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I would like to say that when it comes to the action 'Commando' builds up to a crescendo saving the biggest and best to last. Which of course leads to the various comical continuity errors such as having disposed with Sully, Matrix drives off in the pristine yellow Porsche which only seconds later had been banged up after being crashed. But then there are others which are a little comical usually thanks to the corny dialogue which Schwarzenegger gets to spout such as when he is dangling bad guy Sully over the cliff's edge. Many of the action scenes end up being quite blood thirsty such as when Matrix uses a saw blade as a weapon throwing it Frisbee like to take off the top of a bad guys head. Even the intro to John Matrix features enough scenes of Schwarzenegger carrying tree trunks to emphasise his amazing strength and physique. But that is not a negative as this is what many 80s action movies were like, they were skimpy on storyline and heavy on action, action and more action.Īs such 'Commando' does have a lot of action and there are very few scenes which don't feature chases, explosions and so on. There are no hidden messages or clever twists or anything which causes you to concentrate on what is happening. Plain and simply it's about a guy going on the rampage on a rescue mission.

To try and find any depth to the 'Commando' storyline would be as futile as trying to beat Arnie in an arm wrestle as there is none. But his daughter is more important to him than anything and having escaped the clutches of the bad guys, including one of his former operatives Bennett ( Vernon Wells - Weird Science), John goes on the rampage with just 11 hours to rescue her from the clutches of baddie Arius ( Dan Hedaya - A Civil Action).

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But despite sounding like a movie devoid of anything other than Schwarzenegger and his Mr Universe body 'Commando' is exactly what 80's action movies were all about and as such is in a strange way a little good and entertaining.Īfter learning that his former team of crack operatives have been picked off one by one, John Matrix ( Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Terminator) is thrown back into action when his daughter is kidnapped and he is forced to undertake another job by the kidnappers for her safe return. It has a storyline but one which is ultimately pointless, it has dialogue mainly of the corny variety, it has characters that border on caricatures and it mainly consists of scenes which feature a combination of bulging biceps, gunfire and bloody deaths. Otherwise, his cameos (like in The Rundown, in which he officially passed the action torch to Dwayne Johnson) and bit parts, however memorable (watch Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye!), were excluded.There are many movies which epitomise the 80s and when it comes to the action genre Arnold Schwarzenegger's 'Commando' is one of the best. Considering the Expendables‘ proudly-worn mantle of throwback action, we felt it was right to have them. And speaking of Stallone projects, we’ve included all three Expendables on this list Schwarzenegger went uncredited in the first, but was upgraded to a side character in the next two. Schwarzenegger’s side gig as governor kept him off-screen during most of the 2000s, but since then it’s drama ( Aftermath, Maggie) that’s he mixed in with minor-comeback vehicles, like The Last Stand or Stallone team-up Escape Plan.

The rest of the decade saw him mixing action with more overt comedies ( Jingle All the Way, Junior, Kindergarten Cop) to varying success. He started the ’90s with a bang with mega-violent mind-bender Total Recall, which was followed by the legendary Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

On this list of Schwarzenegger’s best movies ranked by Tomatometer (alongside the worst), we’re including the 1976 Pumping Iron documentary that helped him land Conan the Barbarian – even though he’s not playing a character, Iron was vital in crafting Arnie’s on-screen image.Īlso included, of course, are his star-making ’80s action films, ranging from sci-fi ( The Terminator) to horror ( Predator) to practically comedy ( Commando). Schwarzenegger’s bodybuilding career, begun at age 14, was enough to take him abroad in competitions, and eventually into the viewfinder of Hollywood agents. Much like his breakthrough role Conan the Barbarian, Arnold Schwarzenegger transcended a childhood of neglect and poverty in 1950s Austria, pushing his body over over the top, to become one day the king of the Hyborian Age governor of California.

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