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 spy partner, and Bill Paxton is a smarmy used-car salesman whom Arnold
thinks is having an affair with his wife. Purely in terms of spectacular action
and high-tech hardware
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