to the blu ray release about 20 times. In Blu ray format you can say much more detail even though it's remastered not originally shot in high definition. I would recommend this to someone who ejoyed this movie when it came out in DVD.
Schwarzenegger goes Commando November 25, 2009
H. Bala (Carson - hey, we have an IKEA store! - CA USA)
I don't think anyone can argue that Arnold Schwarzenegger ruled the box office in the '80s and during the first half of the 1990s. By the time COMMANDO came out in 1985, dude had already starred in the two Conan the Barbarian flicks (Conan the Barbarian - Collector's Edition, Conan the Destroyer) and in The Terminator (Special Edition), and his star was on a meteoric rise. COMMANDO cemented Schwarzenegger even more firmly as the new action hero in cinema. This flick also established his habit of cracking wise with the one-liners and is also the second time - after TERMINATOR - that he says what would quickly become his signature phrase ("I'll be back.").
COMMANDO is 91 minutes long. It's lean and mean and gets right to the point. Someone is taking out members of Colonel John Matrix's old black ops unit. Matrix is happily retired and lives somewhere in the wilds, raising his kid daughter (a very young and feisty Alyssa Milano), when he receives the crappalicious news from an old military buddy. Soon enough, his daughter gets abducted by an exiled South (or Central) American dictator who wants back his seat of power and so calls for the assassination of his country's current President. Which is where Matrix comes in. Except that Matrix doesn't intend to play along. And now he's got only eleven hours to get his daughter back and to exact swift Austrian vengeance on those what did him wrong.
Of Arnie's non-sci-fi action stuff, I count True Lies and COMMANDO as his two very best. COMMANDO debuted at a time when not everyone and their grandma knew martial arts, a time when, instead of fancy back flips and karate chops, a good old punch to the face or the classic boot to the head sufficed, backed up now and then by big, big guns. COMMANDO never takes itself too seriously, and that's part of the fun. The action sequences, along with Schwarzenegger's ridiculous feats of strength, crossed over into the absurd and truly made the film a thing of sheer escapism. Rae Dawn Chong plays a cute and helpful stewardess named Cindy who gets dragged along in Matrix's wake of destruction, and she gets her own share of funny lines. But the most memorable quotes come from Schwarzenegger himself, and whoever wrote his dialogue must surely have a cruel streak of humor. For sure, it brought out Arnie's more playful side.
Schwarzenegger was 38 years old at this juncture, still at the peak of his physical prowess and still looking very much like someone you don't ever want to eff with. In a way, John Matrix is almost like the T-800, imposing and relentless, single-minded and wicked strong. Except that Colonel Matrix flaunts a cruel, macabre sense of humor, this turning out to be one of the film's great assets. My favorite line happens right after Matrix dangles a bad guy over a cliff and then mercilessly drops him to his death. When Cindy the Stewardess asks Matrix what happened to the bad guy, Matrix deadpans with "I let him go." Heh. But, no, the movie doesn't really try to get into the head of Matrix too much, what with character development of the lead character not a big concern of the screenplay writer. All we need to know is that Colonel John Matrix will go thru a wall to get his daughter back.
Schwarzenegger does get to demonstrate his softer side at the start of the film. We see him playing with his daughter and even handfeeding a deer. We also see him visibly melting when he glimpses his daughter's valentine card to him posted on the fridge. Really, Arnie comes off as pretty goofy when doing that doting dad thing. But never mind. The man shows that, thick accent or not, he's got the crossover appeal and the charisma to carry a movie and win over an American audience.
I must say that, of all the preposterous stuff that went down in COMMANDO, the most improbable may have been the ridiculously high number of mall guards that went after Matrix. It's like there was a mall guard convention going on at the same time in that mall, or something. It doesn't matter, Matrix wipes them all like toilet paper.
And the body count grows! November 8, 2009
Jim Gateley (Sunnyvale, CA)
4 of 5 stars for the Arnold action movie Commando. This movie is firmly set in the mid-1980's. Arnold is young and Alyssa Milano is a child. The story is simple and the action great. Ex-military Arnold learns that the members of his old troop are being killed. Eventually, they kidnap his daughter (Milano) trying to force Arnold into doing a task. Well, Arnold goes Commando to hunt down where they are holding her and to get her back. Armed with knives, guns, granades and a rocket launcher, he goes into their lair. An easy/basic plot, not much acting/characters to get in the way of the action. Just good old hand-to-hand Arnold. Oh, forgot, he had a few claymores along for the ride. A fun action movie.
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