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Commando

1985 · directed by Mark L. Lester · 90 min
23,050 feet · Prominence
1,383rd of 24,106 films scored
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How this film scores

Draw60

Lifetime worldwide gross $58m, re-releases included; about $176m in 2026 money.

Rank1,910 of 11,051In 198515 of 123

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise60

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics60 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy52

Judged directly: Camp 80s action classic, endlessly quoted.

Verdict52 of 100IMDb6.7 from 186kWikipedia27k views a monthAge41 years

Scored beside it · 982 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 60 praise 60 legacy 52averages 57, placing it at23,050 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ David Patrick Kelly

In these careers — elevation for this film

Arnold Schwarzenegger20,105 ftDan Hedaya18,368 ftDavid Patrick Kelly17,938 ftBill Paxton17,655 ft