True Lies (DVD)

Well I must be Arnold, happy today because ive got an urge to review all his films, I wonder just how far I will really get. Well my previous review was on the box office smash hit Terminator 2: Judgement Day. This review will look at another box office hit by Arnold, however in this film he's human and he's fighting terrorists. Yup you guessed it; this is a review about True Lies. Like most Arnie, films this film has the usual, bad guys, big guns, a lot of ass kicking and the occasional use of humour. I was actually impressed by this film, the storyline was good, and the famous Arnie made himself known. The film was released in 1994 and it was said to be a remake of the ...  Read the complete review

True Lies starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as a spy who has managed to keep his job secret from both his wife and teenage daughter for over seventeen years. Both believe him to be a dull sales rep for a computer company while in fact he is flying around the world battling terrorists, in this case Arab ones who have acquired nuclear weapons and intend to detonate them in the United States. This is not your typical action thriller from Arnie as it is played a bit more for laughs and some of the violence and shooting is more comedy than brutal blood flowing action like you get in Terminator. For instance when the bad guys get shot, and they do with a body count to ...  Read the complete review

After a spate of god-awful 'action-comedies' (Twins, Last Action Hero, Junior, Jingle All The Way) Arnie made an impressive comeback in 1994 with True Lies, a James Cameron (Aliens, Terminator 2)-directed film in which he plays Harry Tasker,a super-cool American spy whose dangerous and glamourous secret professional life contrasts jarringly with his mundane domestic life with his bored and repressed wife (Jamie Lee Curtis) and their wayward and rebellious teenage daughter. The film is still comedy-heavy, but at its heart it is an old-school 80s style action flick, full of tense, over the top gunbattles and insane action set-pieces, such as a horse vs motorbike ...  Read the complete review

Plot ========== Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Special Agent Harry Tasker, who is leading a double life. By day he's a highly skilled international spy fighting crime all over the world and by night he's a loving husband and father with his family thinking that he's a computer sales representative. For 15 years Harry has managed to keep the two lives apart until he suspects that his wife, Helen (Jamie Lee Curtis) is cheating and begins to misuse his resources to spy on his wife. Opinion ========== For anybody who thinks that Schwarzenegger is a one trick pony when it comes to acting, I urge you to watch True Lies as it's one of ...  Read the complete review

True Lies was another classic action film that was butchered by the BBFC upon its first release on video in the UK. Director James Cameron was reportably so unhappy with the editing that he took it upon himself to implement the cuts personally. Still though, to this day, British audiences are yet to see the full, uncut version of the film released on DVD, which is hugely disappointing considering it is another breathtaking piece of action cinema from the director of Aliens and The Terminator films. Schwarzenegger plays Harry Tasker, a covert intelligence agent (James Bond, but with muscles) whose mission is to infiltrate Kazakhstan smuggling nuclear warheads. ...  Read the complete review