I’m still a bit speechless. Of course I don't expect high art from an 80s action movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the lead. But what director Mark L. Lester delivers here is sheer reactionary absurdity.

Schwarzeneggers’ protagonist John Matrix is allowed to completely go bananas, ripping cars and phone booths in pieces with his bare hands and mowing down hundreds of bad guys without any emotion. The scenes showing him in familial bonding with his film daughter Alyssa Milano are…