True Lies

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Product description ------------------- VHS FORMAT. 1994, 20th Century Fox, 141 minutes, color. Item no. 8640. James Cameron directs. Although it can be debated, most viewers would tell you this is by far Arnold Schwarzenegger's best movie. Arnold joins forces here with Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Arnold and the entire cast is terrific in this story of an undercover who bills himself as a boring computer salesman. I've never met anyone in any store who looked like Arnold, but that's beside the point. He shines here, with a lot of energy, terrific action, and a long movie that doesn't seem that way at all. VHS FORMAT. .com ---- From The Terminator to Titanic, you can always rely on writer-director James Cameron to show you something you've never seen on the big screen before. The guy may not consistently pen the most scintillating dialogue in the world (and, especially in this movie, he doesn't seem to have a particularly high regard for women), but as a director of kinetic, push-the-envelope action sequences, he is in a class by himself. In True Lies, the highlight is a breathtaking third-act jet and car chase through the Florida Keys. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a covert intelligence agent whose wife of 15 years (Jamie Lee Curtis) finally finds out that he's not really a computer salesman and who becomes mixed up in a case involving nuclear arms smuggling. Tom Arnold is surprisingly funny and engaging as Schwarzenegger's longtime partner, and Bill Paxton is a smarmy used-car salesman (is that redundant?) whom Arnold thinks is having an affair with his wife. Purely in terms of spectacular action and high-tech hardware, True Lies is a blast. --Jim Emerson