Arnold Schwarzenegger: 5 Awesome Performances & 5 That Sucked

By Stuart W. Bedford /

5 Awesome Performances€

5. John Matrix - Commando (1985)

If you enter into Commando looking for realism, looking for plausible cause and effect, then you€™re going to leave this one shaking your head in disappointment. But if you go in looking for a ridiculously over-the-top eighties action extravaganza, then you€™ve found your promised land. When an evil Freddie Mercury impersonator kidnaps Arnie€™s daughter, you know that what he does next is going to ensure that for Bennett, the show most certainly will not go on. In Commando, Arnie can €˜smell€™ enemies coming, he can tear car seats out of their housing in seconds and he can generally dispense one-man-army justice without so much as breaking a sweat. Schwarzenegger is perfect in a role like this, and it€™s a role you€™ll have seen him in many times in the past, but Commando is arguably the pinnacle of his genius as an unstoppable army of one.