Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

True Lies
1994
****
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Arnold, Jamie Lee Curtis, Bill Paxton, Eliza Dushku, Art Malik, Tia Carrere

Following The Terminator and Terminator 2, Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron reunite for a remake of a 1991 French film La Totale!. Their third collaboration is a laugh-out-loud funny action comedy with inventive, enthralling, and memorable action set pieces. Arnie plays Harry Tasker, a globetrotting counterterrorism agent whose wife and daughter think he's a boring salesman. When Harry suspects that his wife is unfaithful, he deploys the full resources of the agency to uncover the truth in the movie's questionable and misogynistic midsection, which goes on for an eternity, or 45 minutes, to be more exact.