10 Awesome Action Movies That Didn't Need A Sequel, Remake Or Reboot

4. Commando

Commando Arnold Schwarzenegger
20th Century Studios

Coming just a year after the release of The Terminator, Commando solidified Arnold Schwarzenegger's credentials as Hollywood's new king of the action genre, and it remains one of the big Austrian's most popular efforts 35 years later thanks to some gloriously cheesy one-liners and preposterously over-the-top action scenes.

The movie earned over $57m at the box office on a modest $9m budget and quickly became a fan favorite, but we never got to see John Matrix return to our screens, despite writer Steven E. De Souza admitting that he penned a script for a follow-up that would have seen the car-flipping retired soldier running his own security firm, before presumably losing both of his sleeves in order to mow down dozens more faceless henchmen.

A decade ago David Ayer was attached to a write and direct a remake, but once he was no longer involved the project quickly fell by the wayside. Commando is such a specific product of its time, and one of the most iconic and quotable action movies ever made, that the idea of anyone making another version that shares only the title and nothing else would be a very transsparen and cynical appeal to the nostalgia market.

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