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...funny guy--that's why I m going to kill you last." --Colonel Matrix, Commando...
...soon likely to ignore Schwarzenegger's biceps, which are about as big around as watermelons at harvest time, his calves, which appear to have the diameter of a California redwood, or his stomach, which seems to be made of Vermont granite. The audiences crowding into Schwarzenegger's latest picture, Commando, may just be there to enjoy blood and guts, but it is the Body--a wonder like that deserves a capital letter--that they will remember. In only eleven days the film has grossed $16.9 million, and Rambo, which was the No. 2 boxoffice hit of the summer (after Back...
Schwarzenegger, 38, plays a commando whose career has been saving the U.S. and its friends from all sorts of sinister types. Retiring to a mountaintop in California, he hopes to spend the rest of his days in peaceful pursuits, like raising his motherless daughter. But bad guys being bad guys, they want revenge. They kidnap his child and threaten to kill her unless he assassinates the President of a fictional country in Central America. The rest of the film is devoted to Schwarzenegger's pursuit of his enemies. He shoots them, drops them off cliffs, slits their throats, chops...
Cinema 57: 200 Stuart St., near Park St., Boston, 482-1222. Commando: 1, 3:15, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10; Silver Bullet...
...since 1976, when its commandos raided Entebbe airport in Uganda to rescue a planeload of passengers being held hostage by Palestinian gunmen, had Israel launched an operation so far from home. This time, the Israelis flew some 1,500 miles across the Mediterranean, twice refueling in midair. The Israelis announced that the raid was in reprisal for the murder by terrorists a week earlier of three Israeli civilians on a yacht in the port of Larnaca, Cyprus. The Israelis were convinced that the attack, which took place on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, had been carried...