The movie opens on a close-up of Arnold's biceps. Various members of a commando team led by John Matrix (Arnold Schwarzenegger), have appeared murdered. Matrix is a hulking ex-Colonel whose exploits have made him and his men enemies among totalitarian empires and groups around the world. Matrix is now retired and lives with his daughter Jenny (Alyssa Milano) alone in the mountains of upstate California. Matrix's former commanding officer, General Franklin Kirby (James Olson), flies to the house to tell Matrix about the killings of his men (Lawson (Drew Snyder), Forrestal (Michael Delano) and Bennet (Vernon Wells). But the ex-commando leader's daughter is kidnapped in a blackmail scheme to make him depose a South American President, but he fights instead. To get her back, Arnie's army consists of himself and a stewardess (Rae Dawn Chong) he hijacks into help him, but it's more than enough for the bad guys, mos of whom are Arnie's size just to even the odds a little. If there's a mission that no man could survive...then he's the man for the job. They hunted him down. They murdered his friends. Now they've taken the one thing he would kill for - his only daughter. May Heaven help them. Let's Party!. Somewhere, somehow, someone's going to pay.
Enjoyable thriller with tongue-in-cheek, containing suspense, thrills, chills, noisy action-packed, gun-play and loads of violence. Mark L. Lester directs this film that mixes for the first time action, a lot of violence and humor in the way that would later characterize the films of the genre from the eighties and especially those starring Arnold. Leading the cast is our endearing Arnold Schwarzenegger as one army man, he did not want to use doubles for the stunts and ended the filming with several wounds, bruises and a dislocated shoulder. Arnold with his usual stoic acting and he displays amount of weapons arsenal killing nasties. The mayhem is largely wrought by mighty Arnie, who never delivers one blow or bullet where three will do. The filmmakers fall back on the old story of the quiet strong-man stung into action by a threat to something he loves -in this case his young daughter. So he proceeds to rescue his beloved daughter amid a torrential flow of failing bodies. Arnie just straps on his arsenal and it's all over bar the shooting, not to mention the limb-hacking, throat-hacking and head-chopping, with the most surprining death of all reserved for the chief villian, who fails to shoot our hero when he has the chance. Along with the Austrian-American actor, there are several secondary familiar faces, such as: Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, James Olson, David Patrick Kelly , Bill Duke, Drew Snyder, Michael DeLano and a very young Alyssa Milano as the protagonist's daughter.
It displays a somewhat heavy score with excessive synthesizer music by the well-known composer James Horner, who later composed classical symphonic compositions in a number of popular films. In addition, adequate and atmospheric cinematograhy Matthew F. Leonetti. The motion picture lavishly produced by Joe Silver was professionally directed by Mark L Lester. He's a cool director and producer-American World Pictures- of B movies , his greatest success was during the 80s, when he directed hits , such as ¨Commando¨, ¨Firestarter¨, ¨Showdown in Little Tokio¨ and ¨Class of 1984¨ . Rating : 6.5/10. An entertaining action movie, essential and indispensable for Arnold Schwarzenegger fans.
Enjoyable thriller with tongue-in-cheek, containing suspense, thrills, chills, noisy action-packed, gun-play and loads of violence. Mark L. Lester directs this film that mixes for the first time action, a lot of violence and humor in the way that would later characterize the films of the genre from the eighties and especially those starring Arnold. Leading the cast is our endearing Arnold Schwarzenegger as one army man, he did not want to use doubles for the stunts and ended the filming with several wounds, bruises and a dislocated shoulder. Arnold with his usual stoic acting and he displays amount of weapons arsenal killing nasties. The mayhem is largely wrought by mighty Arnie, who never delivers one blow or bullet where three will do. The filmmakers fall back on the old story of the quiet strong-man stung into action by a threat to something he loves -in this case his young daughter. So he proceeds to rescue his beloved daughter amid a torrential flow of failing bodies. Arnie just straps on his arsenal and it's all over bar the shooting, not to mention the limb-hacking, throat-hacking and head-chopping, with the most surprining death of all reserved for the chief villian, who fails to shoot our hero when he has the chance. Along with the Austrian-American actor, there are several secondary familiar faces, such as: Rae Dawn Chong, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, James Olson, David Patrick Kelly , Bill Duke, Drew Snyder, Michael DeLano and a very young Alyssa Milano as the protagonist's daughter.
It displays a somewhat heavy score with excessive synthesizer music by the well-known composer James Horner, who later composed classical symphonic compositions in a number of popular films. In addition, adequate and atmospheric cinematograhy Matthew F. Leonetti. The motion picture lavishly produced by Joe Silver was professionally directed by Mark L Lester. He's a cool director and producer-American World Pictures- of B movies , his greatest success was during the 80s, when he directed hits , such as ¨Commando¨, ¨Firestarter¨, ¨Showdown in Little Tokio¨ and ¨Class of 1984¨ . Rating : 6.5/10. An entertaining action movie, essential and indispensable for Arnold Schwarzenegger fans.