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• The original UK cinema and video versions were censored by 12 secs in the scene where Arnie hides out in a garden shed. We no longer see him chop a man's arm off with a machete. There was also a brief cut in the final showdown, where a tracking shot of a pole in a man's stomach has been removed (the UK laserdisc version however was uncut). The 2001 DVD release retained all the previous cuts and also added a further 26 secs of distributor edits, editing most of the violence in the action scenes and heavily shortening the deaths of Bennett and Cooke. This is due to the DVD master used being a censored European disc. The cuts were fully waived in 2007 by the BBFC.
  
  
• The Australian 'Definitive Edition' DVD two-disc set from Fox contains both the US unrated version (finally), as well as the censored theatrical release version, which was cut to get a US R rating. The US unrated version restores all violence to the garden shed scene and footage previously noted by others. R4 DVDs of Commando released before the 2007 Definitive Edition set either contain the butchered R2 version, or the cut for MPAA theatrical version.
  
  
• German TV version as well as the rental video were edited in order to reduce violence. DVD release is uncut.
  
  
• The movie was banned twice for Swedish cinema. Then another distributor picked up the film, cut the film by 15 min. and released it on video. TV version was uncut.
  
  
• Australian DVD release is edited, as it's a transfer from UK version. One of the cuts is when Matrix breaks the guy's neck in the plane. Matrix just hits him and at the end he's dead. The original Australian version is uncut.
  
  
• On US TV versions of the film, the garden shed shootout scene only shows one soldier shooting the shed instead of the large group of soldiers as the original version shows.
  
  
• The Australian DVD release, although rated R18, cuts the sequence where Matrix slices off a soldier's arm in the garden shed and also shortens the shot of Cooke impaled on the wooden spike. However, the shot of the top of the soldier's head being sliced off in the garden shed is kept in. This is due to the DVD master used being a censored European disc. The Australian theatrical and video releases, also rated R18, are uncut.
  
  
• The Australian DVD version also has the arm-hacking scene cut, as well as the axe to the groin of a soldier and the close-up of the pole in Bennett's stomach.
  
  
• In the Australian DVD, The Garbage Truck scene, has been edited. In the Uncut version after both bad guys shoot the old soldier, Cooke shoots him again. This has been cut, they both shoot then it cuts to Cooke taking his gun away, with no bullets heard.
  
  

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