50 Greatest Action Movies Of All Time

8. Commando (1985)

Opening with Arnold Schwarzenegger just casually carrying a tree around and ending with the cheesiest of glam-rock songs, Commando is 1980's action cinema at its best (or worst, depending on your personal preferences).

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Dropping almost as many one-liners as he does disposable henchman, Schwarzenegger blasts his way through a small army with the greatest of ease in one of the most ridiculously over-the-top extended set-pieces in the history of the genre, before dispatching of chainmail-wearing nemesis Bennett with one of the greatest sign-off lines of all time.

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