When was the movie commando made

The Australian actor was a last minute addition to the cast. The Austrian action hero was initially dubious of his newly hired co-star. Determined to convince his counterpart that he was up to the task, Wells emphatically threw himself into the role.

Though Schwarzenegger was still developing his acting chops, Commando offered a formula that would serve the star well throughout his career - namely, the development of timely one-liners. I lied. Watch the Famous "I lied" scene from 'Commando'. Throughout the film, Matrix throws bad guys off of cliffs, impales them with table legs, breaks their necks and shoots to kill.

But during the shoot, Mark, the director, saw a sneak preview of Rambo [ First Blood Part 2 ] and realized how many people get killed in that. He can carry an entire tree on his shoulder, pick up a phone booth with a person inside it, and jump off planes in mid-air without getting a scratch.

And Arnold was the reason it got made. Not the movie they made! Then I drove to his house and acted it out for him. Arnold gave me this Terminator look. I do this picture. I had only done Conan and Terminator , but now I got to play a gentle, loving father. He is also a fighting machine that will not stop until his objective is complete. I read many magazines that deal with soldiers of fortune. But nothing clicked, until Rae Dawn came along. My first reading with Arnold was this weird scene where he pulls a dildo out of my handbag.

Was Arnold embarrassed about the dildo? Not even slightly. He also, for no apparent reason, teams up with an air stewardess named Cindy. It is one of a kind. Nowadays, with computers, they could have just added me in. He had a giant semi-truck filled with weights and these bodybuilding guys hanging around him all the time.

Arnold loves practical jokes and I became the brunt for many of them. One time he and his friends took all the jacks out of from the back of my trailer, so when I sat on the couch the whole trailer capsized. Arnie thought that was very funny. Dan Hedaya Arius as Arius. Vernon Wells Bennett as Bennett.

David Patrick Kelly Sully as Sully. Bill Duke Cooke as Cooke. Drew Snyder Lawson as Lawson. Sharon Wyatt Leslie as Leslie. Michael DeLano Forrestal as Forrestal. Bob Minor Jackson as Jackson. Lenny Juliano Soldier as Soldier. Charles Meshack Henriques as Henriques. Mark L. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. A retired special agent named John Matrix led an elite unit and has left the armed forces to live in a secluded mountain home with his daughter Jenny.

But now he is forced out of retirement when his daughter is kidnapped by a band of thugs intent on revenge! Unbeknownst to Matrix, the members of his former unit are being killed one by one. Matrix learns that Bennett, a former member of his Matrix' unit who was presumed dead has kidnapped him to try to force Matrix to do a political assassination for a man called Arius who calls himself El Presidente , a warlord formerly bested by Matrix who wishes to lead a military coup in his home country.

Since Arius will have Jenny killed if Matrix refuses, Matrix reluctantly accepts the demand. If there's a mission that no man could survive Did you know Edit. Goofs When Matrix crashes his car while chasing Sully, neither Matrix nor Cindy are affected by the crash even though neither are wearing seat belts Cindy isn't even in a seat!

Alternate versions 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.

All cuts were fully waived in by the BBFC although it was not released until In this version additional edits include, but are not limited to: 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 reality, the greater share of the movie sees Matrix at large in a fantastical version of Los Angeles, where mall cops can be thrown down escalators and shots fired in a shopping precinct without an armed response team being called, and where local gun shops have missile launchers and colossal military-grade machine guns secured out back.

He cackles and sneers his way through the role of Bennett, a mercenary with an axe to grind with John Matrix. Nominal villain Arius barely gets a look-in, probably because Lester realized that the Matrix-Bennett smackdown is where the gold lies. Lester himself later said that he regarded Commando as an intentionally over-the-top piece of Warholian pop-art.

The level of violence in Commando resulted in several scenes being trimmed on its UK release. The most significant edits were made to the scene where Schwarzenegger uses a garden shed full of tools — rakes, axes, circular saw blades — to murder a bunch of unsuspecting soldiers.