Arnold spits the best 1 liners. “Don't disturb my friend, he's dead tired.”

This is literally everything I want from a movie: an unstoppable god with ridiculous violence. Must be why I'm drawn to Seagal. Commando is definitely one of my favorite movies ever

Quick aviation fact: A Boeing 727 (the plane Arny jumps from) usually leaves the ground at about 150 knots or 173 mph. And climbs at around 2,000 feet per minute. I looked up the jump scene and counted how many second it took him to jump. It was 9 seconds. So, not accounting for further acceleration or any abnormalities in the planes climb performance, Arnold would have fallen with a horizontal velocity of about 150 mph and from about 300 feet. Good thing that bush was there to save his life!

Can't believe you left out one of the greatest one liners of all time.... ""I let him go"" I couldn't stop laughing as a kid hahahah

My sister and I watched this movie religiously back in the day(late 80's early 90's) Sometimes multiple times per day. We wore that tape out. To this day we can quote the entire movie at any give time. Commando is the GOAT of 80's action movies.

Commando is just action perfection, it will never be equalled. Check out the director’s cut for its extended, more bloody toolshed sequence! Can’t believe it never got a sequel but to be fair, it didn’t need one. Predator must follow...

For real; Arnold helping young Alyssa on set with her algebra homework is spectacularly wholesome.

Bennetts vest is actually a WW2 British Airborne string vest. It’s designed to trap a layer of dry air between garments and is made from one piece of cotton string so you can unravel it and weave into rope. It’s an odd choice but I’m guessing the costume designer wanted something different for the character.

My favorite lines from Commando are what Matrix says to Sully before he kills him and the general following in his wake saying "Matrix."I also like how the whole assassination plot doesn't really play into the movie once Matrix escapes from the plane.

Yeah, awesome! The most 80s Arnold movie ever made. This is such a guilty pleasure for me. Oh, and Cindy is really useful operating that rocket launcher. Rumors have it that they also filmed a "romantic" scene, but Arnold and her had so little chemistry that they cut it out. Arnold has way more chemistry with that Freddie Mercury dude, after all.

Arnold is literally the polar opposite of Steven seagal

I love Commando. It's so absurd it's great, and has some of Arnold's best one-liners too. The various technical gaffes (like the clearly visible wire holding Sully up during the cliff scene) add to the charm. 14:20 Apparently Arnold wanted to beat the guy with his own severed arm, but wasn't allowed to. Supposedly the role of Bennett was going to be played by Wings Hauser but he was replaced at the last minute by Vernon Wells. Looks like they gave Wells Hauser's chain mail instead of knitting a new one for him. Wells was a pretty intimidating bad guy in Mad Max 2, but in Commando he's totally camp.

I saw this as a kid in 1986, it's one of my favorite movies. The film is clever with how little time it wastes compared to similar movies. The plot has been done before and since: super specialist has important person kidnapped and is forced to do a job for a bad guys, eventually they save their loved one probably. In a normal version, the hero wastes a whole bunch of time doing the job they don't want to do, or almost doing it, or sabotaging it, or whatever. In this movie, Matrix wastes almost no time. When the first bad guy tries to make an offer, he kills him immediately and rolls a truck down a hill. When he has no choice he goes to the airport but then kills his keeper and JUMPS OFF THE FREAKING PLANE! This gives the movie a ticking clock with the airplane and Arnold has an extremely clear and direct series of objectives 1) Find where his daughter is. 2) Get guns. 3) Get there. 4) Kill them all. All the while the film keeps a good sense of humor about it's absurdity. A great cast and the film has no shame about its one liners. It may not be the best Arnold film, but it's the most Arnold film.

If I ever get dropped off of a cliff, I'm definitely shouting "ooh, lah lah!!" on the way the down, hoping my killer gets the reference.

You left out my favorite Arnie line in the movie. The scene is at the end, on the beach, when Arnie sees the army arrive. Officer: "Did you leave anything for us?" Arnie: "Just bodies."

Fun fact Arnold's co-star rae dawn chong discovered Chris Pratt and he would go on to marry Arnold Schwarzenegger's daughter.

Fun fact : Freddie Mercury on steroids is also Wez from *Mad Max 2* _The Road Warrior_ . He's the crazy biker guy with the pink mohawk who had the golden-haired boyfriend guy that rode on the back of his motorcycle. Wez is the one who went crazy when his boyfriend got killed by the Feral Kid throwing his metal boomerang into the boyfriend's head. The Lord Humungus had to knock Wez out via bear-hug. Wez was the secondary main villain in the Road Warrior-- after the Lord Humungus. He also reprised his role as Wez in Weird Science. I believe he was in the party scene.🙂

Fun fact Rae Dawn Chong is Tommy Chong's daughter! So this could be called "Schwarzenegger & Chong Go All Commando" in a parallel universe

An army buddy of mine loved this movie and Elvis Presley. He had the bedroom poster for Commando, with Arnie in full costume and geared up to the nines. He also had an Elvis Presley calendar with some great pix of the King. On Elvis's birthday he threw a party to celebrate. He had cut one of the Elvis faces out of the calendar and taped it to the Commando poster and it is...*chef's kiss* a perfect fit. The pose, the proportions, the light. A sight to behold. I still have it 30 years later.

That time when coming out of the cinema you're excited for the next action flick you'll watch next week. It was so fun being a kid of the 80s.

15:23 the funniest part is how he brushed off the electricution and continued hitting Matrix. Electrocution was a classic 80s death so it was unexpected.

Arnold is just such a delightful person on and off movie sets. I remember at one point some years ago I saw something on social media where he stood up for Paralympics champions and competitors against someone who made some very disparaging and dehumanizing comments towards them about, "Not being real athletes." Arnold didn't insult or name call this person, but instead echoed his disappointment in the commenter while bolstering the athleticism of those who do compete in the Paralympics. He really is a class act. I think that joke he made about the egg-thrower owing him bacon also illustrates how good-natured and in control of his own emotions he is. He doesn't need to beat the hell out of a guy to make his point, even though he could. I haven't seen very many of his films, but he has my infinite respect and admiration for his moral character and integrity on top of the movies of his I have seen, Conan the Barbarian being my favorite of his work.

For the longest time I loved and wanted to have Bennets badass "Chain mail vest" he wears. Only to look closer later and realize it was Knitted together out of cotton wool.

Commando is a rarity: both comedy gold AND a solid action flick. Standout parts of Commando for me were: 1. In the final battle at the Island mansion, you see Matrix using like an M60 chain gun, and bad guys are actually falling down 'dead' when he isn't even aiming the gun at them. 2. When he uses claymore (antipersonel) mines to blow a barracks building up... and looking at the blatant shop dummies dressed as soldiers during the explosion bit. 3. The yellow Porsche that miraculously repairs itself after it has crashed. 4. Everything. This film is amazing!

Bennett the man who got electrocuted during a fight then said he feels good afterwards and got a power boost out of it. What a legend!

Freeze-frame the long distance shot when Arnie jumps from the plane. He becomes an awful stick-figure silhouette worthy of an Atari 2600 video game 😮

To this day, I'm wondering what went through James Horners' head while writing the music for this movie and what his approach was. He either took absolutely none of this seriously or *every single molecule of breath he took* seriously! He either just decided to have a boadload of fun with this and just heaped all of these performances on top of each other or took it as an intellectual challenge to just write the most complex 80s Action Music possible (or he just got drunk and locked himself in the recoding studio, laughing manically). Listening to the Album again recently, I found myself considering all three options. But one thing is certain: _It sounds absolutely badass!..._ like Alan Silvestris' "Delta Force" in that special 80s-kind of way, of course. ;)

12:53 Cindy is a good partner and very useful. She just broke him out from police custody, she will also help him deduce where they are holding his daughter, fly him there, and call the cavalry.

The guy he lied to was also the guy who was the main baddie in "The Warriors" and sang the iconic, "Warriors......come out to plaaaay-aaaaaaaayyyy," song. He was also T-bird in "The Crow."

Thats how action movies should be, no political correctness, no love story, just 90 minutes of arnie on rampage.. love it, awesome video as always 👍👍

God I miss the 80s

I love that he took the time to camo paint his whole body before the final assault, just in case he has to go on fighting shirtless he will still blend into stuff...? Which turned out to be great planning on his part because he just so happens to have to take his vest off in the shed and finish the movie shirtless. Arnold thinks of everything

"Remember when I said I'd review you for last? I Lied"

80s ultimate classic action perfection easy mode: check infinite health: check all weapons unlocked: checked enemy respawn: checked this's not Toys R Us this's Guns R Us Masterpiece

That chainmail vest was not pipe proof.

The end of this movie is the greatest action set piece ever its so excessive and over the top I love it.

In the shed scene, Arnold was supposed to punch the guy he cuts his arm with his own arm plus a one liner (like "stop crying" or something). But they think it was maybe too much and removed it. What a shame !

One of the best movies ever made.

Unbelievable that you skipped the "I let him go" one-liner.

I remember watching this on a plane back from LA when we lost to New England in the Divisional playoffs.

Vernon Wells who played Bennet was brought in at the last minute after the previous actor left/got fired (who knows), and they didn't have time to adjust the costume. Lets just say Vernon is a little bigger than the previous guy was... But this and Rambo are the epitome of 80's action.

"Is SHE the Predator?!" No, but she did play something even bigger and more horrifying three years after Predator.

Arnie doing a huge elbow strike on the guy on the plane, chair and body flying back then a neck break and people less than a metre away didn't notice a thing, always cracks me up!

You forgot the BEST LINE he ever did which was in this movie.."My friend is dead tired" The guy on the plane ;)

Man goes on a kill streak from his house to the island, greatest movie ever

I love that at 11:58 Cindy holds the rocket launcher the wrong way around but when she shoots it's in the correct position xD

The arnold impression at the end is priceless XD

This movie is 100 tons of awesome in an 85 ton bag. I remember very clearly seeing it on VHS for the first time with my dad, one night when my mom was out of the house. I was probably...five, maybe six years old, and my dad asked, "do you want to watch a REALLY GREAT MOVIE? All right, we will--but you have to promise to never, ever tell your mother I let you watch it." Thus began my love of Arnold Schwarzenegger films. Even the worst Arnold action flick is better than most of the stuff released these days.

I love your channel! This movie means a lot to me

Commando it's basically an over the top remake of Cold Sweat with Charles Bronson (based on Richard Matheson's book Ride the Nightmare). Well, tbh I guess it isn't really, but the similarities are there, quite big actually. Plus I believe - and I'm not joking - that Bennett was indeed homosexual and in love/hate with Matrix. Doesn't matter if Lester says otherwise. But de Souza wasn't too sure...

I need to take a minute and thank you for this channel: my girlfriend and I just discovered it and we are binging your reviews. Tenouttaten, really impressed with how quickly you hit your stride as a creator! This is so fun. Cheers, and subbed!

One of my all time favourite 80s action flicks! I always wished they would have explained Matrix is a super soldier because some of the stuff he does is straight redonculous.

"I lied". Schwarzenegger and his lines

My favorite part of this whole movie is when they're driving Sully's yellow porsche, the driver's side (that it landed and slid on) has no real damage at all. Not a scratch on that baby! Where can I get a paint job like THAT?? xD

I always wondered, wouldn't there have been like a meat plug that would have been launched out of the pipe that Bennett got impaled by?

Hilarious review, as always, thanks so much for these! You forgot to mention Sully's magic self-repairing Porsche though.

Reason Bennett was kicked out of the team is, he shouted "I don´t need the girl!" in the showers.

13:11 - LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!, best joke in this video, you didnt even say like on a teenage girl's wall, you specified your wall

Vernon Wells was rejected for the role of “Bennett,” but they called him back from Australia six weeks into production as the replacement. That’s why his outfit didn’t look right on him. He was wearing another actors clothing that was too small and didn’t have time for a proper fitting.

The actor for "Bennit" said the clothes didn't properly fit because they were made for the original actor and he was brought in at the last min to take the role.

The response from Arnold after the egg clip had me on the floor.

Hang on. Alyssa Milano was like 12 when this was filmed. She was taking Algebra in the 6th grade? I doubt that

I'm not picking your latest movie to make a comment caus I know you will see it regardless, but I just wanted to tell you something you already knew. You're doing a superb job with your reviews and thx for the laughter, I'm really enjoying your videos man. If you got questions on guns, lemme know ill help as much as I can,..which should be a lot :P

Ah, my favorite ah-nuld movie. Mostly non stop over the top action.

The final boss looking and dressing like Freddie Mercury always has me in bits 😆😆😆

This was awesome. Laughed way to much at the end with your Arnold impersonation.

Me and the GF have been on a ‘good-bad 80s action movie’ binge recently. This, Predator, T2. All the good Arnies. Daft classics.

Mate you've got me crying over here. Thanks for the awesome review.

Greatest comedy of the 80's. I always loose it when Arnold paddles to Mercenary Island in his undies. Because stealth is key.

This flick has such tight pacing that every time I sit down with it feels like only 45 minutes have passed.

The guy at the start who says "you can't kill me" and Arnold says "wrong" and kills him 👌

Oh my days, best review I've seen so far. Ever since I saw this film at the cinema upon its release (I was 15) I've ALWAYS wanted to know what was on that sandwich. But really, what the hell was on that sandwich? For some reason, I've always imagined it was hummus. Is there any way we can find out? Personally I like a hummus and red bell pepper sandwich on wholemeal bread, but I can imagine it may not be to Colonel Matrix's palate (I dread to think what happened to that deer). I know that this film is silly, ridiculous and absurd, but I have a genuine soft spot for it. The weird music, the plastic log at the beginning, the beguiling, mysterious sandwich, the vest and moustache combo (obviously), Arnie rowing a boat, the garden shed massacre, and finally Bennett letting off steam. I'm loving but still exploring your channel... have you done Rambo: First Blood part II yet? In the same way that Rocky was a well-written and acted, gritty, credible film and then all of the other Rocky films became increasingly daft, so it was with First Blood. The first film, based on David Morrell's novel, was mesmerizingly engaging, with brilliant acting by everyone throughout, and the following films in the franchise were bizarrely silly. I'm sure I'm preaching to the converted, but I have to say, Rambo II has some hilarious scenes. And here's a peculiar thing: Commando and Rambo II were both released in 1985. Commando had Bennett, and Rambo II had Steven Berkoff as Lt Col Podovsky. I can't help wondering whether Sly and Arnie were having a bit of a competition with each other to see who could come up with the campest villain that year. Keep on keeping on!

The opening credits are hilarious, it's like a spaghetti western / sitcom or something lol

my new favorite channel. as an 80z kid., this hits GOOD :) right in the feelz . you are Great !

Yes! Commando

Just remembered there's an unofficial Russian remake of Commando called *D-Day* (Den D) that came out in 2008. Might be worth trying to track down.

Love the channel! Okay, I may get a ton of negative feedback but what if you roasted the hell out of the Fast and Furious series? There's enough ridiculous action to roast at least for 2 and a half months lol.

How do you not have at least a million subs with such hilarious content 😂

Thank you RedEye, this is such a Joel Silver movie! I think it's even more testosterone-drunk than "Invasion USA". Chain mail vest guy is Vernon Wells from "The Road Warrior" ( I wasn't sure until I heard his accent) - so at least this time it's not butt-less chaps... 9:47 When all the security guards throw themselves backwards in unison, it's like an Esther Williams water ballet!

RedEye, your videos are fantastic - I bingewatch them like you do Seagals movies, so we dont have to. Thanks for that. I do not understand how you can possibly only have16,8K subscribers. You must have just recently started and I am certain this will change with this quality content. Cheers mate.

Just stumbled on to the channel and was hooked. Love the videos. The hit men didn't use the garbage truck in the opening scene is they wanted people to find the bodies so the helicopter guy leads them to Matrix. Otherwise the garbage truck would have been a great place for the body.

6:39 Don't forget the one-liner! 9:21 The Galleria is also mentioned in Total Recall. It's practically part of the Arnie mythos. 10:42 Ooh! La LAAAA!! 11:35 How'd he know about the secret stash? Also, gun shops in California?! Ah, but this was the '80s. See also 'The Terminator'. 11:41 If they had to limit their choices for weight and space, rather than grabbing everything, they should definitely go for that Galil ARM. That alone will do most of the work they need done. It even has a wire cutter built into its bipod AND a bottle opener built into its forearm! 11:46 Theatrical rendition ("prop" simply means "property") of an M202 FLASH. Though technically a rocket launcher, it's specialized for use with incendiary munitions. In the movie, it's more of a pyrotechnic device. 11:55 It's actually impossible to confuse front and back on the M202 FLASH due to the way the grips and trigger are shaped. 11:58 Just noticed a continuity error. She's holding it backwards right there... 12:00 ...now she's holding it facing forward. Also, it should be recoilless. Note: Wait, no. I get it. I get it. That's just the way you cut the scenes together in editing. 12:01 It would have vaporized everyone inside and melted the van's moving parts together. In movies, they treat all demolition devices like they're HE-frag. Except HE-frag grenade which are more like fireworks (real ones are more like omnidirectional shotgun shells). 13:13 A straight guy would use that as a motivational poster. 13:21 His best weapon, in terms of overall tactical utility, is that Valmet M78/83 (also seen briefly in 'Predator' since that movie was supplied by the same theatrical arms company). One gripe, though. Only in movies do people wear hand grenades haphazardly like that, all hanging from D-rings and jiggling around and whatnot. In reality, hand grenades are worn in pouches on a vest rig. 13:58 Shoulder that LMG and use those sights, greenhorn! Respect the Valmet! Btw, that's the Finnish version of the Russian RPK. 14:17 Circular saw blade. Or cut-off saw blade. Basically a shuriken combined with a frisbee. It would inflict pain, but wouldn't kill effectively in real-world terms. 14:24 If you splice music and sound effects from Contra into that scene, it fits perfectly. I certainly wasn't the first to do that.

Missed opportunity for some Mr Freeze in that Arnie supercut. 🥶

“This green berets gonna kick your big ass” “I eat green berets for breakfast and right now I’m very hungry”...this film was my childhood

Very funny stuff, really enjoyed. Oh yeah, and the code is 133, he pressed 3 twice 🧐😜

I loved the line about Arnold's glutes being 'ripply airbags'. Seriously funny writing. : )

The answer is yes Redeye. A trained person can tell the difference between the firing sound of AK variants and the M16 and its variants. I recommend Brandon Herrera's channel for all your AK entertainment. New to your channel but loving it. Not a suggesting for the channel but The Hand of Death is a classic for me. Jackie Chan looks like he's 18 and is still a support character at this point. If I had to sum up the movie? Every scene is either a fight scene or the lead up to the next fight scene lol.

So I am not sure if this is related but here's a story: Love your channel, I'm ALWAYS entertained. But I haven't seen all of them yet. Just saw this today, and the intro leaped out at me, you saying "GOOOOOOOD morning movie buffs" and it immediately reminded me of Epic Rap Battles, Richard Pryor vs George Carlin. If that was intentional, standing ovation for you, sir. If it was not intentional, I suggest you check that video out, because there's a moment where a certain comedian says a certain famous tagline in a certain way. Anyway, you rock, thanks for all your videos! Edit: I just got Rick Roll'd, and I fucking love it. You beautiful bastard, you.

One of Schwarzenegger's best movies

Ribbing Vernon Wells about his mesh shirt is kinda hilarious. Due to this movie and his character in the road warrior he's become a gay icon. When asked he claims that his character in road warrior was not a gay leather daddy but a father figure to the lady man that ride on the back of his bike until his untimely demise due to a razor sharp boomerang.

Oh Man. Rick Rolled. Touche' Douche"

My favorite line from this movie is one they didn't actually say. I just can't help hearing Sully clinking some soda bottles and saying 'Ma-ha-trix, come out and pla-hay."

When I was unemployed, depressed and stoned in 2019 i would watch this awesome flick twice a week.

There's a Russian remake of this, called "Day D". Really worth watching for a person who still gets a good entertainment from the original.

Thanks for the snippet from Arnie quotes pt1.

We'll forgive you for the Rick Roll, because Commando is that awesome. "What happened to Sully?" "I let him go." Classic!

To this day I wish a stranger would fall asleep next to me on a plane so I could stop a cabin crew member and say "Don't disturb my friend, he's dead tired".

I love that the movie implies the pipe goes through the guy and into the boiler behind him so steam comes out. That would mean Arnold threw that pipe hard enough, to go through "chain mail", a mans rib cage, spine, organs, then chain mail again, and then the steel wall of a boiler AND ... there is somehow no meat-plug in the pipe.

GOOOOOOOOOD MOOOORNING, VIETNAM!

Bruhh, the Mythbusters part tho... 😆