True Lies
1994 Directed by James Cameron
Synopsis
When he said I do, he never said what he did.
Special agent Harry Tasker is a top spy in the ultra-secret Omega Sector -- but his wife thinks he's just a boring computer salesman. When Harry's identities collide, the Taskers find themselves in the clutches of international terrorists, fighting to save their marriage and their lives.
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"DA BRIDGE IS AAUUUT!"
the best (and the most) American action film of the last 20 years.
mushroom cloud kiss is *the* image of Cameron's career.
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"First I'm going to use you as a human shield. Then I'm going to kill this guard over here with the Patterson trocar on the table. And then I was thinking about breaking your neck. "
Well, it's not bad. Not the action classic some people had told me it was, but not particularly bad by any sense. The action is, as you'd expect, brilliant with any scene with that Harrier passing over into sheer awesomeness, we get a lot of great lines and quips, and Bill Paxton as usual manages to be one of the best things about the film.
However, the whole middle part of the film I found slightly, I dunno, disturbing? You know the bit, when… -
Anyone with any desire to make an action film should be made to watch this first.
This is proof that sometimes, throwing everything at the camera can create a visual extravaganza.
True Lies is nearly 20 YEARS OLD, and the action set pieces still stand up to anything that I have seen since. Like THAT scene on the bridge. Unbelievable.
Shwarzenegger is brilliant in this. This is must be his 3RD best film.
AT LEAST.
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Back in 1994, $120m was considered A LOT of money.
I mean, fuck, to me $100 is considered a lot of money, but as of now the above sum is around average for a high end blockbuster budget, the bigger buggers sometimes knocking on the door of or north of $200m.
If it were made today and given the adjusted figure by its finances, True Lies would be budgeted at around $250m... and that's a truckload more green than most are willing to cough up. Heck, director of both's James Cameron's Titanic scored nearly $2b (now over that amount thanks to a massive 3D re-release) and even HE had bother getting the $200m plus for Avatar.
Thing is, back in…
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"Can you hurry up? My horse is getting tired."
This isn't much other than a middle finger to the espionage and spy genres and a kick in the balls to James Bond but with James Cameron behind the camera it's A-grade blockbuster entertainment. Here, Cameron is simply showing off and putting his feet up, and it is worth every second 'cause he does it so fucking well. After 18 years, True Lies has aged perfectly - the action may require a massive suspension of belief but it is hardly surpassed in spectacle. Only Cameron could orchestrate a chase between an Arab on a motorcycle and Schwarzenegger on a horse, and make it positively coherent. But, that's the tip of the…
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Anyone with any desire to make an action film should be made to watch this first. This is proof that throwing everything at the camera sometimes works.
This is nearly 20 YEARS OLD and the action set pieces still stand up to anything that I have seen since since.Like THE BRIDGE scene. Unbelievable.
Shwarzenegger is brilliant in this. This is probably his 3RD best film.
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Arnieeeeee! Oh God I really love Arnie movies. True lies isn't really an exception, but it might be a bit too long. Started watching this at 00.30 and stayed up waaaay over my nappy nappy bed time because of it.
I loved the double story that mangled up in the end. I guess people may find this stupid but I found it more than okay.
If you have your mind set to some mindless action mixed in with some Arnie Arghehgbnls then you are set for an entertaining night.
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Delightful bouncy breast. Oh, and it there were so many great one-liners.
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Aaawww, MAN! This was not the enjoyable rewatch I was hoping for! It was not as cool as I remembered...!
Wait a second...
I was 15 last time I saw this. That was the year it was released.
Yup, thought so; I was young and dumb back then...!
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Back in 1994, $120m was considered A LOT of money.
I mean, fuck, to me $100 is considered a lot of money, but as of now the above sum is around average for a high end blockbuster budget, the bigger buggers sometimes knocking on the door of or north of $200m.
If it were made today and given the adjusted figure by its finances, True Lies would be budgeted at around $250m... and that's a truckload more green than most are willing to cough up. Heck, director of both's James Cameron's Titanic scored nearly $2b (now over that amount thanks to a massive 3D re-release) and even HE had bother getting the $200m plus for Avatar.
Thing is, back in…
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Watched as part of my campaign to watch every Arnie film.
1994 was a year of enormous change in cinema. The overblown action epics of the 1980s were becoming unfashionable. Replaced by Quentin Tarantino's jumbled, violent and movie obsessed Pulp Fiction. The Schwarzenegger's and Stallone's of this world were about to become dinosaurs. Arnie's farewell to superstardom was this action packed spy thriller from James Cameron. It has everything you'd expect from the tandem of a great action director and a great action star. It perhaps leans a little heavily on comedy, with Tom Arnold co-starring, but is nevertheless a thrill ride.
I feel bad completing True Lies as Ahnolt's career takes a nose dive after it. With the world…
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Truly deLIEtful.
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"First I'm going to use you as a human shield. Then I'm going to kill this guard over here with the Patterson trocar on the table. And then I was thinking about breaking your neck. "
Well, it's not bad. Not the action classic some people had told me it was, but not particularly bad by any sense. The action is, as you'd expect, brilliant with any scene with that Harrier passing over into sheer awesomeness, we get a lot of great lines and quips, and Bill Paxton as usual manages to be one of the best things about the film.
However, the whole middle part of the film I found slightly, I dunno, disturbing? You know the bit, when… -
James Cameron's True Lies is packed to the brim with action, comedy, a super cast and with a wonderfully far-fetched story you just can't possibly be disappointed. Arnie is Harry Tasker, a secret agent - so secret even his wife doesn't know and thinks he has a dull job as a computer salesman. His home life is equally as dull and uneventful. Jamie Lee Curtis plays his wife who, bored with her relationship gets swept away by a stranger and is verging on having an affair. Arnie juggles his secret agent job to use all the tools at his disposal to find out more about her affair. Cameron has action movies down to a tee after Aliens and Terminator 2,…