IMO the best combination of action & humor ever made!

Bill Paxton steals the show lol. Oh and for once Tom Arnold kind of does as well. While of course Jamie Lee Curtis' sexy dance scene is also memorable. On top of that you get one of Arnold's best and most corny one liners "you're fired!"

A vivid reminder of just how exciting an action film can be...

***This is how an action movie should be like!*** Biggest problem with most action movies is that they take themselves way too serious. "True Lies" is mainly fun and entertaining and on top of that, the action is top class! Finally a movie of which I can say: "Budget well spend!" The action really jumps off the screen but it never feels overdone or forced, which is thanks to action-director veteran James Cameron. He should stick to directing action movies like this, the Terminator movies and "Aliens". Please no more movies like "Titanic"! (not that it was a VERY bad movie) Stick to were your talent lies. The movie can be described as an American James Bond, meaning that everything is bigger and I'm not just talking about Arnie's chest. Just like the James Bond movies, it doesn't take itself seriously without making itself ridiculous. Many people seem to have problems with the whole "wife side track, story-line" I guess I'm one of the few that doesn't mind it at all and actually find it an extra addition to the story. The movie has everything a good action movie need: A believable action hero, explosions, chases, gun fights, a stereotype villain and a high entertainment value. Packed with awesome action scenes and some really terrific hilarious moments this is what an action movie should be. Not too serious and not too pointless. _Rated R: violence and profanity_ 7/10

Writer / director James Cameron gets a little silly in this intrinsically ‘90s fix of macho action and domestic fibbage. Arnold Schwarzenegger, perhaps a hair past his winking, flexing, cheesing prime, plays a cocksure American spy who balances international wetwork with a simple suburban family life. Wielding the cookie sheets back at home, Jamie Lee Curtis is his repressed wife; craving a little excitement in her middle age and getting in way over her head. Tom Arnold works a support role as the big man’s smarmy, sarcastic sidekick, while Bill Paxton makes hay with a throwaway part as the weaselly used car salesman who keeps turning up in the wrong places. It’s never really played straight, so some leeway is obviously in order, but damn, this is big and loud and crude and stupid. Like, *really* stupid. Picture Michael Bay directing a James Bond flick. _True Lies_ has zero nuance and negative chill. Even if I hadn’t seen this a thousand times back in the day (as, I’d imagine, did anyone with an HBO subscription in 1996), I could’ve predicted every telegraphed plot swerve, miles away. The memorable parts still play - Arnold in a harrier jet, buzzing the skyline of downtown Miami; the boys’ plot to catch a cheating spouse in the act; Jamie Lee’s sizzling striptease - but all the points in-between are embarrassingly bad. The humor, blunt and heavy-handed, rarely hits for more than eye rolls and raspberries, and it’s all a little too detached from reality, even for a loose comedy. Nobody seems too worried about the nuclear blast that effectively severs the Florida Keys from US soil, for instance. Instead, the explosion is played for laughs (the estranged couple reunites for a kiss against the mushroom cloud backdrop) and then hand-waved away as we race to rescue their kidnapped daughter. At the time it was released, this probably felt a tad excessive but not completely out of the ballpark. Nowadays, well... if _The Fast and the Furious_ is your thing, it’s going to hit right in the heart of your wheelhouse. Needless to say, that ain’t me.