Not "True Lies," which continues the chase on high-rise elevators and ends up on the hotel roof, with Arnold urging the horse to attempt a free fall into a swimming pool. The plot is, of course, little more than a clothesline upon which to hang such set pieces. Read Common Sense Media's True Lies review, age rating, and parents guide.

Proves that throwing everything at the camera sometimes works a. True Lies, fortunately, is the exception to that rule — a glorious piece of self-parody that reunites Schwarzenegger with his Terminating partner James Cameron to startling effect. True Lies movie reviews & Metacritic score: Special agent Harry Tasker (Schwarzenegger) is a top spy, while his neglected wife (Curtis) has The movie has an enormous quota of truly unforgettable action scenes.

True Lies

True Lies is a good but not great movie. It has phenomenal set pieces and a good cast, but it's tough to totally argue for a movie with such bad things I seem to like True Lies a significant amount less than most people do. And it's not because it isn't my type of movie either, Schwarzeneggar as a. On the homefront, he's a boring. "True lies" is kind of a movie,which I really love to watch. And most of all it has Arnold Schwarzenegger in it,so you can imagine that what kind f action action this movie promises. True Lies jabs directly into the doubt that shadows everything.

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He told the Los Angeles Daily News at the time, "A film should be reviewed based on whether it's successful at its stated goals. The film secured one weekend as the top movie in America but was immediately dethroned when Forrest. TRUE LIES is a movie that knows how to work both comedic and action elements in the same movie and not have either one dominate.

There's just enough action to keep us on the edge of our seats and just enough comedy to give us a break into the wild action sequences. But TRUE LIES also picks up a lot of nasty subtext from the Bond films and expands upon it (deliberately or not), and the larky atmosphere is ultimately poisoned by racism. It was executive produced by Lawrence Kasanoff and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis. True Lies, however, was all set up to launch a brand new spy series.