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Dom Robinson reviews

Commando

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If there's a list of films that deserve a remix in Dolby Digital 5.1, Commando must be among them, but it hasn't been.

In this 80s classic Arnie actioner, the man plays Col. John Matrix, the retired head of a special Commando strike team, but as luck would have it he still has a few enemies in the form of Arius (Dan Hedaya) and Bennett (Vernon Wells) who begin the film by having his friends killed off and step up to kidnapping by taking away his little daughter Jenny (Alyssa Milano, then a mere 12 years old before blossoming into the stunner of today in Melrose Place and Charmed).

While Stallone was out kicking butt in Vietnam in Rambo: First Blood Part 2, Arnie was taking out the trash by hooking up with stewardess Cindy (Rae Dawn Chong), for which the back cover states she's "feisty", but is more like wimpy.

From the moment he gets a visit from his old Major General, Franklin Kirby (James Olson), trouble comes to his house. People fire at Arnie and miss, Arnie fires back and scores a direct hit. Throw in car chases and multiple explosions whenever you like and the adrenaline would be pumping if it had a soundtrack to match it.

There's also stacks of one-liners, beginning with a man who's entered Arnie's house and sitting calmly in a chair explaining how his daughter's been kidnapped and that the only way to get her back is to co-operate. "Right?", asks the cool customer. "Wrong.", replies Arnie - gun in hand - and blows the guy's brains out.


Alyssa

Alyssa Milano, yesterday.


The film is presented in the original 1.85:1 widescreen ratio and is anamorphic. It's a reasonable transfer with no obvious artifacts, but it's far from outstanding. The average bitrate is 6.21b/s, often peaking over 7Mb/s.

As for the sound, oh dear. I said it could use a Dolby Digital 5.1 remix, but even a decent surround soundmix would be nice. What we've been given here is so quiet I had to turn my Sony STR-DB930 amp up to nearly halfway to get some enjoyment out of it and even the dialogue is slightly out of sync at times.

The only extra is a 2-minute 4:3 trailer that you'll watch once. There are 24 chapters to the film which is fine and subtitles in 11 languages: English for the hard of hearing, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese and Swedish. Menus are static and silent.

As a standalone DVD, it's not worth the full asking price and deserves more of a budget pricing.

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Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2001.

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