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As he did in the later "Titanic", writer/director James Cameron pays tribute to Kubrick's "2001..." by focusing a brief circular shot of a round chandelier fixture while "The Blue Danube" is playing. The movie is a hoot, with Arnold playing a secret secret U.S. government agent on the trail of terrorists. Jamie lee Curtis, his wife, thinks he is a bond salesman, as does his defiant teen age daughter. Arnold is assisted by Tom Arnold in a really good role for him. As the film progresses the stunts become even more outrageous and unbelievable, ending with a rescue chase involving a helicpter and a limosine on the Florida Keys Waterway, a nuclear explosion, and a high rise rescue attempt by Harrier jet. Great fun, slowed in the middle by an unnecessary subplot involving Curtis suspected of infidelity. Strangely, the letterboxed DVD is not anamorphic.
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Took me a while to warm up to this movie. I still think the whole is less than the sum of it's parts though. I had previously caught bits and pieces of it, but once I saw the test drive scene with Arnold and the phony spy car salesman, I was hooked. And of course Tom Arnold hiding behind a thin light pole to deflect bullets.
They are the worst genre ever. They are violent with realistic sadistic scenes played for laughs. I don't find them funny and I don't appreciate the kind of violence in them.
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Truly a diverse film with everyone having a chance to shine. Curtis couldn't have been hotter and Arnold more entertaining (in a semi-serious way).
Grits: the other white starch!
'This replaced Predator...' I find that hard to believe. Predator is my alltime fave Arnold film - even with its implausible ending - followed by Terminator. FWIW, I didn't like his Conan flicks. True Lies is an entertaining film, though IMO, sure does play on TV a lot. ~AH
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