This was one of my childhood favorites and I've just rewatched it in 2020. I'm going to disregard nostalgia of any kind: this film is the essence of what an action film should be about. Hardly any exposition, just good old-school, dynamic, enjoyable action. It's so refreshing to vicariously go back to a time when it was ok to not be pretentious and add an hour of freshman-year-philosophy when it's completely unnecessary. They tried to bring the spirit of the action film back in The Expendables, but ended up making a farce/parody, where all the actions stars of the past made fun of themselves. Commando was great, because all of the ridiculous one-liners and action scenes were delivered with utmost conviction. There is a number of great, "serious" films and Commando isn't one of them - it's supposed to be a FUN, feel-good movie. Schwarzenegger at his best.
