Commando

5 stars for the movie, 2 stars for the broken case. There was no apparent damage to the bubble pack envelope or to the DVD. I ordered 12 new empty cases, just in case this happens again. This is one of my favorite all-time Arnold Schwarzenegger films. Arnold is ripped in this film, like he just walked off the Mr. Olympia stage. Arnold had done quite a bit of martial arts training for this film and has a 2nd degree black belt, according to my research. The famous "I'll Be Back" line is back in this film along with the new "I Lied" line. An all around entertaining film, great movie sound score and ending song, "We Fight For Love". The comical part is the car chase scene where the yellow Porsche is all banged up on it's left side, but when Arnold drives away in it, it's brand new again. Great supporting cast, special effects and action. A great film to watch again and again.

An excellent Schwarzenegger movie in which the heroic Colonel Matrix rescues his daughter, played by Rae Dawn Chong from a South American dictator.

About the third time watching this, completely exaggerated Arnold movie, fun to watch

Good movie!

Package arrived on time and undamaged.

A fun movie night movie!

Yes, those are five stars up there. Do I think this film is, artistically speaking, as grand as Apocalypse Now? No, of course not. But I'm meeting the film on its own merits, as an 80's Arnie film, and on that scale it's just about perfect. Key metrics include goons being killed in comical fashion followed by deadpan zingers, big explosions, and giant action set pieces that defy all logic but are insanely fun to watch. On those lines, Commando is a feast. Arnie plays the sublimely named John Matrix, a former military god who has retired to the mountains to look after his daughter. Kudos must be given for a throwaway line about him growing up in East Germany to explain his accent; a lot of Arnie and Van Damme flicks never even bother with those little details. Anyhow, his old unit is being killed one by one despite allegedly being safe under new identities, and Matrix is next. He fights off his attackers but they manage to kidnap his daughter, and thus we have our plot, where Matrix has to rescue his daughter while doling out copious amounts of vengeance. I love basically everything about this movie. You get to see Rae Dawn Chong fire off a four-barrel rocket launcher, gun magazines that somehow get fuller as the weapon fires, and Matrix painstakingly putting on camouflage before just standing in an open field and gunning down dozens of guys without moving or taking cover. Special mention must be given to super-villain Bennett, who looks like a Freddie Mercury impersonator and wears what looks like a homemade chain mail vest everywhere he goes. It's all gravy. A touchstone film for action heads of my generation, and highly recommended for anyone that loves 80's carnage.

I was bored and this moving popped in my head one day...