Arnold Schwarzenegger: 5 Awesome Performances & 5 That Sucked
5 Awesome Performances
5. John Matrix - Commando (1985)
If you enter into Commando looking for realism, looking for plausible cause and effect, then youre 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 youve found your promised land. When an evil Freddie Mercury impersonator kidnaps Arnies 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 its a role youll have seen him in many times in the past, but Commando is arguably the pinnacle of his genius as an unstoppable army of one.
