![]() ![]() Arius wants him to commit a political assassination so he can lead a military coup. His daughter is kidnapped and he is blackmailed by a former Latin American dictator named Arius (played by Dan Hedaya who is probably better remembered by American audiences as Nick Tortelli on "Cheers"). Matrix is a former member of a special forces unit. But in "Commando," Arnold Schwarzenegger's character John Matrix is no match for the countless obstacles that are preventing him from saving his kidnapped daughter, played by a young Alyssa Milano. This is why "Die Hard" was such a great film, the hero of the film didn't look like everyone who came into his way was doomed. Apart from a bad script, there are numerous horrible one-liners and bad acting. These films have outlandish or undeveloped storylines that take a backseat to action sequences that involve the hero of the film being a one man army taking down countless "bad guys." It's an excuse for violence from men with too much testosterone and roid rage that appeals to the adolescent moviegoer. Do the plots in these films actually matter? Probably not. They're extremely boring, anticlimactic, unsatisfying, and for the most part bad films. It's just a fun movie.Action films don't impress me much. And who could forget the Jamaican steel drum music. The most memorable is "Remember Sully when I promised to kill you last? I lied!!". The bad guy has barely gotten one line out about his kidnapped daughter before he gets a bullet in his head. The best thing about this movie is that it doesn't take its time to get started. However he escapes from the flight to track down Jenny with the help of Cindy (Rae Dawn Chong) who he grabs at the airport. They kidnap Jenny to force John Matrix to fly down to that country to assassinate the president. One of his former group Bennett (Vernon Wells) joins warlord Arius (Dan Hedaya) to start a coup in his home country. John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger) was an elite special op who is now retired living in his mountain home with his daughter Jenny (Alyssa Milano). All close ups of the pole in Bennett's ( Vernon Wells) stomach are gone.The shot of the piece of wood sticking through Cooke's stomach is absent.The shot of Matrix snapping Henriques neck is gone. When Matrix breaks Henriques' ( Charles Meshack) neck on the plane, he simply elbows him, and in the next shot, Henrqiues is already dead.In the opening scene, after Cooke ( Bill Duke) has initially shot the man in the robe, he walks over to the body and shoots him again.In this version additional edits include, but are not limited to: The heavily edited 2001 UK DVD version, with a total of 56 seconds removed, was also used as the master for the initial Australian DVD release. All cuts were fully waived in 2007 by the BBFC (although it was not released until 2015). The 2001 UK DVD release retained these cuts and also added a further 44 seconds of distributor cuts this was because the DVD master used for the UK release was a censored German/Scandinavian version. The original UK cinema and video versions were censored by around 15 seconds, and removed the shots where Matrix ( Arnold Schwarzenegger) slices off the soldier's arm with the machete as well as Bennett's death to remove a shot of the pipe in his chest and the tracking shot of it sticking from his body. ![]()
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