Greetings From Val Verde: The Man From Hong Kong Revisits COMMANDO

While the recent return to the big screen by Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Last Stand wasn’t quite the movie we hoped for, the news that he should be returning for further installments of The Terminator and Conan series does keep the Forces of Geek gang quite excited.


So, we thought it was a prime time to take a look back at one of Arnold’s under-appreciated movies, one that certainly helped cement his position as one of the premier action heroes of the 80’s & 90’s when he headlined Commando.


The film was released in the mid 80’s and while the American poster screamed “Lets Party,” over in the UK we were given the far more generic tag line “Somewhere, Somehow, Someone’s Gotta Pay!” ("Let’s Party", didn’t have quite the same meaning in the UK at least back then.)

Directed by Mark L. Lester, the film starred Arnold along with Alyssa Milano, Rae Dawn Chong and Vernon Wells. The movie delivered a roller coaster ride of gratuitous violence and one liners upon its initial release, but is all too often neglected when people look back at Arnold’s cinematic hits.

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