Tedfoldol
everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Mabel Munoz
Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?
Cassandra
Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Eric Stevenson
From what I heard, this was the Arnold Schwarzeneggar movie where he kills the most people. It kind of confused me, because he only had a couple of them for the first hour and nine minutes of the movie. He gets 90% of the kills (probably even more than that, like 95%) in only ten minutes! I thought this was just going to be a dumb action movie. Honestly, it really is smarter than you'd think. There's this one scene where he's about to jump off the wheel of an airplane.I was thinking how dumb it would be because a fall from that height onto the ground would kill him. He instead lands into water. Okay, that's at least slightly more realistic so I'll give the movie props for that. True, it does have fairly hokey dialogue and it's not the most intelligent of movies. Still, it's jam packed with action and the acting's just fine. This is the first time Arnold said, "I'll be back". ***
dandare4479
Commando is a fabulous over the top action film starring rising superstar Arnold Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger obliterates everything that gets in his path on his way to attempting to rescue his kidnapped daughter. Any film that has the main character causally carrying a tree trunk on his shoulder, and then feeding deer within the first minutes you know that you are in for a classic Arnie film. I would say this is definitely a boys film, lots of guns, grenades, rocket launchers, some of the best one liners in any of Arnolds films. The film has since gained a cult status over the years, but at the time of release it was considered to be a lot more serious a film then the way it is viewed now. The film is littered with plot holes and ridiculous scenarios of one man against every one else, however that is also part of its charm. This film is recommended for people that want an easy going and fun action film that requires minimal brain power to enjoy.
slightlymad22
Continuing my plan to watch every movie in Arnold Schwarzenneger's filmography in order I came to Commando.Plot In A Paragraph: John Matrix (Arnie) A retired elite Black Ops Commando, launches a one man war against a group of South American criminals who have kidnapped his daughter to blackmail him into committing a murder.Arnies attempt at a Rambo style movie is more in the vain of Rambo: First Blood Part 2 than First Blood as Arnie's one man army wipes out an army that is about 100 strong. A cheap and cheesy B movie at its best. It never for one moment has one foot in reality, It's over the top and ridiculous but with Arnie at his charismatic best, it's amazingly quotable and at least entertaining. Despite having his moments, Vernon Wells is awfully miscast and looks ridiculous fighting Arnie. He didn't even come across as crazy enough to be dangerous. I developed quite the crush on Rae Dawn Chong watching this as a kid, and not much has changed. Alyssa Milano is cute enough as Arnie's daughter, but Dan Hedaya is awful. It pains me to say that, as I like him.I'm not sure how lazy James Horner was feeling when he composed the score for this, but it's the same score he used for 48 Hrs. Arnie surprisingly doesn't talk much about Commando in his autobiography Total Recall. He mentions how Joel Silver paid him $1.5 million dollars for the role, and after this movie, he always asked to have one liners put in his movies. And that is about it. Commando ended the year the 25th highest grossing movie of 1985, with a domestic gross of $35 million.
Fluke_Skywalker
Plot; An exiled South American dictator kidnaps the daughter of a retired special forces soldier in an effort to force him into assassinating his successor.The first shot of our hero (Arnold Schwarzenegger, at the absolute peak of his powers) is him walking briskly through the woods with a tree slung over his shoulder. A tree. A. Tree. Over the next 90 or so minutes he flips one car over and tears the seat out of another, rips a phone booth out of the ground and single handedly defeats an entire army. Is this ridiculous? No, it's the 80s.'Commando' isn't high art, but it's a brutally efficient and well made b-movie whose only agenda is to entertain, and that it does. It may not be Arnold's best film, but it may very well be his most generically entertaining.
