Commando is probably the greatest film ever made. It's the ultimate eighties Arnie film, with a ludicrous premise, endless terrible one-liners, and equal mounts of gratuitous violence and gratuitous shots of the future Governator's rippling biceps. And an excess of steel pan used on the soundtrack, for reasons that are still a mystery thirty years on. What it does better than most Schwarzenegger flicks and better than most action films of the era in general is acknowledge that ammunition is a thing. During the climactic action sequence where his former commando storms an island outpost and murders almost everyone on it, he has to frequently dump his weapons and switch for others cos he's out of bullets. Compare that to most action scenes, from Rambo's endless slaughter with gattling guns to the John Woo school of magic handguns, where nobody ever bothers to reload. In fact you have to reload guns pretty quickly...and according to statistics, most gunfights end within the space of three shots fired anyway.
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