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Matrix: Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?

Sully: That's right, Matrix. You did.

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Commando (1985) - 33 corrections

Directed by Mark L. Lester, starring Alyssa Milano, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dan Hedaya, Rae Dawn Chong, Vernon Wells (add more)

Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller

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When Matrix leaves the plane to paddle ashore, he's heading directly to the shore. But when we see him actually padding to the shore itself from a side view of the raft, you can see the seaplane directly behind the raft. Considering the direction Matrix left from the plane, the plane should have been off to the left of the shot, off camera, Not in the background of the shot. [Currents can easily account for the difference in the shots. Either the plane is not as well anchored as it could be, or the raft is drifting with the current.]
Edit Corrected by rswarrior
When Arnie's daughter is kidnapped, Arnold has got a shotgun and sees the guy in his daughter's room. Arnold shoots the guy in the head and there is a medium sized bullet wound on the guy's head. A blast from a shotgun at that range would have blown his head off his shoulders. [It's definitely not a shotgun. It's an HK91, the civilian version of the HK G3 because it's selector switch says only "Safe" and "Fire". Either rifle shoots a 7.62x51 NATO round. It should enter in a medium sized bullet wound, but the back of his head is a different story. It pretty much would blow the back of his head off.]
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This may be a bit obvious, but there is no army surplus store in America that can sell what Matrix finds there. It's basically impossible to buy automatic weapons without government permission, not to mention the grenades, bombs, and rocket launchers. [By the way the weapons were hidden behind a huge sliding wall, the implication is the owner of the store was a black market arms dealer.]
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How exactly did Cindy manage to get a hold of the rocket launcher after the police arrested Matrix? Why didn't the police put every weapon back in it's place and prevent such things from happening again? [Cindy had taken it out to the car. As John was leaving he got busted. Cindy wasn't in the shop.]
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When he is attacking the house near the end, a stuntman falls off the roof, unfortunately you can see a hint of blue crash mat as he lands. [At no point when a stuntman falls off the roof is a crashmat visible.]
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Matrix uses a bulldozer to break-in the front window of the army supply store. A highly trained operative like Matrix doesn't know how to quietly pick a lock? [I think it is safe to assume that being against the clock it would be quicker that way.]
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When Matrix is holding Sully by the ankle over the cliff to get the information from him, just above Sully's head you can see an arm holding a microphone. [Nothing is visible during this scene.]
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A general point which might apply to many films like this; why does Arnie round up so many different guns with incompatible ammo, why not just get one decent weapon and carry lots of ammo for it.  Mind you the guys on the island have to face the same logistical nightmare with AK47s plus 9mm, 7.62mm and 5.56mm weapons all in evidence. [In situations like that, getting the clip out of a pocket, ejecting the old clip and putting a new one in gives the enemy time to shoot you, as you can't shoot back. By ditching a gun, it's a lot quicker.]
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When Matrix escapes from the landing gear of the plane, he opens a hatch to access it, but doesn't close it behind him. This would have later lead to the cabin depressurizing and the plane plummeting to the ground. [No, it wouldn't. The entire wheel well of an airliner is pressurised - otherwise the tyres would explode! Once the undercarriage is retracted (typically at less than 1000 feet) the pressurisation problem no longer applies.]
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When Matrix is ambushed in the shed and the soldiers open fire, there is a random shot-gun blast that can be heard seconds after they ceasefire. [This happens every day, even on firing ranges with instructors present, shouting commands to cease fire. Someone gets a little over excited and squeezes off another round. Character mistake at best.]
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When Matrix asks Cindy how she managed to fire the rocket at the police-van, she tells him "I read the instruction book." Unlikely, unless she can drive and read books simultaneously. [People do read and drive at the same time. That's one cause of accidents.]
Edit Corrected by Rlvlk
After Matrix gets busted at the gun shop, you see Cindy just drive out of the parking lot without any police asking who she is or what she was doing there. What's funny about it is that you can even tell the police are still there by the flashing lights which are hitting the front of the store. Why would the police let a car pull out of the back of a parking lot of a store that was just broken into without wanting to know who that was? If they were good cops they would have seen her car anyway once they got to the store. [Yes, but they aren't good cops. You can see how excited they are over the prospect of an interested hooker. They probably just wanted to arrest Matrix and then get out of there. Seeing a car driving out the car park really wouldn't have interested them.]
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When he invades the compound one would think that he would keep in mind that he's there to save his daughter but he goes around blowing stuff up..His daughter could be in one of those buildings, plus if he was running around shooting people obviously Bennett & El Presidente would have immediately killed his daughter before he would be able to save her, he had no knowledge where she was and he didn't know she conveniently escaped. [He was only blowing up the weak buildings where Jenny would not have been hidden. His instincts told him that she would have been kept more inland, in a more secure building. Plus, he would have known that Bennet and everyone else would not have been in the water tower for eg, and so Jenny would not have been there.]
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Nick Tortelli's house on the compound is remarkably similar to Victor Maitland's estate in Beverly Hills Cop. Perhaps Arnie had seen BHC and that's how he knew the layout so well. [This isn't a mistake. The location was just used in both programmes.]
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When Matrix drives into the mall parking lot after Sully, it is light outside. When he chases after him from the same parking lot, it is night time. It doesn't make sense that Arnold would spend hours in the mall; he was on a tight schedule. Nothing he does suggests a prolonged period of time. [It can get dark that quickly. 1 hour is not too long to be following someone at the mall. Also, Sully appeared to have had one too many when he was driving, so he was drinking for a while.]
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At one point when Matrix is having that huge battle on the island (ya know, him versus a hundred soldiers), he gets behind some bushes for cover. While there, you see the bush RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM getting hit by gunfire, but for some reason, the bullets never hit Matrix. I guess plants stop bullets. [The bush is getting hit by Arnie's fire, not the other soldier's.]
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When Arnie gets to the island where his daughter Jenny is being held he is only wearing a bathing suit then he gets dressed and puts on the black camy make-up. Later he takes off his vest the make-up goes around his chest and onto his back, Rae Dawn Chong was still on the plane - how could he reach that alone? [Matrix was a member of some elite military unit. I'm sure he would have increased his flexibility (along with strength and speed, etc.) to his full potential.]
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The truck that Matrix pushes down the hill won't run, because the bad guys have trashed the engine, but after free-wheeling down the hill, when it finally crashes the exhaust is smoking away... [Its not the exhaust, the truck caught fire, hence the explosion afterwords.]
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Why does Rae Dawn Chong get back into the car with Arnold after she pointed him out to the police at the airport? [Remember how she pushed the police officer down the stairs? Yeah, they are after her now. She reveals this when demanding to know what all the commotion is about.]
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Bennett has just been pierced by the pipe going into a steam compressor or whatever that is behind him. When the camera draws back along the pipe to reveal the steam pouring out, look closely and it looks like CO2 from a fire extinguisher. The edge of the pipe with the "steam" coming out of it has frost on it. [How do you know the pipe was carrying steam? It could conceivably have been a pipe carrying a cryogenic fluid (liquid nitrogen lines are common in industrial plants).]
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