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Arnold Schwarzenegger (Actor), Rae Dawn Chong (Actor), Mark L. Lester (Director) Rated: Suitable for 18 years and over Format: Blu-ray
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  • Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, James Olson, Bill Duke, Dan Hedaya
  • Directors: Mark L. Lester
  • Producers: Joel Silver
  • Format: Blu-ray
  • Region: Region B/2 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Fox
  • DVD Release Date: 4 May 2015
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (309 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00UL814DI
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Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in this director's cut edition of Mark L. Lester's classic 80's action thriller. John Matrix (Schwarzenegger), a retired Secret Service colonel, is on the trail of right-wing renegades and a Central American dictator, whom he had once helped to depose. The renegades have kidnapped his eleven-year-old daughter and Matrix is not going to rest until he has her back. The cast also includes Rae Dawn Chong, James Olson and Bill Duke.

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A massively underrated action thriller which kept Schwarzenegger occupied between 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.

The DVD comes with no additional features at all, but who needs 'em anyway? --Roger Thomas --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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1.0 out of 5 starsDVD is Cut to shreds
By Stromberg on 1 May 2014
Format: DVD
No, it's not just one quick scene of an arm being cut off after the shed attack. That was only cut in the BBFC cinema and VHS version. This UK release of "Commando" on DVD is loaded with further cuts. I love this movie and would give it 5 stars as a film but I'm here to review the DVD release to help purchasers, which is what all reviewers should do. Apparently the UK DVD release uses a German master from the German ultra-sensitive censor. None of these scenes are exclusive to a "Director's Cut", these are supposed to be in the official theatrical release. Here are some of the scenes cut on the UK DVD.

1. Man bringing out bins gets an extra shooting up by Cooke when on the ground.
2. Henrique, accompanying Matrix on plane has his neck broken.
3. Leg of table sticking through Cooke's stomach
4. Matrix slits a soldier's throat, while planting bombs (close-up)
5. Matrix stabs a man in the chest, while planting bombs (only the strangle is seen)
6. Matrix throws 2 knives at soldiers before massive attack
7. Shed-scene: Pitch-fork to the chest
8. Shed-scene: Axe to the groin
9. Shed-scene: Arm sliced off (This was the only scene originally cut by the UK censor)
10. Close-ups of pole in Bennet's stomach.

The Blu-Ray UK release has every one of these scenes restored but for those of us not getting roped into the Blu-Ray gimmick and over spending, we are denied an uncut DVD release of the theatrical version, not alone a Directors Cut release in the UK, which has even more scenes.
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5.0 out of 5 stars"DONT DISTURB MY FRIEND HE'S DEAD TIRED"
By Paul J. Jackson on 18 July 2010
Format: Blu-ray
First of all the 1st review on this page is incorrect COMMANDO on Blu Ray is UNCUT compared to the standard DVD version its the U.S.THEATRICAL CUT which runs at 88 mins, the standard DVD runs at 85 mins. So COMMANDO fans we get to eventually see the TOOL SHED scene UNCUT -eg GARDEN FORK, PICKAXE, SAW BLADES & arm chopped off with MACHETTE... So picture quality is a step above the normal DVD, It still has grain visible but what can you expect the ACTION CLASSIC is 25 years old.. The sound quality is also good for the age of the film.. I can remember renting COMMANDO back in 86 and what an IMPACT it had "i loved it" Arnie is FANTASTIC, Full of ACTION & DARK HUMOUR, An 80's CLASSIC. "GO & BUY NOW"
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5.0 out of 5 stars“I eat Green Berets for lunch, and right now I’m very hungry.”
By Trevor Willsmer HALL OF FAMETOP 50 REVIEWER on 11 Oct. 2015
Format: Blu-ray
Cruelly overlooked at Oscar time, Commando is quite possibly the bestest film in the history of ever, and almost certainly the only one with Bill Paxton in it where over a hundred people are killed and he isn’t one of them. It’s a film that wastes no time setting things up: from the series of murders of Arnie’s old comrades in arms from the days when he was the best Special Ops man in the business to the wonderfully cheesey title sequence, which sees Arnie’s full range of parenting skills from messily eating ice cream, petting wild animals and teaching a pre-pubescent Alyssa Milano self-defence, it’s barely a reel before she’s kidnapped by Vernon Wells’ outrageously over the top Village Person from Hell and he’s killing henchmen and crashing cars. Wells wants him to kill a South American president so its disposed former dictator can stage a coup if he wants her back, but naturally Arnie’s having none of it and before you can spell Schwarzenegger he’s using his own special set of skills to get her back, with a little initially unwilling help from Rae Dawn Chong’s air stewardess and an endless supply of pre- and post-kill one liners.

From the days when action films had more colours than orange and teal, stayed in focus, used camera tripods and let you see what was happening in the fight scenes and the big stunts - it even borrows the old Hong Kong action movie trick of encoring its really big stunts and explosions from multiple angles so you can appreciate them at length rather than throwing them away - experienced exploitation director Mark L. Lester (he of Truck Stop Women fame) keeps things moving and constantly looking good with such panache that you wonder why he never moved up into the big leagues and ended up languishing in direct to video schlock.Read more ›
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2.0 out of 5 starsWhy use the 80s cut version?
By smugs on 16 Sept. 2010
Format: DVD
First id like to say that this is a great movie, and judging it on it's own merits it is a fun and exciting 80s Arnie flick, cheesy sure, but a good popcorn flick none the less.

But why have we been given the 80s edited version on DVD? Especially when according to the BBFC web site all-previous cuts have now been waived, and a longer 88m version was passed with no cuts back in 2007?

Some people are criticizing the BBFC for this, but seeing as they have now waived all previous cuts, it can only be the studio that is to blame for not releasing an uncut version.
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5.0 out of 5 starsClassic 1980s Arnie action pic
By A. Moncrieff on 31 Mar. 2013
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
Perhaps the epitome of 1980s action and non-franchise Arnie product, Commando is a very dated and extremely entertaining action film full of great stunts, one liners and cheesy, gaptoothed Arnie goodness. Rae Dawn Chong plays a typical 1980s sidekick with some still-funny one liners (and some real groaners), Dan Hedaya (apparently in shoe polish) plays a deposed dictator from Val Verde (the same fictional Central American country from Predator and Die Hard 2), Vernon Wells (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Weird Science) plays Bennett, David Patrick Kelly oozes slime as Sully, some guy plays the Richard Crenna-role from Rambo and Bill Paxton shows up in a brief cameo (Arnie killed him in Terminator, and threatened him later in True Lies). All in all, a good cast.

Comic book writer Joseph "Jeph" Loeb was one of the writers of the script and it is probably him who contributed the memorable "rogue's gallery" of villains here - the "evil muscleman" Bennett, the "sleazy white guy" Sully, the "complacent psychopath" Cooke, etc - which makes the film so much fun to watch. The film is nicely situated between spoof and genuine thrilling action. Rather than undermine the film, the comedy here is to reinforce the thrills the film provides and knows you came for.

James Horner's score is quite good in a very cheesy way. While Horner has never done anything original in his life, he comes pretty close here - we can here lots of pre-echoes of the atmospheric militarism of his upcoming Aliens score, along with an extremely catchy melody performed on steelpan/steel drums. Also used are lots of keyboards (obviously), pan pipes (to indicate those of asian descent - really?) and, of course, the most 1980s instrument of all - the saxophone. Overall, it's extremely effective.Read more ›
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