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

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

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

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.

Full Review | Jan 23, 2009

Half the time, this hi-tech action movie delivers, in a mindless kind of way: it's fast, crude and has enough explosions and cartoon-style violence to satisfy our baser instincts.

| Jun 24, 2006

As this comedy of manners unfolds, it is played for all-out action as well as satiric humor.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 20, 2003

However high your ranking on the culture scale, I defy you to watch this and leave the theatre without a whistled 'Wow' followed by a grudging 'That's entertainment.'

| Apr 12, 2002

This mixture of comedy and super-agent spectacle works well at first. But when Schwarzenegger's family and working worlds link up -- an inevitable development -- the plot becomes increasingly ridiculous and overwrought.

| Jan 1, 2000

On the basis of stunts, special effects and pure action, it delivers sensationally.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Once you get past the stunning special effects and the mind-numbing stuntwork, there's not all that much there.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

True Lies, far too technologically bloated for its cartoony plot, overestimates the human tolerance for high-tech mayhem.

| Jan 1, 2000

The fun of an elaborately scaled comic suspense thriller is that, no matter how spectacular the stunts are, the hero always seems to be operating out of the purest pragmatism.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 15, 1994