80's action movies aren't exactly well known for their gritty verisimilitude. The 1980's were a decade of outrageous excess and the action films from that era really reflect said excess in the most delightfully over-the-top manner imaginable.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.

If you're complaining about it being unrealistic, you're missing the point.
It is supposed to be unrealistic. It was a fashionable genre that is long dead now, but was somewhat similar to today's superhero movies. John Matrix is a superhero. Of course, if the leading hero wouldn't have been played by Schwarzenegger, but Nicolas Cage or someone else with no look or presence, it would be indeed cringe-worthy.

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Cringe Worthy is by far the WORST way to describe this.
Yes, its a mid-80s Action Film, pretty much one of the first to start the great surge that lasted to the mid-90s, most were "Unrealistic" But that wasn't the point.
The point was pure action. The action scenes in this are great. The acting is solid and the budget was high enough to give Arnie the toys he needed to destroy an entire country lol. Cringe Worthy are the no budget, terribly acted Van Peeble Films or the Dolph Lundgren garbage that was made LITERALLY to capitalize off of Arnold. I could name 100 crappy movies that were made because of how great Arnold was between 82-90. He defined the genre This film is one of the greats.

The scene where he lets Sully go is great. One of my favorite movie lines of all time.
"Hey Sully, Remember when I said I'd kill you last?"
"I lied"

Being in the same unit as Matrix and Bennett makes you soft, since the two of them kill any danger in the blink of an eye. A carton of eggs could serve in the same unit as them and emerge from any deadly conflict with nary a cracked shell.

Yeah speaking of unit membersI wanna point out the Matrix unit guys. The other team members: Forrestal, & Lawson. They were Commandos like Matrix?? Really? Those guys got killed pretty mildly compared what Matrix went through. One got up & goes out to make sure his garbage is picked up, & doesnt try to move outta the way when the garbage men reach in the truck with guns & blows him away. Then theres happy Jack Forrestal. He at least had a loud voice when he was yelling at Cooke for trying to drive a sales car inside a building. But then he ends up on the hood of the car, & through a plate glass window. & Ta-DuHes Dead. Matrix let himself fall from a airplane into some swampy water area & doesnt get a scratch? Are they sure that Matrix didnt kick them 2 outta his unit also?

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You are not a UNIT MEMBER so you do not understand this great movie.

Unrealistic, but I wouldn't say cringe worthy.
COMMANDO is what THE EXPENDABLES films should have been like.
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Unrealistic for anyone not named Arnold, yeah. This is just the kinda stuff Arnie does.