Yet, such a thing happened. Today, Arnold returns to the big screen in his first lead role in a decade. Of course, not all Arnold films were created equal. The following will highlight some of the best that Ah-nold has to offer. Character: Jack Slater Centering on a young boy who finds himself sucked into the movie world of his favorite action hero Jack Slater Schwarzenegger , Last Action Hero was dubbed a critical and commercial failure during its run in theaters.
The plot is frequently messy and some the jokes and gags feel half-baked at best. Writers Zak Penn and Adam Leff originally wrote the film to parody the type of films being churned out by megastar screenwriter Shane Black he of Lethal Weapon fame at the time.
Ironically, Black himself would eventually be brought in to do a rewrite. This is especially true when Slater and the boy end up teleporting back into the real world where Slater quickly realizes that his movie logic does not apply i. If nothing else, this film has Arnold doing Hamlet.
That alone is worth the price of admission. Insert Hunger Games reference here. Between the absurd production design and Paula Abdul-choreographed dance sequences, any attempted satire is all but buried in a thick layer of silly. The joke is that Harry's wife Jamie Lee Curtis feels stifled by her spouse's stolidity, unaware that she is married to a James Bond. She finds excitement in the blandishments of con man Bill Paxton, who invents for himself the sort of cloak-and-dagger exploits that her husband really performs.
When Harry gets wind of her wavering, the plot moves into gear with a collision between his professional and private worlds. Whether a man who lives a double life must have a divided soul is an intriguing question the film never explores. We know nothing of Tasker's past. How did he reach such eminence? Where did he come from with his thick accent and body? And how did he maintain his cover with his wife for 17 years?
Did she never wonder why a computer salesman needed the physique of a Sherman tank? For Cameron, the domestic drama is merely a touch-paper for his fireworks. He is more interested in explosions than people. The film is billed as a comedy. But the biggest joke is on those who have celebrated Cameron as a feminist hero because of the strong women's roles in his previous films.
His women have always, in fact, been ambivalent figures. They are prominent and gutsy - but so too were the damsels-in-distress of silent cinema. Linda Hamilton now Cameron's real-life partner fought hard in Terminator II for her son, but she fitted a male stereotype of how a strong woman should act - the heroine as lioness. In True Lies, Cameron shows his true colours. There is a scene in which Curtis, locked in a cell at HQ, is interrogated by Schwarzenegger, his voice specially distorted.
She wails of her love for her husband and lashes at the wall. It is a hard scene to read, but it makes you uncomfortable. On one level, it reworks the old device by which a couple reveals its feelings through disguise True Lies, indeed , like the climax of Paris, Texas, when Harry Dean Stanton re-establishes contact with Nastassja Kinski in a dingy hostess booth. But we are also watching a husband torture his wife.
The whole tenor of the film is of masculine swagger, allied to a sense that the limit to women's ambitions is a dash of romance. I can't remember the word 'bitch' appearing so often in a recent feature. And why did Cameron keep in this hackneyed old taunt: 'Women - can't live with them, can't kill 'em? The answer is that Cameron will throw in anything he thinks might stoke up an audience.
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