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...rest of the film deals with Colonel Matrix's race to regain his daughter from the South Americans. There is little else to this movie. It is thus much easier to talk about what Commando wasn't than what Commando...
...Commando is a new action-adventure film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, as the awe-inspiring Colonel Matrix, onetime leader of a special army operations strike force. Having retired to the mountains to lead a life of leisure with his 11-year-old daughter, the Colonel's life is suddenly thrown into turmoil when the little darling is kidnapped by a group of South American terrorists...
...Commando is not a film that discriminates against those with cognitive difficulties. After reading the opening credits, one can easily view the remainder of the film without further brain activity. This is as much for the benefit of the audience as for the actors, for Commando does not offer much in the way of development. Schwarzenegger portrays a two-dimensional cardboard cutout capable only of delivering sour one-liners comprising nothing more than the most basic of sentence constructions punctuated by several hundred rounds of automatic weapons' fire. Despite the assistance provided by the visual aids, it is readily apparent...
...feel that the dead spots in this picture can be spiced up by capturing a slew of seek-and-destruct scenes on film. Hence, we get to see Scwarzenegger murder an incredible amount of terrorists. And destroy quite a few large buildings. There is a lot of violence in Commando. Most of the violence is of the cartoon variety. However, in cartoons, the Road Runner doesn't scream or bleed as Commando blows off his head with a M-60 machine...
...Commando is a movie-industry manifestation of Reagan era jingoism. The capitalists in Tinsletown want to cash in on the rising tide of cultural bias. Thus, the emerging genre of movies that are cinematic representations of the ultra-conservative Id. This new genre usually features an actor such as Schwarzenegger, Stallone or some other symbol of the American y-chromosome bounding about blasting anyone with an accent or a darker skin tone. Commando is such a byproduct of political isolationism and flat-out hate...