True Lies (1994)
Directed by James Cameron
A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States.
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Harry has to shoot his way out of the billionaire’s mansion, in a snow/skiing scene reminiscent of the James Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
Jamie Lee Curtis, her body looking a bit, uh toned for a demure suburbanite, shimmies out of her clothes and does a hilariously sexy bump-and-grind, the most crowd-pleasing dance of freedom since Tom Cruise partied in his underwear in Risky Business.
Directed by James Cameron (the Terminator films, The Abyss), who approaches the creation of entertainment the way that some people approach nuclear engineering (and with roughly the same budget), the movie is a high-powered amalgam, combining the far-fetched acrobatic nihilism of a James Bond adventure, the bullet-spattered pow! of an action thriller, and the buoyant screwball charm of Romancing the Stone ? the whole concoction laced with a gee-whiz humor that owes more to late-night televison than to any cinematic genre.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Heston, that grand American eagle, isn't used here as a mythic figure to confer greatness on the movie, as he was in last year's Tombstone -- Cameron makes him seem hawkishly inhuman, as if Heston had just dropped by on his way to the War Room in Dr. Strangelove.
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From Luc Besson's influential Nikita , Robert Rodriguez's electric breakthrough Desperado , the aforementioned Speed ... Hell, even my least favourite action star Steven Seagal had his best outing ever with Under Siege !
Directed by James Cameron (the Terminator films, The Abyss), who approaches the creation of entertainment the way that some people approach nuclear engineering (and with roughly the same budget), the movie is a high-powered amalgam, combining the far-fetched acrobatic nihilism of a James Bond adventure, the bullet-spattered pow! of an action thriller, and the buoyant screwball charm of Romancing the Stone ? the whole concoction laced with a gee-whiz humor that owes more to late-night televison than to any cinematic genre.
This 1994 action-comedy blockbuster has actually become a bit forgotten in the oeuvre of uber-filmmaker James Cameron (“The Terminator”, “T2”, “Aliens”, “Titanic”, “The Abyss”), in the years since.
Director James Cameron doesn’t have too many films to his name (though they each pack a wallop, including “The Terminator,” “Aliens,” and “The Abyss”), but each one, with a smartly rounded dose of suspense and comedy, certainly sets a benchmark for their various genres.
Cameron, maker of "Aliens," "The Abyss" and both "Terminator" movies, ratchets up the 007 ante to brilliant, but increasingly crazy, heights.
Regissør James Cameron ("The Abyss", begge "Terminator", "Titanic", "Aliens") er kjent for å levere produksjoner av høy standard - ikke minst når det gjelder visuelle effekter; og her er det ingen tvil om at løpet kjøres HELT ut :) Schwarzenegger har, som de fleste vet, tidligere jobbet med James Cameron i både "Terminator", og "Terminator 2".
Teroristi u "True Lies" su isto što i izvanzemaljci u "The Abyss" - distrakcija koja dodatno komplicira stvari među supužnicima, ali i omogućuje redatelju najnapredniju akciju/vizualne efekte.
Hell, that line could be from The Naked Gun.
Unlike such failed attempts as Hudson Hawk and Last Action Hero , however, True Lies is a big, grandiose movie that has an immense amount of fun while never taking itself too seriously.
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Often forgotten alongside classics like Die Hard , Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Lethal Weapon , True Lies deserves it’s recognition as one of the top action films of all time.