True Lies

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Thriller

Arnold Schwarzenegger	Harry Tasker
Jamie Lee Curtis	Helen Tasker/Doris/Michelle
Tom Arnold	Albert 'Gib' Gibson
Bill Paxton	Simon
Tia Carrere	Juno Skinner
Art Malik	Salim Abu Aziz
Eliza Dushku	Dana Tasker
Grant Heslov	Faisil
Charlton Heston	Spencer Trilby
Marshall Manesh	Jamal Khaled

Director	James Cameron
Producer	Stephanie Austin; James Cameron
Writer	Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël

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, True Lies is a blast. --Jim Emerson, Amazon.com