Even without a sociopolitical analysis, this bloated film isn’t as fleet-footed or perpetually exciting as the material warrants.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 22, 2024

'True Lies' is a James Bond fantasy mixed with a genuine love story. It’s a seamless marriage between laugh-out-loud comedy and cartoonish violence.

| Jan 16, 2024

Each of these moments and many others continue to generate laughs, as do the stunt work, the set pieces, and the general character work by the performers. In short, if you loved TRUE LIES before, the film ages well enough that one won’t regret a revisit.

| Dec 20, 2023

Cameron delivered audiences a spectacle that, while narratively flawed, certainly gave audiences plenty of bang for their buck.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 9, 2023

...a palpably overlong yet mostly compelling endeavor...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2022

A Cameronian slog of epic proportions featuring a lot of complicated action scenes, bombs, and racist portrayals of people from the Middle East, all led by Schwarzenegger whose charm dulled with the new millennium.

| Jan 5, 2022

A lot of the amusement springs from the fact that the bad guys get it real good, as only the likes of the musclebound Schwarzenegger can render.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Sep 25, 2020

True Lies is a good but not great movie. It has phenomenal set pieces and a good cast, but it's tough to totally argue for a movie with such bad things attached to it

| Jun 25, 2020

Schwarzenegger's comic confidence and good-guy tenacity are a perfect balance, while Curtis wins our sympathy as his repressed wife, showing some deadpan drollery of her own.

| Jul 16, 2019

TRUE LIES should get a remake and benefit from all of the special effects breakthroughs that James Cameron has championed in the last twenty-five years and get rid of the basic racism and sexism that otherwise besmirch a fun, action-packed movie.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 24, 2019

After Harry handily humiliates Simon at every turn, True Lies charges back into its anti-Arab jihad.

| May 30, 2018

Writer/director James Cameron has made his fair share of groundbreaking, great movies, but pound for pound True Lies is his most flat-out entertaining.

| Original Score: A | Jul 15, 2014

Proves that throwing everything at the camera sometimes works a treat.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2011

Far be it from me to say that True Lies isn't a fun lark of an action-comedy, but it could stand to be a lot more fun and a lot more larking.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 17, 2009

James Cameron is able to present his usual high-impact action, pushing the film out of the realm of simple Bond spoofing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 11, 2009

An affectionate homage to James Bond movies, ratcheted up to meet the action/adventure expectations of today's audiences.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 11, 2009

If the Gulf War gave you an insatiable taste for burning oil and burning Arabs, this extravaganza will tide you over for at least a couple of days.

| Dec 11, 2009

Providing its share of fun in stretches, pic ultimately overstays its welcome with a level of mayhem that will simply feel like too much for any marginal fan of the genre.

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| Original Score: 7.5/10 | Sep 19, 2007

I've said it before, and I'll go on saying it unless he flips out and does an Edith Wharton adaptation: Nobody does action like James Cameron.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 5, 2007