Commando

Commando is a 1985 American action thriller film directed by Mark L. Lester and produced by Joel Silver. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead role, alongside Rae Dawn Chong, Alyssa Milano, Vernon Wells, Bill Duke and Dan Hedaya. The film's score was provided by James Horner. Commando was released in the United States on October 4, 1985, where it received praise for the action sequences and humour. The film became a commercial success at the box office. It was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Special Effects, but lost to Back to the Future. Plot Two garbage collectors gun down a person with Ingram MAC-10s, a bald-headed tough steals a car from a dealership and runs over the dealer, and a tugboat is blown up in a harbor. In upstate California, former United States Army Special Forces Colonel John Matrix is informed by his former superior Major General Franklin Kirby that all the other members of his former unit have been killed by unknown mercenaries. The assassins attack Matrix's secluded mountain home and kidnap his young daughter Jenny. While trying to intercept them, Matrix is tranquilized and abducted by the mercenaries, led by Bennett — an ex-member of Matrix's team discharged for excessive violence, who faked his death and is now working with the mercenaries as revenge against Matrix. He is taken before their commander, Arius, a former South American dictator who Matrix removed from power. Arius blackmails Matrix into carrying out a political assassination in his home country of Val Verde, where he wishes to lead a military coup.