Starring: Dolph Lundgren, Melissa Ann Smith

Directed by: Dolph Lundgren

So today at Best Buy, I picked up Dolph’s new Direct-To-DVD movie, “Command Performance”.

Here is my review:

Plot/Synopsis: Joe’s rock n’ roll band is about to open a huge show in Russia for an American pop star, named, Venus. Joe is a drummer for the band which his band just got offered a record deal by Venus, the pop star. As Venus, hits the stage to perform, Russian terrorists began to take over the concert arena. Killing almost everyone including the audience at random. The terrorist holds Venus, the Russian President, and the presidents two little daughters hostage for ransom. Joe is the only civilian left in the concert arena and now it’s all up to him on how to survive. Joe also teams up with a Russian F.S.B. agent.

Only thing though, Joe won’t use guns because he is afraid of them, he would only fight with his bare hands. The reason is, he used to be in a biker gang in his past and his brother was murdered by Colombians in front of his face. Joe, now must rescue the hostages and kill the terrorist leader, Coleg.

Judging by the plot/synopsis of the film, I thought the film was going to be kind of stupid. I bought it ’cause I was a fan of Dolph and was curious to see it, ’cause it looked like a pretty good action ride.

It was a fun action movie, but it was more than that. It turned out to be a serious film, something like this can happen in real life. The film was shot with cheap 35mm cameras, very low budget film, it was paid for $4 million. The movie was actually shot in Russia.

I have never seen any of Dolph’s straight to DVD movies in the past, but I was actually pretty impressed with, “Command Performance”. It actually had a good story. It was pretty gripping and unpredictable in fact. Some impressive fight scenes and some humor throughout.

I can see that Dolph’s film making style is very similar to Sly Stallone, so you can tell that Dolph learned his film making from Sly mostly. Just because a movie goes straight to DVD doesn’t mean it’s bad. It’s not that the studio doesn’t want it go to theater. Maybe the director, Dolph, doesn’t care to make it go to theater. Dolph just makes movies just for the love of making movies, not caring if his movies go to theater or not.

I kind of wished this movie DID get a nationwide theater release ’cause I can see this film doing well in the box office. Oh well, I’m sure this film will sell well on DVD anyways.

Dolph is gonna do great in “The Expendables” when that movie hits theaters. It’s going to be awesome to see Dolph back on the big screen finally when “Expendables” hits the theater.

Dolph’s “Command Performance” kicks total ass. I fuckin’ loved it! Great work Dolph!

Score for “Command Performance” = **** (4 stars as in “Excellent”)

Kev