Never has a film been so blatant about it's homosexual subtext, Matrix and Bennett are one step away from hatefucking each other.
In fact, if I ever go back to school, my thesis will detail how the late twentieth/early twenty-first century embracing of homosexuality stems from Vernon Wells' portrayal of this particular character. After I'm done, West Hollywood will be renamed "Vernon Wells." Where to even start... Bennett spends nearly the entire movie wearing the following outfit:
- Leather pants
- A black, sleeveless T-shirt
- A chain mail vest
- A large belt that turns said chain mail into a little skirt
- Fingerless leather gloves
- A dog chain choker
- A flat top
- A push broom moustache
- A leather belt that he wore around the chain mail vest, making it seem as if he were wearing a skirt. Yes, I stated this point earlier, but holy fuck does it need repeating.
Seriously bors...men fucking is straighter.
Commando almost features more murders than it does homosexual innuendos. Almost. 146 people are shot, blown up, stabbed, scalped, dropped off cliffs and mutilated, and fully 138 of those onscreen deaths happen during a four-minute time frame. Four fucking minutes! Without doubt the bloodiest four minutes in the history of film, easily trumping the even finale of the great Death Wish 3. I n one particularly noteworthy sequence, Schwarzenegger's John Matrix character manages to commit five murders using a pitchfork, an axe, a machete and two circular saw blades--all within the span of twenty seconds.
In fact, if I ever go back to school, my thesis will detail how the late twentieth/early twenty-first century embracing of homosexuality stems from Vernon Wells' portrayal of this particular character. After I'm done, West Hollywood will be renamed "Vernon Wells." Where to even start... Bennett spends nearly the entire movie wearing the following outfit:
- Leather pants
- A black, sleeveless T-shirt
- A chain mail vest
- A large belt that turns said chain mail into a little skirt
- Fingerless leather gloves
- A dog chain choker
- A flat top
- A push broom moustache
- A leather belt that he wore around the chain mail vest, making it seem as if he were wearing a skirt. Yes, I stated this point earlier, but holy fuck does it need repeating.
Seriously bors...men fucking is straighter.
Commando almost features more murders than it does homosexual innuendos. Almost. 146 people are shot, blown up, stabbed, scalped, dropped off cliffs and mutilated, and fully 138 of those onscreen deaths happen during a four-minute time frame. Four fucking minutes! Without doubt the bloodiest four minutes in the history of film, easily trumping the even finale of the great Death Wish 3. I n one particularly noteworthy sequence, Schwarzenegger's John Matrix character manages to commit five murders using a pitchfork, an axe, a machete and two circular saw blades--all within the span of twenty seconds.
