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This is another typical Arnold Schwarzenegger film. At the beginning of the movie some gang of
individuals capture his daughter and this annoys him. His names is John matrix (according to
IMDB).
Schwarzenegger plays retired
Colonel John Matrix,
an elite special forces soldier who once led an elite unit and has since left
the armed forces, resigned to live a peaceful life in a secluded mountain
home with his daughter Jenny (Milano). Unbeknownst to Matrix, the members of
his former unit are being killed one-by-one. Despite receiving armed guards
at his home, supplied by General Franklin Kirby to protect him (though Kirby
admits that they are not nearly as good as Matrix), Matrix is eventually
found and Jenny is kidnapped.
After a shoot-out at Matrix's home and a
harrowing car chase, which found Matrix's truck with no brakes, Matrix is
ultimately captured by Bennett, a former member of his unit who was presumed
dead. He is then taken to meet Arius (who calls himself El Presidente), a
warlord who demands that Matrix assassinate a political leader in his native
land, after which Arius would assume power with his personal army. If Matrix
refuses, Arius will have Jenny killed. Matrix, reluctantly, accepts the
demand.
While aboard an airplane destined for the
nation whose leader Matrix was to assassinate, Matrix kills the man assigned
to watch him, leaving his face covered with his hat and wrapped in a pillow
and blanket, while instructing a flight attendant to not disturb the man, as
he was "dead tired". Matrix then makes his way down to the landing
gear, where he jumps out of the plane in the middle of take-off, landing in a
small marsh. Setting his watch for the approximate time of the flight, Matrix
sets out to find the whereabouts of Jenny before the plane lands. If he is
noticeably absent Jenny will be killed.
Matrix's first target is Sully, one of
Arius' men who was tasked with driving Matrix to the airport. Matrix begins
following Sully, who takes the time to attempt (and fail) to pick up Cindy,
an off-duty flight attendant (Chong). Matrix tells Cindy of the disaster that
has befallen he and Jenny, and beseeches her for her help. She somewhat
reluctantly agrees. Matrix instructs her to follow Sully to a local mall,
where Cindy reports Matrix as a kidnapper. After a daring battle with mall
security, and after Sully identifies Matrix as being the source of chaos in
the mall, a chase ensues, with Matrix (and Cindy) in pursuit of Sully. They
finally catch Sully, and after Matrix takes the keys to his motel room, Sully
is dropped off the side of a mountain (despite Matrix promising to kill him
last).
The search continues at the motel, where
Matrix confronts Cooke (Duke), a Green Beret. After Matrix kills Cooke
(saying that he eats "Green Berets for breakfast, and, right now, I'm
very hungry!"), impaling him on a table leg, he and Cindy take Cooke's
car and drive off to an arms warehouse where they learn the location of the
island where Arius' mansion is located and, presumably, where Jenny is being
held.
Seeing the potential for a major
fire fight, Matrix breaks into a gun shop, and steals an extremely large
amount of firepower ranging from pistols, shotguns and assault rifles to
grenades, remote explosives, and a rocket launcher. Before he can leave with
his last handful of weaponry, the police catch Matrix and arrest him, but not
before most of the arsenal was already loaded in Cooke's car, which Cindy was
driving. Using the rocket launcher, Cindy aids Matrix in escaping police
custody and they head off to a marina where they commandeer a seaplane.
They land the plane off the coast of the
island where Arius was located, and Matrix instructs Cindy to contact General
Kirby, informing him that "all hell was going to break loose."
Matrix swims ashore, arms himself, and proceeds to Arius' villa. It is there
that Matrix wages a one-man war against Arius' army, killing nearly all of
them and destroying numerous buildings and vehicles as he makes his way to
Arius' mansion.
Once in the mansion, Matrix confronts
Arius in a gunfight. He kills Arius, unloading several shotgun shells into
the man, when he hears Jenny calling from the basement. In the basement,
Matrix finds Jenny, but not before Bennett finds Matrix, shooting him in the
upper arm. Matrix convinces the sadistic Bennett to put down the gun and face
him in a knife fight, which results in Bennett being impaled by a steam pipe
(and Matrix telling him to "let off some steam").
The "war" now over, and Kirby's
men finally arriving, Matrix, Cindy, and Jenny fly off into the sunset.
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