True Lies (1994)
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 141m
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Art Malik, Tia Carrere, Bill Paxton, Tom Arnold, Charlton Heston
Synopsis:
A US government agent keeps secret from his wife and daughter the nature of his work, but when they are both taken hostage by terrorists the truth is out.
Review:
An unbelievably flimsy excuse for a two-and-a-half-hour movie, a kind of Bond homage from the other side of pond allied to some queasily prescient business involving Islamic terrorists, planes and tall buildings. Having our agent hero played by Arnie and married to Jamie Lee Curtis would seem to be an unnecessary distraction, especially since it occasions much knockabout nonsense with Bill Paxton as her would-be secret agent lover. The surprising thing is that so much money and talent has been thrown at it (Curtis, Arnold and Malik are particularly good) that some of it actually works on the level of pure entertainment, even if making light of mass mayhem, hostages in peril and a nuclear explosion off the Florida Keys would seem to be falling short of good taste. Heston's CIA supremo, all eye-patch and attitude, is tossed aside after a couple of fun scenes. The last decent film its star made before he retired from the screen to go into politics.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 141m
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Art Malik, Tia Carrere, Bill Paxton, Tom Arnold, Charlton Heston
Synopsis:
A US government agent keeps secret from his wife and daughter the nature of his work, but when they are both taken hostage by terrorists the truth is out.
Review:
An unbelievably flimsy excuse for a two-and-a-half-hour movie, a kind of Bond homage from the other side of pond allied to some queasily prescient business involving Islamic terrorists, planes and tall buildings. Having our agent hero played by Arnie and married to Jamie Lee Curtis would seem to be an unnecessary distraction, especially since it occasions much knockabout nonsense with Bill Paxton as her would-be secret agent lover. The surprising thing is that so much money and talent has been thrown at it (Curtis, Arnold and Malik are particularly good) that some of it actually works on the level of pure entertainment, even if making light of mass mayhem, hostages in peril and a nuclear explosion off the Florida Keys would seem to be falling short of good taste. Heston's CIA supremo, all eye-patch and attitude, is tossed aside after a couple of fun scenes. The last decent film its star made before he retired from the screen to go into politics.
Country: US
Technical: col/scope 141m
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Art Malik, Tia Carrere, Bill Paxton, Tom Arnold, Charlton Heston
Synopsis:
A US government agent keeps secret from his wife and daughter the nature of his work, but when they are both taken hostage by terrorists the truth is out.
Review:
An unbelievably flimsy excuse for a two-and-a-half-hour movie, a kind of Bond homage from the other side of pond allied to some queasily prescient business involving Islamic terrorists, planes and tall buildings. Having our agent hero played by Arnie and married to Jamie Lee Curtis would seem to be an unnecessary distraction, especially since it occasions much knockabout nonsense with Bill Paxton as her would-be secret agent lover. The surprising thing is that so much money and talent has been thrown at it (Curtis, Arnold and Malik are particularly good) that some of it actually works on the level of pure entertainment, even if making light of mass mayhem, hostages in peril and a nuclear explosion off the Florida Keys would seem to be falling short of good taste. Heston's CIA supremo, all eye-patch and attitude, is tossed aside after a couple of fun scenes. The last decent film its star made before he retired from the screen to go into politics.