It might have been fun to watch when I was nine, but knowing what I know now, it is a horribly offensive film.
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10/26/09
Commando (1985)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:22
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: After his daughter (Alyssa Milano) is kidnapped by a South American dictator, retired Army Colonel John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger), once the leader of a special commando strike force, swings... [More]
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells
Director: Mark L. Lester
Reviews for Commando
An audacious comic-book movie on steroids...cinematic junk food, but even a dieter deserves to cheat once in a while. [Blu-Ray]
05/26/08
You're welcome, California!
01/03/08
one of the best arguments available for the action movie as pure entertainment
10/07/07
serves as a template for many future action flicks
09/24/07
Comic book stuff, helped out by the presence of Rae Dawn Chong as an airline stewardess whose sarcastic commentary adds some comic counterpoint to the deliberately overscaled action.
09/18/07
For action fans, one of the picks of the litter for the year.
09/18/07
Chong lights up the film like a firefly, Schwarzenegger delivers a certain light touch of his own, [and] the result is palatable action comics.
09/18/07
Top CriticThe finale is laughably preposterous, with the speedo-ed commando landing on a remote island, gunning down at least a hundred men with fake moustaches, and indiscriminately blowing up buildings in search of little Alyssa.
08/17/07
No review available.
06/12/07
Lots of machine-gunfire, explosions and disposable khaki-clad extras, as you'd expect.
06/24/06
The greatest guilty pleasure in the history of cinema.
01/09/06
No review available.
06/13/05
No review available.
07/08/04
A violent guilty pleasure from the Schwarzenegger estate
02/20/04
No review available.
01/08/04
No review available.
12/25/03
No review available.
11/15/03
No review available.
10/27/03
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