![]() At the party, Schwarzenegger meets the beautiful Juno Skinner ( Tia Carrere, looking much more elegant than in " Wayne's World") and tangos with her before accomplishing his mission and surviving a bloody getaway. To say security is tight would be an understatement the guards have machine guns and attack dogs. ![]() (He works for something called the Omega Force, which describes itself in its seal as "The Last Line of Defense.") How he has successfully managed this deception is one of the many questions the film does not pause to answer.Īs the film opens, Schwarzenegger and his partner Gib ( Tom Arnold) are involved in a James Bondian attempt to infiltrate a rich arms dealer's black tie party in a Swiss chateau. spy, who has been married for 15 years to a sweet-tempered wife named Helen ( Jamie Lee Curtis), who thinks he is a computer salesman. It involves Schwarzenegger as Harry, an ace U.S. The plot is, of course, little more than a clothesline upon which to hang such set pieces. ![]() ![]() Not "True Lies," which continues the chase on high-rise elevators and ends up on the hotel roof, with Arnold urging the horse to attempt a free fall into a swimming pool. Schwarzenegger has found himself in a lot of unlikely situations in his action-packed career, and "True Lies" seems determined to raise the ante - to go over the top with outlandish and extravagant special effects scenes.Ĭonsider, for example, a chase sequence near the beginning of the movie, in which a bad guy on a motorcycle is chased by Arnold, on a horse, through a hotel lobby. It's stuff like that we go to Arnold Schwarzenegger movies for, and "True Lies" has a lot of it: Laugh-out-loud moments when the violence is so cartoonish we don't take it seriously, and yet are amazed at its inventiveness and audacity. ![]()
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