A retired special agent named John Matrix led an elite unit and has left the armed forces to live in a secluded mountain home with his daughter Jenny. But now he is forced out of retirement when his daughter is kidnapped by a band of thugs intent on revenge! Unbeknownst to Matrix, the members of his former unit are being killed one by one. Even though Matrix' friend General Franklin Kirby gives M... atrix armed guards, attackers manage to kidnap Matrix and Jenny. Matrix learns that Bennett, a former member of his Matrix' unit who was presumed dead has kidnapped him to try to force Matrix to do a political assassination for a man called Arius (who calls himself El Presidente), a warlord formerly bested by Matrix who wishes to lead a military coup in his home country. Since Arius will have Jenny killed if Matrix refuses, Matrix reluctantly accepts the demand.
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All that matters to me now is Jenny
Don't be fooled by the bloodshed of this movie; the abiding message of Commando is that love- not stomach-turning violence- is the most powerful force on earth. The scores upon scores of evil henchmen to which Arnie lays waste are merely sacrifices, laid down on an alter of love for his daughter, his dear Jenny.
Mark L. Lester was fortunate to have such an emotionally honest actor as Mr Schwarzenegger, though acting seems an inadequate term for what really amounts to a vivisection of the human heart in all its stunning complexity. Consistently elegant, occasionally breath-taking, Commando is surely the one truly convincing love-story to emerge from the troubled 20th Century.
Commando One of the better, if less intelligent, arguments for a 1980s revival. Arnie is a retired elite commando, he has 10 hours to save his daughter from an evil dictator, he's quite cross. "Somewhere... somehow... someone's going to pay"
An Arnie action flick which you could be forgiven for confusing with any one of a dozen strikingly similar muscle-bound fight fests.
This is the one in which Arnie avenges himself on the goons who kidnapped his daughter. The plot could have been, and probably was, written on the back of a bullet, but the slaughter is relieved by a welcome streak of humour with Arnie trading wisecracks with partner Rae Dawn Chong.
