#169: Commando , Movies recommended or seen lately... les films a voir

Genre: Action

Annee/Year: 1985

Format: Blu Ray

Commando. This is the first over the top mega movie which made Arnold Schwarzenegger after playing in the Conan and Red Sonja movies. From director Mark L. Lester who is best known for his '80s action movies. In Commando Arnold plays the role of a tough sepcial ops veteran named John Matrix who's daughter gets abducted by the baddies from a latin american country. The purpose is to force Matrix to do some dirty deeds for them. Little did theu know him and it will cost them dearly in a debauchery of machine guns and explosions. Pure entertainment which has aged a bit since the '80s.
Schwarzenegger still pops out of the screen though with his inept acting skills but bigger than life charisma. A good memory revisited with barealy acceptable Blu ray tramsfer.

Commando. Un des films déterminants de la carrière de Arnold Schwarzenegger après avoir joués dans Conan et dans Red Sonja. Le directeur de ce film est Mark L. Lester bien connu pour ses films d'action des années '80. Arnold joue ici le rôle de John Matrix un vétéran des opérations spéciales américaines dont la fille est prise en otage par des méchants d'un pays d'Amérique du Sud. Tout ca pour manipuler Matrix à les aider à renverser leur gouvernement. Mal leur en a pris, car Matrix leur bottera le cul dans une orgie de mitraillettes et d'explosions. Du divertissement a l'état pur. Arnold y joue un rôle tres bien adapte, malgré son peu de talent d'acteur il crève l'écran avec son charisme plus grand que nature. Un bon souvenir revisite malgré la qualité tres moyenne du transfert en Blu-ray.


Great quotes:
Diaz: Mellow out man. We can't talk business with you waving guns in people's faces. Your daughter is safe, Colonel. Now whether she stays that way is up to you. My people, they got some business with you. And if you want your kid back, then you gotta co-operate, right?
Matrix: Wrong!
[shoots Diaz between the eyes]
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Sully: Here's twenty dollars to get some beers in Val Verde. It'll give us all a little more time with your daughter.
Henriques: Heh.
Matrix: You're a funny man, Sully, I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last.
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Cindy: Can you tell me what this is all about?
Matrix: Yeah, a guy I trusted for years wants me dead.
Cindy: That's understandable. I've only known you for five minutes and I want you dead, too.
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Matrix: Don't break radio silence until they see me.
Cindy: How will I know?
Matrix: Because all fucking hell is going to break loose.
...

Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088944/maindetails

Rating perso: 6.5/10