Luckily, the movie has an equally strong villain in Vernon Wells, who delights in chewing the scenery and generally acting as insane as possible in any given situation. Schwarzenegger's charismatic and hugely likable screen presence is undeniable, and his delivery of those classic one-liners is perfect. Unless you don't like Arnold or over-the-top action films, it's unlikely you'll find Commando boring. Me, I had a blast watching Arnold inflict his brand of justice upon these nasty villains. The climactic battle sequence, in which he single-handedly takes on at least a hundred men, will either make or break the film for you. Whether it's through the movie's various shootouts, fistfights, or chases, the movie delivers thrilling action one scene after another. But you don't watch Commando for plot or technical brilliance, you watch it to see Arnold acting as a one-man army, mowing down scores of enemy thugs and soldiers. There are also plenty of noticeable continuity errors (ask yourself how a guy standing behind a railing atop a balcony could be hit with shotgun pellets without the railing taking the slightest bit of damage!), but that just adds to the movie's list of unique charms. Here are a few examples: "I eat green berets for breakfast and I'm very hungry,""Remember when I said I'd kill you last? I lied," and "Let off some steam, Bennett!" The script is mindless and idiotic, but serves its purpose by providing just enough plot and enormously entertaining one-liners to keep the momentum from ebbing. In fact, the lines are so fun, I have a hard time choosing my favorites. Running at a lightning fast ninety minutes, the film is packed to the gunnels with explosive action sequences and quotable one-liners. Commando is one of those critically berated movies that only concerns itself with giving its target audience a good time. Inexplicably joining his search is a flight attendant (Rae Dawn Chong) who gets mixed up in this whole mess. As soon as Matrix boards his flight, he kills his escort, leaps off the plane, and begins his eleven-hour search for his daughter. As incentive, Matrix's daughter is kidnapped by renegade military, led by Bennett (Vernon Wells), who was once part of Matrix's team. Matrix's former teammates are being knocked off one-by-one at the orders of a Latino dictator (Dan Hedaya) who wants Matrix to assassinate a popular South American leader so that he can be instilled back in power. Schwarzenegger stars as John Matrix, a former commando who lives in the mountains with his young daughter (Alyssa Milano). Commando represents all this, directed with high energy flair and a great sense of fun. Whenever we think of the Austrian muscle-bound star's films gun battles, fist fights, deadpan one-liners, a total lack of plot, and a ridiculously high body count come to mind. In its own simplistic ways, Commando is actually the epitome of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Lester's Commando as the prime example of a pure macho classic and the standard by which all mindless action cinema should be judged. the works of Jerry Bruckheimer), I point back and tell them to look no further than Mark L. Rating: *** 1/2 out of **** Every time I'm accused by friends of being too tough or too picky on action movies made for pure entertainment (i.e. All close ups of the pole in Bennett's ( Vernon Wells) stomach are gone.The shot of the piece of wood sticking through Cooke's stomach is absent.The shot of Matrix snapping Henriques neck is gone. When Matrix breaks Henriques' ( Charles Meshack) neck on the plane, he simply elbows him, and in the next shot, Henrqiues is already dead.In the opening scene, after Cooke ( Bill Duke) has initially shot the man in the robe, he walks over to the body and shoots him again.In this version additional edits include, but are not limited to: The heavily edited 2001 UK DVD version, with a total of 56 seconds removed, was also used as the master for the initial Australian DVD release. All cuts were fully waived in 2007 by the BBFC (although it was not released until 2015). The 2001 UK DVD release retained these cuts and also added a further 44 seconds of distributor cuts this was because the DVD master used for the UK release was a censored German/Scandinavian version. The original UK cinema and video versions were censored by around 15 seconds, and removed the shots where Matrix ( Arnold Schwarzenegger) slices off the soldier's arm with the machete as well as Bennett's death to remove a shot of the pipe in his chest and the tracking shot of it sticking from his body.
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