History Film / DDay

-> "You're quite the funnyman. I assure you that you'll die ''hilariously''."
--> '''Ivan to Stasik'''

In case you're wondering if we're describing the plot of the Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger classic, "''Film/{{Commando}}''"... '''wrong'''. We're actually discussing the plot of ''D-Day'' a.k.a ''Phantom Commando'' / ''Russian Commando'', an unofficial, unauthorized 2008 ForeignRemake of the 1980s Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger classic, directed by and starring Mikhail Porechenkov. A fan of the original film, ''D-Day'' is Mikhail's pet project, though less of a tribute than a frame-by-frame recreation of entire scenes.

** The remake have Zhenya imprisoned on a third-floor building with the only exit bolted from the other side, justifying the lax security the mooks have over their hostage - Zhenya have to trick a minion to leave behind a knife and cut an improvised ladder from some rope in the room. In the original Jenny was locked on the ground floor with barely any security save for a flimsy back wall, for no reason other than just because she can escape in the climax.

** Due to changing the setting from a supermarket to a waterpark, Stasik and his contact makes their deal in swimming trunks (their counterparts Sully and the Latin Man in the original is fully-clothed while making their deal in a shopping mall, obviously). Also Stasik dies ''nude''.

* BloodierAndGorier: Zig-zagged - this remake has far more squibs used in the final shootout, where mooks killed by Ivan bleeds HighPressureBlood. The henchman who gets ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice (equivalent to Cooke in the original) also has plenty of blood around his body with a pool of red underneath him, as with Ryzhyi's Japanese henchman (a new character absent in the original) getting blown to LudicrousGibs via Ivan's GrenadeLauncher. However, the original film's toolshed scene where John hacks off limbs and scalp mooks is AdaptedOut, and [[spoiler:Ryzhyi dies in a bloodless explosion unlike Arius who gets pumped full of holes]].

* UnwillingSuspension: After being captured alive the first time, Ivan was interrogated while being hung the ceiling with Gelda holding on the rope. In contrast, the original have John chained up.

Major Ivan Vanya [[note]] Russian equivalent of "John", [[SarcasmMode how original]] [[/note]], former paratrooper of the Russian armed forces, now retired and a single father to his daughter Zhenya, was unexpectedly dragged back into action when mercenaries attacks his cabin home. Abducting Ivan and Zhenya, turns out their assailiants are working for Ivan's old enemy, Senator Ryzhyi, a former dictator of Estonia who was overthrown by Ivan years ago. Just like the original film, Ivan was co-erced into a mission to assasinate the current Estonian President, in exchange for his daughter's life, but after escaping Ivan then enlists the assistance of a stewardess named Aliya to rescue his daughter.

** The father-daughter bonding in the opening is different in both versions, where Ivan and Zhenya enjoys a ride across the wilderness instead of John and Jenny feeding deers and eating ice-cream. Zhenya is also far more active and a bit of an OutdoorsyGal compared to Jenny from the original.

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In case you're wondering if we're describing the plot of the Schwarzenegger classic, "''Film/{{Commando}}''"... '''wrong'''. We're actually discussing the plot of ''D-Day'' a.k.a ''Phantom Commando'' / ''Russian Commando'', an unofficial, unauthorized 2008 ForeignRemake of the 1980s Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger classic, directed by and starring Mikhail Porechenkov. A fan of the original film, ''D-Day'' is Mikhail's pet project, though less of a tribute than a frame-by-frame recreation of entire scenes.

The movie begins with a series of assassinations, including an unnamed man getting shot by murderers disguised as garbage collectors and another blown up in a vehicular explosion. We get an introduction from our main character, in the middle of doing something badass before he's surprised by his little daughter - it turns out our hero is a former Special Forces member and RetiredBadass raising his child alone after the death of his unnamed wife before the movie's events. After a cutesy montage of the hero bonding with his daughter over the OP, the hero's former superior in the army unexpectedly pays him a visit, where it's revealed the victims killed in the prologue are the hero's former comrades in the Special Forces and that the hero is likely being targeted. The superior leaves behind some {{Red Shirt}}s to guard the hero, only for armed gunmen to suddenly attack and kill everyone before kidnapping the hero's daughter while leaving behind one of their own to "negotiate". The hero, not really in the mood to talk, [[AggressiveNegotiations shoots the negotiator]] (with a "wrong" as his short reply) before he was captured as well; forced into a mission to kill a benevolent politician, against his will (else his captors returns daughter "in pieces"), our hero managed to escape his captors by jumping off a plane, attain the help of a reluctant air stewardess, interrogate a henchman before dropping him to death, impale another and embark on a lengthy rescue mission that involves him killing 70 mooks in the villains' island hideout.
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* BloodierAndGorier: Zig-zagged - this remake has far more squibs used in the final shootout, where mooks killed by Ivan bleeds HighPressureBlood. The henchman who gets ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice (equivalent to Cooke in the original) also has plenty of blood around his body with a pool of red underneath him, as with Ryzhyi's Japanese henchman (a new character absent in the orinal) getting blown to LudicrousGibs via Ivan's GrenadeLauncher. However, the original film's toolshed scene where John hacks off limbs and scalp mooks is AdaptedOut, and [[spoiler:Ryzhyi dies in a bloodless explosion unlike Arius who gets pumped full of holes]].

* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunFight: Senator Ryzhyi's second-in-command, an unnamed Japanese Colonel, probably never heard of this trope. The climax have the Colonel confronting Ivan with a katana, despite Ivan ''carrying a grenade launcher'' on him and having killed 40-odd enemies with it. Upon being challenged, Ivan simply pulls the trigger and keeps going. TooDumbToLive is underselling it...

* RuleOfPool: As this remake replaces the supermarket scene with a waterpark, inevitably a fight breaks out with Ivan throwing one of the park's guards (clothes and all) into one of the pools.

** The only casualty in the waterpark chase is Stasik, courtesy of Ivan. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse The fate of Stasik's contact isn't even addressed]]. . Meanwhile, the original film's supermarket scene have a shootout happening, a couple of cops killed in the process and the Latin Man shot off a balcony.

** Ivan, after locating the villains' IslandBase, returns home to retrieve his cache of weapons, unlike John who raids a surplus store; this is due to heavy Russian restrictions on private firearms ownership.

** The remake have Zhenya imprisoned on a third-floor building with the only exit bolted from the other side, justifying the lax security the mooks have over their hostage - Zhenya have to trick a minion to leave behind a knife and cut an improvised ladder from some rope in the room. In the original Cindy was locked on the ground floor with barely any security save for a flimsy back wall, for no reason other than just because she can escape in the climax.

The movie begins with a series of assassinations, including an unnamed man getting shot by murderers disguised by garbage collectors and another blown up in a vehicular explosion. We get an introduction from our main character, in the middle of doing something badass before he's surprised by his little daughter - it turns out our hero is a former Special Forces member and RetiredBadass raising his child alone after the death of his unnamed wife before the movie's events. After a cutesy montage of the hero bonding with his daughter over the OP, the hero's former superior in the army unexpectedly pays him a visit, where it's revealed the victims killed in the prologue are the hero's former comrades in the Special Forces and that the hero is likely being targeted. The superior leaves behind some {{Red Shirt}}s to guard the hero, only for armed gunmen to suddenly attack and kill everyone before kidnapping the hero's daughter while leaving behind one of their own to "negotiate". The hero, not really in the mood to talk, [[AggressiveNegotiations shoots the negotiator]] (with a "wrong" as his short reply) before he was captured as well; forced into a mission to kill a benevolent politician, against his will (else his captors returns daughter "in pieces"), our hero managed to escape his captors by jumping off a plane, attain the help of a reluctant air stewardess, interrogate a henchman before dropping him to death, impale another and embark on a lengthy rescue mission that involves him killing 70 mooks in the villains' island hideout.

In case you're wondering if we're describing the plot of the Schwarzenegger classic, "''Film/{{Commando}}''"... '''wrong'''. We're actually discussing the plot of ''D-Day'' a.k.a ''Phantom Commando'' / ''Russian Commando'', an unofficial, unauthorized 2008 ForeignRemake of the 1980s ArnoldSchwarzenegger classic, directed by and starring Mikhail Porechenkov. A fan of the original film, ''D-Day'' is Mikhail's pet project, though less of a tribute than a frame-by-frame recreation of entire scenes.

** The original film's iconic "I like you, I'll kill you last" (spoken by John to Sully) was changed to "I promise you'll die hilariously" (spoken by Ivan to Stasik). John in the original doesn't fulfill his words ("ILied") but given Stasik was interrogated in ''swimming trunks'' and flung off a building with his trunks ripped off (and his nude corpse would soon be discovered by authorities), it's safe to say Ivan ''keeps his word''.

In case you're wondering if we're describing the plot of the Schwarzenegger classic, "''Film/{{Commando}}''"... '''wrong'''. We're actually discussing the plot of ''D-Day'' a.k.a ''Phantom Commando'' / ''Russian Commando'', an unofficial 2008 ForeignRemake of the 1980s classic directed by and starring Mikhail Porechenkov. A fan of the original film, ''D-Day'' is Mikhail's pet project, though less of a tribute than a frame-by-frame recreation of entire scenes.

-> "You're quite the funnyman. I assure you that you'll die ''hilariously."

* AdaptationExplaination:

** For Gelda (Russian Bennet), he ''fakes'' his death differently in the prologue, where he's taken out via CarBomb instead of a boat explosion. Towards the end, rather than getting skewered by a pipe like Bennet (with an awesome "Let off some steam!" BondOneLine to cap it off), [[spoiler:Gelda instead gets his knife shoved into his own throat, before getting his head dunked in caviar]].

* GoinAttack: While interrogating Stasik on a building's balcony, Ivan is dangling Stasik by the dong. In comparison, the original has John holding Sully by one leg (with his "weak arm").

The movie begins with a series of assassinations, including an unnamed man getting shot by murderers disguised by garbage collectors and another blown up in a vehicular explosion. We get an introduction from our main character, in the middle of doing something badass before he's surprised by his little daughter - it turns out our hero is a former Special Forces member and RetiredBadass raising his child alone after the death of his unnamed wife before the movie's events. After a cutesy montage of the hero bonding with his daughter over the OP, the hero's former superior in the army unexpectedly pays him a visit, where it's revealed the victims killed in the prologue are the hero's former comrades in the Special Forces and that the hero is likely being targeted. The superior leaves behind some {{Red Shirt}}s to guard the hero, only for armed gunmen to suddenly attack and kill everyone before kidnapping the hero's daughter while leaving behind one of their own to "negotiate". The hero, not really in the mood to talk, [[AggressiveNegotiations shoots the negotiator]] (with a "wrong" as his short reply) before he was captured as well; forced into a mission to kill a benevolent politician, against his will (else his captors returns daughter "in pieces"), our hero managed to escape his captors by jumping off a plane, enlist the help of a reluctant air stewardess, interrogate a henchman before dropping him to death, impale another and embark on a lengthy rescue mission that involves him killing 70 mooks in the villains' island hideout.

The movie begins with a series of assassinations, including an unnamed man getting shot by murderers disguised by garbage collectors and another blown up in a vehicular explosion. We then get an introduction from our main character, who's in the middle of doing something badass before he's surprised by his little daughter, where it turns out our hero is a former Special Forces member and RetiredBadass raising his child alone after the death of his unnamed wife before the movie's events. After a cutesy montage of the hero bonding with his daughter over the OP, the hero's former superior in the army unexpectedly pays him a visit, where it's revealed the victims killed in the prologue are the hero's former comrades in the Special Forces and that the hero is likely being targeted. The superior leaves behind some {{Red Shirt}}s to guard the hero, only for armed gunmen to suddenly attack and kill everyone before kidnapping the hero's daughter while leaving behind one of their own to "negotiate". The hero, not really in the mood to talk, [[AggressiveNegotiations shoots the negotiator]] (with a "wrong" as his short reply) before he was captured as well; forced into a mission to kill a benevolent politician, against his will (else his captors returns daughter "in pieces"), our hero managed to escape his captors by jumping off a plane, enlist the help of a reluctant air stewardess, interrogate a henchman before dropping him to death, impale another and embark on a lengthy rescue mission that involves him killing 70 mooks in the villains' island hideout.

--> "You're quite the funnyman. I assure you that you'll die ''hilariously."
---> Ivan to Stasik