For this year, I’m going with the reminder of the fractured phrase: Hooray for Hollyweird! Most of us love movies and I enjoy recommending what you should watch on any given day. So, Hooray for Hollyweird … and for today’s recommendation, let’s get to an early Arnold Schwarzenegger action piece called “Commando.” It’s from 1985 and really big slice of violent cheese!
Once he gets going in this one (just after the halfway point of “Commando”), he mows ’em like you do to your front-yard grass in the summer … which is somewhat apropos, since he even used garden tools to take bad guys some out!
“Commando” is the story of a former commando living the “quiet life” with his daughter (Alyssa Milano, who was 12 when the movie was released). The film is so saccharine that they even pet a deer together and have ice cream.
Well, since “Commando” is an action movie, the idyllic setting doesn’t last long and Arnie’s daughter has been kidnapped as a way to force him to assassinate another country’s leader. Yeah, threatening Arnie is always a great way in film (and probably in life, too) to set yourself up for death or at least a major ass-kicking.
“Commando” finishes up at the bad-guy leaders headquarters on an island and while hundreds, if not thousands, of rounds of ammo are shot at Arnie, only Schwarzenegger’s gunfire hits anyone (and so, too, do the garden implements).
With this film, the supporting cast isn’t much, but you will enjoy seeing Rae Dawn Chong as Schwarzenegger’s at-first reluctant sidekick. She doesn’t do much with her character, but since the film is totally cheesy to begin with, you don’t expect much from her, either.
However, it’s the big slice of action cheese that makes this film … so find “Commando” on a streaming service and you can always say, “Hooray for Hollyweird!”
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