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Commando

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Commando	label	Commando
Commando	page	Commando
Commando	comment	Commando is a 1985 action film directed by Mark L. Lester, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in his most unintentionally homoerotic work, topping the close second of Predator, and offering the first display of Schwarzenegger's distinctive tongue-in-cheek film humor (as opposed to Conan the Barbarian and The Terminator, who were both The Stoic). The movie's supporting cast includes Rae Dawn Chong, Alyssa Milano, Dan Hedaya, Vernon Wells, James Olson, and David Patrick Kelly.Commando tells the story of John Matrix (Arnie), a retired special forces colonel whose young daughter (Milano) is kidnapped. To get her back, Matrix must assassinate the president of the fictional South American country of Val Verde, at the behest of The Generalissimo whom he deposed. Naturally, he simply decides to ignore these demands and, in true Papa Wolf fashion, sets out to kill them all and rescue her instead.In 2008, a Russian remake of the movie was released called "Ð”ÐµÐ½ÑŒ Ð”" (D-Day), starring Russian superstar Mikhail Porechenkov in the lead role as former paratrooper Ivan* which is the Russian equivalent of "John". Roughly 80% of the movie is a shot-for-shot recreation of the original version, though some scenes were altered to better match both the updated time period and Russian culture * specifically, the chase against the Sully stand-in happens while he is enjoying himself at a water park instead of a mall so he has a plausible reason to not have a cell phone on him, and Ivan obtains his guns from a secret stash instead of breaking into a military surplus store due to heavy Russian restrictions on private firearms ownership. The final fight against not!Bennett is also quite different from the original.Not to Be Confused with the long-running British Comic Book Commando, which is a little more sedate in its overall narrative. Does not involve Going Commando, either. Or the Capcom arcade/console gamenote Known as "Senjou no Ookami" (officially translated as "Wolf of the Battlefield") in Japan., for that matter (or its bionic counterpartnote Which is known as "Top Secret" in Japan.).
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Commando / int_10134c97	type	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety
Commando / int_10134c97	comment	Artistic License â€“ Gun Safety: Averted when Matrix is shown to store his firearms in a proper gunsafe, not hidden around the house as usual in action movies. The fact that he has a child no doubt has a lot to do with this. (Dramaturgically speaking, it also gives Matrix a plausible plot reason to leave her alone while he rushes to get a weapon.) Played straight with Cindy who despite claiming to have read the instructions on the M202 Flash rocket launcher fires it backwards before using it to free Matrix from police custody. Not quite gun safety, but Matrix later straps M67 grenades to his vest when gearing up to assault Arius' compound. The dangerous thing is that he strings the grenades to his vest by looping paracord through the grenade pins. As anybody with any sense will tell you, this is the worst way to carry grenades on a vest; grenades have some weight, and they're swinging around on a vest; all it takes is one harsh impact or movement and the grenades can dislodge and fall to the ground as live explosives, leaving their pins behind. When Bennett is down to his micro-Uzi, he racks the bolt with his finger on the trigger. Though knowing how Ax-Crazy Bennett is, this isn't too far out of character.
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Commando / int_112daba0	type	Retired Badass
Commando / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Matrix is a retired special forces soldier.
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Commando / int_1206d299	type	Can't Kill You, Still Need You
Commando / int_1206d299	comment	Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Sully tries to invoke this during the High-Altitude Interrogation, saying Matrix needs him to find his daughter. When Matrix presses him, Sully then admits he doesn't know exactly where she is, but Cooke does and that he'll take him where he's supposed to meet him next. Unfortunately for him, Matrix already found the Plot Coupon on Sully that tells him where that would be. Sully is left whimpering even before Matrix reminds him about the whole You Will Be Spared speech and saying I Lied.
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Commando / int_13c1fec8	type	Dragon-in-Chief
Commando / int_13c1fec8	comment	Dragon-in-Chief: As quoted above, Bennett claims (correctly) that he's a bigger threat to John than Arius' and his army.
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Commando / int_149ff4b0	type	HilarityEnsues
Commando / int_149ff4b0	comment	Hilarity Ensues: From this point on in the film, it's all a barrel of laughs:
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Commando / int_14a8e0a2	type	Villain Opening Scene
Commando / int_14a8e0a2	comment	Villain Opening Scene: Before we are introduced to Matrix, we see Cooke and Diaz murdering several of Matrix's friends, including Bennett, the last of which is revealed to have faked his death to do a Faceâ€“Heel Turn.
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Commando / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Commando / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "Commando" is Matrix's radio call sign.
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Commando / int_192c6284	type	Enemies Equals Greatness
Commando / int_192c6284	comment	Enemies Equals Greatness: When Matrix asks Kirby who has been killing his men, Kirby points out that it could be anybody due to the fact that Matrix has made enemies all over the world. A few possibilities that Kirby mentions are the Syrians, the South Americans (the continent, not the country), the Russians, and various terrorist groups.
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Commando / int_1972ef89	type	Railing Kill
Commando / int_1972ef89	comment	Railing Kill: Mall cops shoot Sully's contact (credited as the Latin Man), causing him to fall over the mall railing. Matrix shoots a Mook standing on a watchtower during the climax, causing him to fall through the railing several stories below.
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Commando / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Commando / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: Matrix spends most of the film in a henley shirt to show off his pecs, and prior to gearing up for his assault on Bennett's island, is seen wearing only a Speedo. He also goes into the final battle wearing a sleeveless vest, which he ditches after a couple of minutes before spending the rest of the film shirtless. Downplayed, since the hook that got Arnold interested in the film was that Matrix doesn't spend the entire film in a state of undress, meaning that the audience's attention would be on his acting and not on his physique.
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Commando / int_1b4ead2d	type	Soft Glass
Commando / int_1b4ead2d	comment	Soft Glass: Played with. Matrix plays this straight, but his friend who ran the car dealership is badly cut when he's driven through a window. It's possible the shards killed him, that or being hit by the car.
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Commando / int_1b5e0e5b	type	The Bogan
Commando / int_1b5e0e5b	comment	The Bogan: Bennett the Australian is constantly swearing, losing his temper, and being murderously violent. No wonder his own men are frightened of him.
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Commando / int_1badfbbb	type	The Heavy
Commando / int_1badfbbb	comment	The Heavy: Bennett.
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Commando / int_1c2b6ac8	type	Soft Water
Commando / int_1c2b6ac8	comment	Soft Water: About three feet of it cushions Matrix's fall after he jumps from an airplane's landing gear.
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Commando / int_1d9099cb	type	Deadly Disc
Commando / int_1d9099cb	comment	Deadly Disc: Matrix kills two of Arius' soldiers by throwing circular saw blades at them.
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Commando / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Commando / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: This film is practically a paean to the trope. It opens up with a whole cheesy montage of Matrix spending time with his daughter. When the bad guys kidnap her, it gives Matrix the justification to go completely bonkers and kill every last mook he comes across.
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Commando / int_1e3a9a21	type	Angrish
Commando / int_1e3a9a21	comment	Angrish: In the fight with Bennett. Matrix convinces him to let Jenny out of his clutches, goading him into a knife fight. Bennett takes the bait, but not before responding with a line that gets less and less coherent as it progresses.
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Commando / int_1f17e9fe	type	High-Altitude Interrogation
Commando / int_1f17e9fe	comment	High-Altitude Interrogation: Matrix dangles Sully above a cliff to make him talk. And then...
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Commando / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Commando / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: Arius seems to think he's a Magnificent Bastard Big Bad in a serious Cold War action drama. He's really a Smug Snake Non-Action Big Bad in a Stealth Parody of '80s action movies.
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Commando / int_224c9334	type	Satellite Family Member
Commando / int_224c9334	comment	Satellite Family Member: The bad guys compel Matrix to follow their plan by kidnapping his daughter Jenny. If he doesn't do what they want, they'll kill her. This both motivates him to rescue her and places a time limit on his actions: he has about twelve hours before the bad guys discover he's not following their orders, so he has to rescue Jenny within that timespan.
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Commando / int_225b682	type	Throw-Away Guns
Commando / int_225b682	comment	Throw-Away Guns: During the final battle, Matrix simply discards weapons he no longer has any use for.
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Commando / int_23a0a0d0	type	Dragon Their Feet
Commando / int_23a0a0d0	comment	Dragon Their Feet: The Big Bad is Arius, not Bennett. He gets his own dose of buckshot before Matrix deals with Bennett, though.
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Commando / int_25afd4a3	type	Good Guns, Bad Guns
Commando / int_25afd4a3	comment	Good Guns, Bad Guns: Many of the Big Bad's Mooks carry M16 rifles and other "Western" military weapons. Justified in that one of the terrorists' bosses is a turncoat US special forces veteran who would be most familiar with them for training purposes and that the Big Bad himself is planning to launch a revolution in his Banana Republic home country, likely purchasing the weapons as surplus. Matrix, the hero, instead gets most of his weapons from an implied illegal (given the fact that they were hidden in a secret room) surplus store. This justifies the fact that he uses several typical "Bad Guns" including an AK variant, an Uzi, and a Desert Eagle. Though he otherwise uses stolen "Bad Guy" guns, Matrix wields a pump shotgun in his confrontation with Arius, the Big Bad (who uses a Steyr AUG), ultimately using it to blast him out a window.
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Commando / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
Commando / int_28114487	comment	Bald of Evil: Cooke has a shiny bald head.
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Commando / int_2a195285	type	Revolvers Are Just Better
Commando / int_2a195285	comment	Revolvers Are Just Better: Averted. Cooke carries one as a sidearm when he goes to meet with Sully and is attacked by Matrix. During the ensuing fight in the motel, Cooke fires off six shots, either missing Matrix or during the struggle for the gun. He manages to get Matrix in his sights, but pulls the trigger on an empty chamber. If he'd been carrying an automatic, Matrix would be dead.
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Commando / int_2a44899	type	Plot Armor
Commando / int_2a44899	comment	Plot Armor: In one the best examples on could ever find of this trope, Martix fights an entire army while standing out in the open, yet none of the enemy soldiers are able to shoot him. There is also the part where Matrix jumps out of a moving plane hundreds of feet in the air and is unharmed simply because he lands in a few feet of water.
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Commando / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Commando / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: Most of the movie revolves around dakka exchange between fighting parties: trimming bushes with machine gun fire, entire squad dakka-venting the barn with The Ahnold inside, et cetera, et cetera.
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Commando / int_2c628d38	type	Worf Had the Flu
Commando / int_2c628d38	comment	Worf Had the Flu: The only reason the bad guys catch Matrix is because he just climbed out of his own wrecked truck (only made possible because swerved his nigh uncontrollable descent from hitting the bad guys' vehicles out of fear of hurting Jenny) clearly hurt and dazed without his rifle.
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Commando / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Commando / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Bennett, and how! He downright looks pleased that Matrix is violently storming the compound at the end, and he's even coaxed into dropping his gun for a knife fight by appealing to his deranged sadism.
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Commando / int_2d6f00e4	type	Psycho for Hire
Commando / int_2d6f00e4	comment	Psycho for Hire: Bennett. Explicitly called out as enjoying the killing, and he never even denies it.
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Commando / int_2e338ce4	type	The Cavalry Arrives Late
Commando / int_2e338ce4	comment	The Cavalry Arrives Late: General Kirby and his army arrives at Arius' base after Matrix has already cleared it out.
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Commando / int_2f95aaf0	type	Father's Quest
Commando / int_2f95aaf0	comment	Father's Quest: Matrix is a retired Commando quietly raising his daughter, Jenny. When mooks kidnap Jenny, a spokesman for the thugs explains that his services are required to stage a coup d'etat in The Generalissimo's homeland. Matrix makes short work of most of these thugs, but still had to venture to Central America to rescue Jenny. At least until he jumps out of the plane as it's lifting off so that he can track down the rest of the thugs and find his daughter.
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Commando / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Commando / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Cooke, former Green Beret who racked up a good portion of the kills of Matrix's old team and the only person in the film aside from Arius and Bennett who actually lasts longer than five seconds in a fight with Matrix. Subverted with Henriques, who despite his Bullying the Dragon statement is offed in two moves by Matrix with barely a struggle.
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Commando / int_32976084	type	Destination Defenestration
Commando / int_32976084	comment	Destination Defenestration: Arius' fate, after getting round after round from Matrix's shotgun pumped through his body, at which point he is sent flying through a side window of his mansion.
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Commando / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Commando / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: Bennett to Matrix.
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Commando / int_3441859b	type	Rank Scales with Asskicking
Commando / int_3441859b	comment	Rank Scales with Asskicking: Though he doesn't get involved in combat until late in the movie, Arius ends up presenting a more formidable obstacle to Matrix than his entire army did.
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Commando / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
Commando / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: SO, so much.
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Commando / int_371b253a	type	Testosterone Poisoning
Commando / int_371b253a	comment	Testosterone Poisoning: Lampshaded by Cindy with the lines "I can't believe this macho bullshit!" and "these guys eat too much red meat!"
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Commando / int_374c339d	type	I'll Kill You!
Commando / int_374c339d	comment	I'll Kill You!:
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Commando / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Commando / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: At least three of Arnie's lines are things he said in The Terminator. His one-word answer, "Wrong," before blasting away his first mook, his Catchphrase "I'll be back" (of course), and the line, "Fuck you, asshole!" all of which are spoken in the same order as the former movie. This was his first big movie after The Terminator and his first leading role with a substantial amount of dialogue.
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Commando / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Commando / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Matrix has a cache of weapons in his tool shed. Considering that he's made so many enemies over the years, this was probably a wise decision.
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Commando / int_3c111ce6	type	Pistol-Whipping
Commando / int_3c111ce6	comment	Pistol-Whipping: When Matrix has his first fight with the goons who kidnapped Jenny, one of them hits Matrix with the stock of his rifle to stun him. During the Final Battle, Matrix uses the stock of his shotgun to bludgeon one of the Mooks before facing off with Arius.
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Commando / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Commando / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Matrix against Arius' army at the end of the film.
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Commando / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Commando / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: Matrix's 4x4 crashes and rolls, and then bursts in to flames and explodes after he gets out.
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Commando / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Commando / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: Matrix uses a freakin' tracked loader to break into an army surplus store after hours and load up on artillery. As soon as he gets everything he needs (read: all the cool looking stuff), he turns to leave... and gets arrested. What did you think was gonna happen? Luckily, well... see Police Are Useless above. Matrix forcibly tries to get Cindy to help him after explaining his situation by having her put on a honeypot routine in an attempt to Sully, however Cindy doesn't believe Matrix's outlandish (yet true) story like any normal person would (Seriously, how often does something as crazy as being forced to kill a South American president or risk losing your daughter happen in Real Life?) and the first chance she gets, she asks a security guard to help her get away from Matrix, blowing his cover — it's not until Sully recognizes John and starts shooting at him that Cindy believes him and tries to help him.
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Commando / int_4056daeb	type	Rash Equilibrium
Commando / int_4056daeb	comment	Rash Equilibrium: Arius hints that Jenny's going to get killed (or worse) no matter what Matrix decides to do (though he doesn't count on Matrix killing every one of his men).
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Commando / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Commando / int_40bb59d0	comment	Played straight with Cindy who despite claiming to have read the instructions on the M202 Flash rocket launcher fires it backwards before using it to free Matrix from police custody.
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Commando / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Commando / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Jenny, but hardly a hopeless example of the trope. Using her own resourcefulness she's able to free herself from her confinement — if not, Bennett would have cut her throat before Matrix even got near her.
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Commando / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Commando / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: How many security guards does that mall have?
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Commando / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Commando / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Justified (or excused, at any rate) by mentioning early in the film that Matrix hails from East Germany.
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Commando / int_43b154c9	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_43b154c9
Commando / int_44bd31e2	type	Trope Codifier
Commando / int_44bd31e2	comment	Trope Codifier: This is the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. Loads of over-the-top kills? Check. Mowing down tons of mooks with a machine gun while they miss every shot? Check. Cheesy one-liners before and after the most memorable kills? Check. Stuff Blowing Up, usually just because it's so much cooler than Stuff not Blowing Up? Check. This one has it all.
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Commando / int_44bd31e2	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_44bd31e2
Commando / int_45398e01	type	Psycho Knife Nut
Commando / int_45398e01	comment	Psycho Knife Nut: Bennett. Dude practically masturbates at the prospect of stabbing Matrix in the gut with his big weapon.
Commando / int_45398e01	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_45398e01	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_45398e01
Commando / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Commando / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Bennett undeniably has a twisted sense of respect for Matrix as a fellow warrior, and was visibly happy that Matrix came guns blazing to rescue Jenny ("Welcome back, John!"), giving him one last chance to put his skills and mettle to the ultimate test. Matrix uses this respect to goad him into dropping his gun (and letting go of Jenny) to engage him in a final knife-fight to the death.
Commando / int_4604fd4d	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_4604fd4d	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_4604fd4d
Commando / int_46f3f271	type	From Camouflage to Criminal
Commando / int_46f3f271	comment	From Camouflage to Criminal: It's unsubtly implied that most of Arius's American henchmen are made up of former, possibly all disgraced U.S. soldiers (Bennett was a member of Matrix's unit who was dishonorably discharged for his brutality, Cooke was a Green Beret and Sully himself states while escorting Matrix to the airport that he and Henriques were in the service while commenting on Matrix and Bennett's relationship).
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Commando / int_46f3f271	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_46f3f271
Commando / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Commando / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Arius and Bennett threaten to kill Jenny if Matrix doesn't work for them. When Arius hears that Matrix escaped the plane, he attempts to make good on the threat by sending Bennett to kill Jenny.
Commando / int_479d4e5a	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_479d4e5a	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_479d4e5a
Commando / int_48cbd223	type	Machete Mayhem
Commando / int_48cbd223	comment	Machete Mayhem: In the toolshed sequence, the last remaining soldier has his arm chopped off by a machete.
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Commando / int_48cbd223	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_48cbd223
Commando / int_496569e8	type	Race Against the Clock
Commando / int_496569e8	comment	Race Against the Clock: After escaping the plane, Matrix has 11 hours to wrap things up before it lands and his escape is discovered. Arius learns that Matrix wasn't on the plane while Matrix is infiltrating his base. This is a bit of a plot hole, as there is no point in Latin America that would require an 11 hour non-stop flight from Los Angeles.
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Commando / int_496569e8	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_496569e8
Commando / int_49d5f48f	type	Of Corpse He's Alive
Commando / int_49d5f48f	comment	Of Corpse He's Alive: Matrix sneakily kills Henriques on the plane with a Neck Snap, then makes it look like he's just sleeping. He then asks a flight attendant not to disturb his "friend", on the grounds that he's "dead tired".
Commando / int_49d5f48f	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_49d5f48f	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_49d5f48f
Commando / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
Commando / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: General Franklin Kirby.
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Commando / int_4a852458	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_4a852458
Commando / int_4ab9c868	type	Pretty Little Headshots
Commando / int_4ab9c868	comment	Pretty Little Headshots: Played straight to a degree that's almost ridiculous when Matrix shoots Diaz just before chasing after Jenny's kidnappers; Matrix uses an HK91 rifle, which fires 7.62mm rounds, at point blank range. The result is a forehead entrance wound about the size of a dime, with no trace of an exit wound.
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Commando / int_4ab9c868	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_4ab9c868
Commando / int_4c7e3b7	type	Construction Vehicle Rampage
Commando / int_4c7e3b7	comment	Construction Vehicle Rampage: Matrix uses a tracked loader to break into an army surplus store for equipping himself with military weaponry.
Commando / int_4c7e3b7	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_4c7e3b7	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_4c7e3b7
Commando / int_4cfe362e	type	Awesome Aussie
Commando / int_4cfe362e	comment	Awesome Aussie: Granted, he doesn't have an awesome personality, but Bennett is actually Australian, judging by his accent and the nationality of his actor, and he poses more of a challenge to Matrix than any of the rest of the Mooks.
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Commando / int_4cfe362e	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_4cfe362e
Commando / int_4d45aa06	type	Banana Republic
Commando / int_4d45aa06	comment	Banana Republic: Val Verde.
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Commando / int_4d45aa06	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_4d45aa06
Commando / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
Commando / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: Boy howdy. This movie will impregnate any unprotected female viewers. And a few male ones, too.
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Commando / int_4da6ac	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_4da6ac
Commando / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Commando / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Matrix first does this when he was about to drop Sully off a cliff. Cooke also delivers two while killing Matrix's old team:
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Commando / int_508d91a2	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_508d91a2
Commando / int_514d1380	type	Trick-and-Follow Ploy
Commando / int_514d1380	comment	Nice Job Guiding Us, Hero: The villains track down Matrix by killing some of his former squadmates and faking Bennett's murder, knowing Kirby will have to inform Matrix of these developments, and then following Kirby's helicopter.
Commando / int_514d1380	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_514d1380	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_514d1380
Commando / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Commando / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: Schwarzenegger has always been good at these, but Commando contains some of his greatest efforts. After killing a man on a plane and disguising him as if he's asleep, he turns to a stewardess and says: "Don't disturb my friend. He's dead tired." After dropping Sully off a cliff, and then being asked where he has gone: "I let him go." After throwing a length of pipe clean through Bennett and into a boiler, releasing a jet of steam: "Let off some steam, Bennett."
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Commando / int_51640e80	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_51640e80
Commando / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Commando / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Bennett.
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Commando / int_53f5119f	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_53f5119f
Commando / int_543a0278	type	Villain Respect
Commando / int_543a0278	comment	Villain Respect: Bennett candidly admits to his partners in crime his respect for Matrix's skill as a warrior on multiple occasions, fully expecting him to escape and exact his revenge on them all.
Commando / int_543a0278	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_543a0278	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_543a0278
Commando / int_548bd053	type	Guns Akimbo
Commando / int_548bd053	comment	Guns Akimbo: When he finally faces off against Arius, Matrix goes up against him with an assault rifle in one hand and a shotgun in the other. When the assault rifle runs dry, he just uses the shotgun until he takes out Arius.
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Commando / int_548bd053	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_548bd053
Commando / int_5527dc0c	type	Plot Coupon
Commando / int_5527dc0c	comment	Plot Coupon: After leaping from the plane to Val Verde, a good portion of the film's second act involves Matrix having to find items that clue him in to the next location. The most egregious instance of this is probably after Cooke is killed without him revealing to Matrix any relevant information, requiring Matrix and Cindy to search his car until they find a helpful clue.
Commando / int_5527dc0c	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_5527dc0c	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_5527dc0c
Commando / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Commando / int_59907e4f	comment	Matrix uses a freakin' tracked loader to break into an army surplus store after hours and load up on artillery. As soon as he gets everything he needs (read: all the cool looking stuff), he turns to leave... and gets arrested. What did you think was gonna happen? Luckily, well... see Police Are Useless above.
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Commando / int_59907e4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_59907e4f
Commando / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Commando / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Sully.
Commando / int_5bdcc85a	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_5bdcc85a	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_5bdcc85a
Commando / int_5bdf025f	type	Instant Sedation
Commando / int_5bdf025f	comment	Instant Sedation: Bennett using a dart gun to knock out Matrix. It must have had a very high dosage to knock out someone as huge as Matrix that fast.
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Commando / int_5bdf025f	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_5bdf025f
Commando / int_6201e8b0	type	I Have Your Wife
Commando / int_6201e8b0	comment	I Have Your Wife: The bad guys kidnap Matrix's daughter to blackmail him into working for them. It instead inspires him to murder them all. So, it backfired.
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Commando / int_6201e8b0	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_6201e8b0
Commando / int_638b65bc	type	Armor Is Useless
Commando / int_638b65bc	comment	Armor Is Useless: Bennett wears a chain mail vest, for whatever reason, and it's hilariously pointless, given that he gets himself electrocuted and impaled by a large pipe during the final fight. Matrix's flak vest is an aversion, as the wound he receives from a grenade might have been much worse had he not been wearing it.
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Commando / int_638b65bc	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_638b65bc
Commando / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
Commando / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: With the exceptions of John Matrix and Franklin Kirby, every character only has their first name or surname revealed.
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Commando / int_663f35c0	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_663f35c0
Commando / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Commando / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: In the Director's Cut, it's revealed that Jenny's mother died when she gave birth to Jenny and at the time of her death, Matrix was stationed with the US Army in Laos. Therefore Jenny gets to keep her dad all for herself which is useful when she is kidnapped as he is the most macho man in the world.
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Commando / int_66dfe36a	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_66dfe36a
Commando / int_676e942c	type	We Hardly Knew Ye
Commando / int_676e942c	comment	We Hardly Knew Ye: A handsome Val Verdan in a fur-lined jacket with a Goatee of Evil is introduced in a manner that indicates he's The Dragon, taking part in the opening assassinations and shooting both of Kirby's Red Shirts. He stays behind to deliver the I Have Your Daughter ultimatum... until Matrix shoots him in the head with his assault rifle.
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Commando / int_676e942c	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_676e942c
Commando / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
Commando / int_6860368a	comment	Mook Horror Show: Especially the toolshed sequence.
Commando / int_6860368a	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_6860368a	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_6860368a
Commando / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
Commando / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: Vernon Wells, the actor who plays Bennett, practically uses the climactic knife fight as chewing gum! His lines "You're a dead man, John!", or "What's it feel to be a dying man?" also count. Even his understated lines like "I said I'd do it for nothing." chew the scenery.
Commando / int_69fb91e8	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_69fb91e8	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_69fb91e8
Commando / int_70d8269d	type	Excuse Plot
Commando / int_70d8269d	comment	Excuse Plot: Not unexpected being that it's part of the Schwarzenegger oeuvre, but a particularly notable example — the movie doesn't even pretend it's going to have anything to do with the whole "kill the leader of Val Verde to get your daughter back" stuff. This has the rather amusing result that pretty much every scene with Arius before the climax basically involves him sitting around waiting for Matrix to show up and kill him even if he doesn't realize it.
Commando / int_70d8269d	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_70d8269d	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_70d8269d
Commando / int_763ac306	type	Mandatory Unretirement
Commando / int_763ac306	comment	Mandatory Unretirement: Matrix just wanted to leave conflict behind and live a quiet life rising his daughter... Until some jackass former dictator and his goons decided it was a fantastic idea to kidnap said daughter. Big mistake.
Commando / int_763ac306	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_763ac306	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_763ac306
Commando / int_7adf5414	type	TranquilizerDart
Commando / int_7adf5414	comment	Tranquilizer Dart: After a group of mooks restrain John, the henchman Bennet then tranquilizes him.
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Commando / int_7adf5414	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_7adf5414
Commando / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
Commando / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: Happens to one of the Mooks early in the climax when Matrix catches him unawares while sneaking around.
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Commando / int_7e577db	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_7e577db
Commando / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Commando / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Sully mocks and taunts Matrix as he's about to board the plane, implying they'll have fun with his daughter while he's away. This is what prompts the famous "You're a funny guy, Sully. I like you." line. Henriques tells Matrix "open your mouth again, and I'll nail it shut" when he calls him his carry-on luggage. He finds himself on the wrong end of a Neck Snap not seconds later.
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Commando / int_7eb73553	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_7eb73553
Commando / int_7f298d3d	type	Lame Comeback
Commando / int_7f298d3d	comment	Lame Comeback: After being shot down by Cindy after he (very sleazily) tries to chat her up, Sully's response... is to petulantly snarl "You fuckin' whore!" and stomp off in a huff.
Commando / int_7f298d3d	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_7f298d3d	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_7f298d3d
Commando / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Commando / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Almost, by Matrix. Him calling out to Jenny at the end tips off Bennett where she is and allows him to seize her first.
Commando / int_7fbb2a3	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_7fbb2a3	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_7fbb2a3
Commando / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Commando / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Bennett.
Commando / int_823c6e3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_823c6e3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_823c6e3e
Commando / int_828a5ca8	type	Roaring Rampage of Rescue
Commando / int_828a5ca8	comment	Roaring Rampage of Rescue: The Movie.
Commando / int_828a5ca8	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_828a5ca8	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_828a5ca8
Commando / int_82f5ced1	type	Conservation of Ninjutsu
Commando / int_82f5ced1	comment	Conservation of Ninjutsu: Dozens, if not hundreds of soldiers, and not one of them can take a decent aimed shot against the guy standing in the middle of a wide open garden shooting at them with a machine gun that should be braced on its bipod in order to fire accurately — no problem for Matrix. The wussy boss bad guy takes several minutes of dodging and fire-trading before he makes the kill. The Dragon nearly kills Matrix himself. Oh, and by the end of the film, Matrix's apparently killed everybody on the island. Foreshadowed early on by The Dragon himself, who states between the two of them he and Matrix could kill them "in a blink of an eye".
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Commando / int_82f5ced1	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_82f5ced1
Commando / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
Commando / int_830b0ac9	comment	During the Final Battle, Matrix uses the stock of his shotgun to bludgeon one of the Mooks before facing off with Arius.
Commando / int_830b0ac9	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_830b0ac9	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_830b0ac9
Commando / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Commando / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: The quad barrel rocket launcher, an M202 FLASH (which technically is a shoulder-fired incendiary rocket launcher, not something that launches explosive rockets, but that doesn't make it any less cool). It's one of the most memorable things of this movie.
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Commando / int_8344209e	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_8344209e
Commando / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Commando / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Cindy is red and Matrix is blue. For the villains, Bennett is red and Arius is blue.
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Commando / int_8411ab92	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_8411ab92
Commando / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Commando / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast From Cooke to Matrix: Also:
Commando / int_86b21114	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_86b21114	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_86b21114
Commando / int_87ab7f69	type	Sharp-Dressed Man
Commando / int_87ab7f69	comment	Sharp-Dressed Man: Cooke spends most of the film in a natty grey suit.
Commando / int_87ab7f69	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_87ab7f69	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_87ab7f69
Commando / int_8a0bc642	type	Unnecessary Combat Roll
Commando / int_8a0bc642	comment	Unnecessary Combat Roll: It actually proves useful. Matrix is in a gun fight with Arius, and the two take turns shooting at each other and taking cover. After a few rounds of this, Matrix rolls out from his cover as Arius tries to shoot him, only for Matrix to shoot Arius at the end of the roll.
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Commando / int_8a0bc642	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_8a0bc642
Commando / int_8e04fdd7	type	Dragon with an Agenda
Commando / int_8e04fdd7	comment	Dragon with an Agenda: Bennett, again. He cares little about Arius or him coming back to power. All he really cares about is killing Matrix.
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Commando / int_8e04fdd7	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_8e04fdd7
Commando / int_9059bd5d	type	Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Commando / int_9059bd5d	comment	Peek-a-Boo Corpse: Matrix has to leave Jenny and the wounded soldier to fetch a rifle so he can defend them. When he rushes back to Jenny's bedroom and opens the door, the corpse of the soldier falls out, and he finds Diaz waiting for him inside instead of Jenny.
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Commando / int_9059bd5d	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_9059bd5d
Commando / int_93cb144a	type	Unhand Them, Villain!
Commando / int_93cb144a	comment	Unhand Them, Villain!: Matrix does this to Sully.
Commando / int_93cb144a	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_93cb144a	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_93cb144a
Commando / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Commando / int_957e5fc2	comment	Bennet tries to make one against John with a sidearm during his Villainous Breakdown.
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Commando / int_957e5fc2	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_957e5fc2
Commando / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Commando / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Sully is very chatty with Matrix as he's being walked through the airport and slips him some money for a few beers. At first, the audience may be forgiven in thinking that Sully is a really decent Punch-Clock Villain who isn't so bad. But then he tells Matrix the beers are so that Arius's men can have "more time with [his] daughter".
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Commando / int_95b7c400	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_95b7c400
Commando / int_963d947b	type	It's Personal with the Dragon
Commando / int_963d947b	comment	It's Personal with the Dragon: The rivalry between Matrix and Bennett is far more personal and important than anything going on with Arius, the actual Big Bad.
Commando / int_963d947b	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_963d947b	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_963d947b
Commando / int_97069d40	type	Harmless Electrocution
Commando / int_97069d40	comment	Harmless Electrocution: During the climactic fight, Matrix throws Bennett into a high voltage generator, which sparks and goes haywire as our victim who is wearing a mail vest screams like a little girl. About eight seconds later, however, Bennett immediately bounces back in the fight and is arguably fighting better than he did before the electrocution.
Commando / int_97069d40	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_97069d40	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_97069d40
Commando / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Commando / int_970c790a	comment	Matrix, the hero, instead gets most of his weapons from an implied illegal (given the fact that they were hidden in a secret room) surplus store. This justifies the fact that he uses several typical "Bad Guns" including an AK variant, an Uzi, and a Desert Eagle. Though he otherwise uses stolen "Bad Guy" guns, Matrix wields a pump shotgun in his confrontation with Arius, the Big Bad (who uses a Steyr AUG), ultimately using it to blast him out a window.
Commando / int_970c790a	featureApplicability	1.0
Commando / int_970c790a	featureConfidence	1.0
Commando	hasFeature	Commando / int_970c790a
Commando / int_9ac6b0c1	type	Sociopathic Hero
Commando / int_9ac6b0c1	comment	Sociopathic Hero: John Matrix to some extent. He mercilessly kills any henchman he comes across, fights off the police instead of trying to ask them for help (even though he, of course, doesn't use lethal force against them) and even uses some villain tropes like the famous I Lied.
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Commando / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Commando / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Bennett to Matrix.
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Commando / int_9c20a410	type	Knife Fight
Commando / int_9c20a410	comment	Knife Fight: Between Matrix and Bennett at the end of the movie. Minutes later both of them lost their knives, engaging in a fistfight instead.
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Commando / int_9cde2df1	type	Hand Cannon
Commando / int_9cde2df1	comment	Hand Cannon: Among the various weapons Matrix brought to the island is a Desert Eagle pistol. In an inversion of Bottomless Magazines, he fires it six times from a eight or nine-round magazine before it runs dry and switches to a shotgun.
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Commando / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Commando / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: During the opening titles, we see Matrix teaching his daughter martial arts. While she never actually uses said martial arts, this is a subtle hint that she's not quite as helpless as she seems, as demonstrated at the climax of the film when she manages to break out of the room she's been locked in without anyone noticing.
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Commando / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
Commando / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Hoo, boy, is Matrix ever. Could have been called One-Man Army: The Movie.
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Commando / int_9edbda07	type	Elite Mooks
Commando / int_9edbda07	comment	Elite Mooks: Cooke boasts about being a former Green Beret. Matrix is unimpressed, but in fairness to Cooke he gives Matrix probably his toughest fight in the movie aside from Bennett and Arius.
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Commando / int_9f81bd21	type	Stealth Parody
Commando / int_9f81bd21	comment	Stealth Parody: The film is extremely tongue-in-cheek, and has a healthy sense of humour about how ridiculous '80s action films were while simultaneously embracing everything that made them awesome.
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Commando / int_9fde2eb1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Commando / int_9fde2eb1	comment	Matrix's Pre Ass Kicking One Liner to Cooke is possibly one to Rambo:
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Commando / int_a05abbc8	type	Throwing Down the Gauntlet
Commando / int_a05abbc8	comment	Throwing Down the Gauntlet: Matrix convinces Bennett to let go of Jenny by playing to his inner Knife nut. Since Bennett can't resist the possibility of sticking his knife in Matrix, it works.
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Commando / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Commando / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: After Cindy botches Matrix's attempt to tail Sully undetected, resulting in cops almost killing Matrix and Sully almost succeeding to call in the kill order on Jenny, she has a change of heart and starts to help him. After she jumps back in the car with him, she starts freaking out over everything that just happened, as seen in the page quote.
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Commando / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Commando / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: The two unnamed henchmen who alert Arius Matrix's presence on Val Verde in the climax are left unaccounted for.
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Commando / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Commando / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: With an army that is that incapable of hitting the broad side of a barn, no wonder Matrix could take on 122 men and still win. see here for details
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Commando / int_a82a24be	type	Rival Final Boss
Commando / int_a82a24be	comment	Rival Final Boss: Matrix kills Big Bad Arius but then has to fight Bennett who was once part of Matrix's team and claims to be a better fighter than Matrix.
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Commando / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
Commando / int_a8559a9f	comment	Matrix forcibly tries to get Cindy to help him after explaining his situation by having her put on a honeypot routine in an attempt to Sully, however Cindy doesn't believe Matrix's outlandish (yet true) story like any normal person would (Seriously, how often does something as crazy as being forced to kill a South American president or risk losing your daughter happen in Real Life?) and the first chance she gets, she asks a security guard to help her get away from Matrix, blowing his cover — it's not until Sully recognizes John and starts shooting at him that Cindy believes him and tries to help him.
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Commando / int_a8a0603e	type	Juggling Loaded Guns
Commando / int_a8a0603e	comment	Juggling Loaded Guns / Had the Silly Thing in Reverse: After Matrix gets locked up in a police van, Cindy tries to free him with an M202 "Flash" four-barrel rocket launcher. Unfortunately she points the wrong end at the target and blows up the shops behind her. Remember to read which end is the front when handling heavy weapons such as rocket launchers* Also pay attention to what they're firing. The M202's rockets weren't explosive: they were white phosphorous warheads. The van Arnie was in would have been incinerated. That would be bad..
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Commando / int_a8c462db	type	Super-Senses
Commando / int_a8c462db	comment	Super-Senses: Matrix can smell 'em coming.
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Commando / int_a9667a3b	type	Hero Insurance
Commando / int_a9667a3b	comment	Hero Insurance: During the course of the film, Matrix steals and/or damages several vehicles, breaks into a gun shop, steals an arsenal of firearms, escapes from police custody, beats up a bunch of mall security guards and kidnaps an innocent bystander, and kills two unarmed villains, one in front of a witness. It's hard to imagine rescuing a family member as a sufficient legal defense to cover all of that.
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Commando / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Commando / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Matrix exploits Bennett's bloodlust to coax him into a final fight and ultimately defeat him.
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Commando / int_abdf1659	type	Bodyguarding a Badass
Commando / int_abdf1659	comment	Bodyguarding a Badass: General Kirby assigns two of his soldiers to protect Matrix, who is a One-Man Army.
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Commando / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Commando / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: General Kirby leaves behind two soldiers to protect Matrix and his daughter, describing them as "real good, but not as good as you". One of them are killed as soon as he flies off, while the other one gets badly wounded, loses his weapon, and only has time to trade some lines with Matrix before he's unceremoniously finished off off-screen.
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Commando / int_ad68d006	type	Elevator Snare
Commando / int_ad68d006	comment	Elevator Snare: Justified. Matrix jumps on top of the elevator car the chase-ee is taking.
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Commando / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Commando / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: You know the "You're a funny guy, Sully. I like you" line? That comes right after Sully taunted Matrix about his daughter being potentially gang-raped.
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Commando / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Commando / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: After John Matrix is dropped off at the airport, he promises Bennett, "I'll be back!" Bennet calls out as Matrix is lead away by his goons, "I'll be ready, John."
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Commando / int_b2cdd776	type	Bottomless Magazines
Commando / int_b2cdd776	comment	Bottomless Magazines The belt of ammo hanging from Matrix's M60 gets longer and longer with each cut. The Valmet M78 machine gun Matrix carries in the final assault shoots twenty times more ammo from its 30-round box magazine than it can realistically carry, and is never shown being reloaded. Averted, though, with the rocket launcher, which fires exactly four times over the course of the film before Matrix discards it. Also averted with Cooke's revolver during the motel room fight. You can easily count the gunshots, so you know that Cooke's gun is empty before he does. Inverted with Matrix's Desert Eagle, which fires six shots before he discards it, two or three shots less than the magazine's capacity (given the film's time frame it would have carried 8 or nine shots depending on the caliber).
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Commando / int_b3f4bf22	type	Pants-Positive Safety
Commando / int_b3f4bf22	comment	Pants-Positive Safety: Early in the film, Matrix is shown keeping his Beretta sidearm in his pants.
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Commando / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Commando / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: Very era-specific form of father rejecting his child's pop music as Matrix scorns Boy George: Matrix's Pre Ass Kicking One Liner to Cooke is possibly one to Rambo:
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Commando / int_b628db4c	type	"Hey, You!" Haymaker
Commando / int_b628db4c	comment	Matrix has Cindy pretend to be a hooker in Sully's hotel room. Doesn't quite work as Cooke is still wary, but he still misses Matrix hiding behind the door until the "Hey, You!" Haymaker.
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Commando / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Commando / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Bennett. One of the reasons Matrix threw him out of his unit was because he liked killing too much.
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Commando / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
Commando / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: The other reason Matrix could take on the army presented and win.
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Commando / int_bfad4265	type	I Have You Now, My Pretty
Commando / int_bfad4265	comment	Sully mocks and taunts Matrix as he's about to board the plane, implying they'll have fun with his daughter while he's away. This is what prompts the famous "You're a funny guy, Sully. I like you." line.
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Commando / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
Commando / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: Cooke kills Forrestal in the beginning of the film by running him over with the car he's selling.
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Commando / int_c2ecf3b8	type	Show Some Leg
Commando / int_c2ecf3b8	comment	Show Some Leg: Matrix has Cindy pretend to be a hooker in Sully's hotel room. Doesn't quite work as Cooke is still wary, but he still misses Matrix hiding behind the door until the "Hey, You!" Haymaker. Later Cindy pulls this ploy off on her own initiative, pretending to be a hooker to distract a pair of cops taking John away in a police truck.
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Commando / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
Commando / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: How Matrix disposes of Henriques on the plane.
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Commando / int_c3245c20	type	I Lied
Commando / int_c3245c20	comment	I Lied: Matrix when he said he would kill Sully last.
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Commando / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
Commando / int_c36cba70	comment	Mooks: Lampshaded hard by Bennett himself, who calls them a bunch of nothing play soldiers trying to talk tough and that if it came down to a fight he and Matrix could kill them "in a blink of an eye". Sure enough, Matrix wipes them all out himself at the climax with the only damage sustained being the nearby explosion of a lucky grenade.
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Commando / int_c37a7fd9	type	No, You
Commando / int_c37a7fd9	comment	No, You: "Fuck you, asshole." (Click!) "Fuck you, asshole."
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Commando / int_c4a1d337	type	Muscles Are Meaningful
Commando / int_c4a1d337	comment	Muscles Are Meaningful: Matrix is played by the most famous body builder of all time, and he's a Showy Invincible Hero. Cooke is played by the physically imposing Bill Duke, and he's one of the only two villains to present Matrix with a serious challenge.
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Commando / int_c563ee89	type	Pipe Pain
Commando / int_c563ee89	comment	Pipe Pain: Twice in the final fight with Bennett. Bennett picks up a pipe which he uses as a bludgeon. Matrix picks another, bigger pipe which he uses to impale Bennett.
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Commando / int_c86a6f38	type	Cannon Fodder
Commando / int_c86a6f38	comment	Cannon Fodder: Arius' entire army is little more than target practice for Matrix. Lampshaded early on by Bennet, who states they're nothing and is amused by their attempts to talk and act tough.
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Commando / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Commando / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Bennett and Cooke.
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Commando / int_ca04edd6	type	Charles Atlas Superpower
Commando / int_ca04edd6	comment	Charles Atlas Superpower: The first time Matrix ever appears in the movie, he's carrying by himself a whole tree trunk he just cut down. Using only one arm. Early on, Matrix is trying to chase some bad guys but the power to his truck is cut, so he pushes it and drives it down a hill. Then there's the plane escape. Ripping a car seat out of the car with his bare hands. A more subtle one: Matrix is impeded by a padlock and chains, so he just rips them off. Ripping a phone booth out of the ground and hoisting it over his with Sully still inside. Righting Sully's flipped car. Nailing soldiers with perfect headshots while hip firing. Holding Sully over the edge of a cliff with one outstretched arm, which he (potentially sarcastically) claims is his "weak arm". Bennett too has his moments, such as ripping the hatch off a boiler furnace or body-slamming through a boarded up window.
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Commando / int_cd23ee7d	type	Colonel Badass
Commando / int_cd23ee7d	comment	Colonel Badass: John Matrix.
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Commando / int_ce1c73e2	type	Just Plane Wrong
Commando / int_ce1c73e2	comment	Just Plane Wrong: Several in the airport sequence. Even though the passengers board the plane through air-stairs, the plane is boarded on the starboard side, not the port side per standard procedure. When opening the door to the cargo compartment, Matrix leaves it open. Under such circumstances, this would have resulted in an alert to the pilots who would have turned the plane around back to the gate to investigate. The plane itself is a DC-10-10. This version of the DC-10 does not have sufficient range to do an 11 hour flight, but the DC-10-30 does. The latter plane is distinguished by the centre-line landing gear of which the DC-10-10 does not have.
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Commando / int_ce70175b	type	Sociopathic Soldier
Commando / int_ce70175b	comment	Sociopathic Soldier: Bennett is indicated to have been one of these even before he left, as Arius puts it, "under a cloud" from the service due to how much he enjoyed killing. His actions in the film itself certainly don't show any sign he improved.
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Commando / int_cf9b131f	type	Muscles Are Meaningless
Commando / int_cf9b131f	comment	Muscles Are Meaningless: Bennett is a little flabby and lacking in muscle mass, but he's almost Matrix's equal when it comes to hand-to-hand combat.
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Commando / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
Commando / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: A random soldier had his arm hacked off by Matrix during the toolshed scene.
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Commando / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Commando / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: Everything, from walking through a mall to getting into an airplane. And getting off of one, as well.
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Commando / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
Commando / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: The extended cut has a scene where Matrix revealed that his wife died giving birth to Jenny while he was stationed in Laos.
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Commando / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Commando / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: You might think it's ridiculous to be able to happen to find some of the weapons Matrix finds in the army surplus store. The notable thing is that he breaks into the back room, where they store weapons that you'd need a license to even possess. Admittedly, Matrix couldn't exactly wait the 24-48 hours for the police check on his license...
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Commando / int_d485cb13	type	Psychotic Smirk
Commando / int_d485cb13	comment	Psychotic Smirk: Bennett, when Arius gives him permission to kill Jenny upon finding out Matrix wasn't on the plane.
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Commando / int_d63af362	type	Dramatic Ammo Depletion
Commando / int_d63af362	comment	Dramatic Ammo Depletion: During the motel fight, Cooke has Matrix dead to rights with a revolver aimed directly at his head and after a Pre-Mortem One-Liner pulls the trigger only for a loud "click" to occur and he realizes he's out of rounds. Matrix promptly finishes him by impaling him on a handy bit of broken furniture.
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Commando / int_dc579c91	type	Contrived Coincidence
Commando / int_dc579c91	comment	Contrived Coincidence: Sully just happened to park his car very close to the car belonging to the totally random flight attendant he tries to hit on. There just happens to be a tracked loader right next to the gun shop Matrix wants to break into, with the keys in the ignition, apparently. Cooke just so happens to have a copy of a receipt for plane fuel in the glove compartment of his car, which can help Matrix and Cindy discover Arius's island compound. The part at the very beginning where the man is shot by the villains pretending to be garbage-men says "I thought you'd missed me" as a set-up for them to pull out guns and retort "Don't worry, we won't." Firstly, most people would say "I thought I missed you" if they were worried about not putting the trash out. Secondly, what is the purpose for disguising themselves as garbage-men in the first place, much less ones who seem to be leaving when their mark comes out the door. Did they just happen to know that he hadn't put his trash out yet AND would come running out the door to make sure he got his garbage out on time? Cindy just happens to be a trainee pilot, allowing her to fly Matrix to the villains' lair in a stolen plane. There is some level of foreshadowing to this considering the fact she first appeared at the airport and is wearing a suit implying she was more than just a random tourist, but a first-time viewer would likely not consider these details relevant.
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Commando / int_e0a0f41c	type	Gardening-Variety Weapon
Commando / int_e0a0f41c	comment	Gardening-Variety Weapon: The first Mook killed in the toolshed sequence is stabbed with a pitchfork by Matrix.
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Commando / int_e43130c1	type	Interrupted Intimacy
Commando / int_e43130c1	comment	Interrupted Intimacy: Happens during the brawl between Matrix and Cooke.
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Commando / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Commando / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: General Kirby is blatantly inspired by Colonel Trautman. Matrix himself is essentially a tongue-in-cheek version of Rambo.
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Commando / int_e5421161	featureConfidence	1.0
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Commando / int_e6291d05	type	Percussive Maintenance
Commando / int_e6291d05	comment	Percussive Maintenance: How Matrix starts the amphibious plane.
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Commando / int_e6291d05	featureConfidence	1.0
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Commando / int_e663d3ef	type	Only a Flesh Wound
Commando / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: Averted. When Matrix is shot in the shoulder by Bennett, his right arm is mostly out of the fight, he even comments on it and can't use it for much aside for holding impromptu shields and weapons. It seems fine by the end though. Played completely straight throughout with Matrix's leg and abdomen wounds, suffered after a being a little to close to a live grenade.
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Commando / int_e90a93b2	type	Creepy Monotone
Commando / int_e90a93b2	comment	Creepy Monotone: Arius. He's very calm even when threatening Matrix and his daughter Jenny.
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Commando / int_e933b1f7	type	Follow That Car
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Commando / int_e956457f	type	Freddie Mercopy
Commando / int_e956457f	comment	Freddie Mercopy: Bennett, of course.
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Commando / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Commando / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: When Cindy asks about Sully: At one point, Arius asks Bennett if he thinks Matrix will give them any trouble. Bennett responds that Matrix will do exactly as he's told "as long as he thinks he'll get his daughter back." Matrix by this point has already admitted to Cindy that he knows they would just kill Jenny even if he did carry out the assassination, hence him going rogue. When the main villains learn Matrix wasn't even on the plane, Bennett doesn't even look surprised.
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Commando / int_ead7e42e	type	Walking Armory
Commando / int_ead7e42e	comment	Walking Armory: In the final battle, Matrix carries an assault rifle, a shotgun, an Uzi, a Desert Eagle, a rocket launcher, some grenades, mines and a huge combat knife or three. During the said battle, he pilfers a corpse for a machine gun and takes a couple rotary saw blades out of a toolshed.
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Commando / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Commando / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Quite a few. During the mall fight Matrix hits a security guard in the groin, followed by possibly grabbing Sully by the balls when he picks him up. Later Matrix grabs Cooke by the groin, complete with a close up of Cooke's face as he lets out an exaggerated moan of pain. During the motel fight, and another possibly off-screen groin attack when Matrix takes out a mook at the bad guy's secret hideout. Finally, a mook catches an axe between the legs in the extended toolshed scene. Bennet tries to make one against John with a sidearm during his Villainous Breakdown.
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Commando / int_eb28ab57	type	Bound and Gagged
Commando / int_eb28ab57	comment	Bound and Gagged: Jenny is presented this way to Matrix by the bad guys, in order to get him to comply.
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Commando / int_eb28ab57	featureConfidence	1.0
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Commando / int_ed503b22	type	Match Cut
Commando / int_ed503b22	comment	Match Cut: The Seaplane Matrix and Cindy is on makes its landing near Arius' Island hideout... just as the other plane Matrix was supposed to be on board lands in Val Verde airport.
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Commando / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
Commando / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Arius recruits his Mooks (aside from Bennett and possible his other higher-ups) on the basis of loyalty. Unfortunately this comes at the expense of competence.
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Commando / int_f16da697	featureConfidence	1.0
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Commando / int_f39d7dbc	type	You Will Be Spared
Commando / int_f39d7dbc	comment	You Will Be Spared: "You're a funny guy, Sully. I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last." He lied.
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Commando / int_f4a5b281	type	Ceiling Cling
Commando / int_f4a5b281	comment	Ceiling Cling: The method used by Matrix when cornered in a shed by enemy soldiers. A group of soldiers fills the shed with lead, then throws the doors open, fully expecting to find Matrix dead, only for Matrix to drop from its ceiling and eliminate the guards using the tools he can get his hands on.
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Commando / int_f9876f7e	type	Faking the Dead
Commando / int_f9876f7e	comment	Faking the Dead: Bennett is apparently blown up in his boat by Cooke in the pre-title sequence, but it's only to mislead Kirby.
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Commando / int_fae64ace	type	Heroic Neutral
Commando / int_fae64ace	comment	Heroic Neutral: Matrix just wants to be left alone with his daughter, and turns down the Army's offer at the end of the film to do just that. He kept his word too: there never was a sequel.
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Commando / int_fae64ace	featureConfidence	1.0
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Commando / int_fb6666b4	type	The Comedy Drop
Commando / int_fb6666b4	comment	The Comedy Drop: Played for Black Comedy as Matrix is holding Sully, one of the men who kidnapped his daughter, over the edge of a bridge by one ankle.
Commando / int_fb6666b4	featureApplicability	1.0
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Commando / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License – Physics
Commando / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License â€“ Physics: When Matrix throws grenades in the final battle, they blow up much faster than the fuse would realistically burn. In the finale, Matrix throws circular saw blades with enough force to rend one man's skull and penetrate another man's rib cage and heart.
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Commando / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Commando / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: "You're a funny guy, Sully, I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last". Viewers unaware of this film may have forgotten about that line, when Matrix finally catches Sully and they discover he lied.
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Commando / int_ffea0f47	type	Situational Hand Switch
Commando / int_ffea0f47	comment	Situational Hand Switch: Matrix has to use his knife with his left hand instead of his right in the climax because Bennett shot him in the arm.
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Commando	hasFeature	And I'm the Queen of Sheba / int_3a10cbfe
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Commando	hasFeature	Walking Armory / int_3a10cbfe
Commando	hasFeature	Wall of Weapons / int_3a10cbfe
Commando	hasFeature	You Will Be Spared / int_3a10cbfe

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