Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a retired special-forces commander forced back into action within a single day when his daughter is kidnapped by a deposed South American dictator demanding he carry out an assassination in exchange for her life. Director Mark L. Lester strips the plot to bare essentials, using it purely as scaffolding for a relentless string of increasingly over-the-top one-liners and body counts, cementing several of the era's most quotable action-movie catchphrases. A defining artifact of 1980s muscle-bound excess, its self-aware absurdity has aged into affectionate camp classic status.