Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
Home Entertainment
Genre: Action-Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mark L. Lester
Language: English
Theatrical Release: N/A
Home Video Release: N/A
Cast: Rae Dawn Chong, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dan Hedaya, Alyssa Milano, Vernon
Wells, David Patrick Kelly
Retired soldier and single parent, John Matrix was a special forces Colonel who
once led an elite unit. He left the service to live in a secluded mountain home
with his daughter Jenny. Unbeknown to Matrix, the members of his former unit are
being killed one by one, first Lawson then Forrestal and finally Bennett. Even
though Matrix's friend Major General Franklin Kirby gives Matrix two armed
guards, attackers kill them and manage to kidnap Matrix and Jenny. Matrix learns
that Cpt. Bennett, a former disgraced member of his unit, is still alive.
Bennett has kidnapped his daughter to try to force Matrix to commit a political
assassination for a man called Arius (who calls himself "El Presidente") and his
gang of other former U.S. soldiers and mercenaries. Arius is a warlord and
dictator who was overthrown by Matrix. He now wishes to lead a military coup in
his home country, Val Verde. Since Arius will have Jenny killed if Matrix
refuses, Matrix reluctantly accepts the demand.[2]
After Matrix is taken aboard an airplane heading to Val Verde, he kills
Henriques who's guarding him and jumps into a swamp just as the plane is taking
off from the runway. Matrix then sets his stopwatch for the approximate time of
the flight. Subsequently, he commandeers the car of Cindy, an off-duty flight
attendant, and eventually manages to enlist her help by explaining the disaster
that has befallen him and Jenny. The two follow Sully, the henchman designated
to watch the plane leave, and Matrix kills him by dropping him off the side of a
mountain. Then they drive to the motel where Sully was staying. When Cooke, a
former Green Beret, arrives at Sully's motel room, he is killed by being impaled
by a broken table leg during a hand-to-hand fight with Matrix.
After Matrix learns where Arius' mansion is located (the location where Jenny is
presumably being held), he breaks into a surplus store and steals a veritable
one-man arsenal of both small arms and heavy weapons. Matrix is interrupted by
the police, who have shown up to investigate the disturbance, and is arrested.
Cindy frees him by overturning the police van with a rocket launcher.
After commandeering a seaplane from a nearby marina run by Arius, Matrix and
Cindy land the plane off the coast of the island where Arius is located. Matrix
instructs Cindy to contact General Kirby and then proceeds to Arius' villa,
fighting and killing Arius' private army on the way. He subsequently confronts
and kills Arius in a gunfight.
Matrix finds Jenny in the basement, but he is shot in the arm by Bennett. Matrix
then taunts Bennett into facing him in a knife fight, an invitation Bennett
cannot resist. After a fierce struggle, Matrix gains the upper hand and Bennett,
defeated, reaches for a machine pistol, but is impaled with a steel pipe by
Matrix before he can fire. After Kirby arrives with a military detachment, he
offers Matrix another term of service in the Force. Being tired of fighting,
however, Matrix declines, and he, Cindy, and Jenny fly off into the sunset.