- Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere
- Directors: James Cameron
- Writers: James Cameron, Claude Zidi, Didier Kaminka, Simon Michaël
- Producers: James Cameron, Lawrence Kasanoff, Pamela Easley
- Language Arabic, English, French, German
- Classification: R (Restricted) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Run Time: 141 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004RQ16
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 15,970 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
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
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I just rewatched this film tonight, after having not seen it for many years. OMG, not only does this film still hold up, it puts many modern action films to shame. Amazingly well directed, funny, exciting and griping, with some brilliant action scenes. Very good score by Brad Fidel. Arnold is never better and Jamie Lee Curtis is very good too.
I believe this film is cut in the UK, so you might want to import. Although I have the first pressing of the UK DVD, which had the uncut version on there by mistake. You can find this DVD because it has the old style '15' rating symbol, before they changed. That's the DVD you want. For the second pressing of the DVD, they put the cut version on there.
Update as of 2011: apparently the new region 2 release by 20th Century Fox is uncut.
I believe this film is cut in the UK, so you might want to import. Although I have the first pressing of the UK DVD, which had the uncut version on there by mistake. You can find this DVD because it has the old style '15' rating symbol, before they changed. That's the DVD you want. For the second pressing of the DVD, they put the cut version on there.
Update as of 2011: apparently the new region 2 release by 20th Century Fox is uncut.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
I had been looking for the anamorphic "uncut" version of True Lies and found this DVD on Amazon UK. Although I live in the USA I ordered this PAL DVD since I own a multi-region Blu-ray/DVD player that can handle this disc. It played flawlessly on my system and the 4% speedup from PAL to NTSC was not noticed by my wife or I when viewing, however I've learned some people are highly sensitive to the speedup. Rumors on the internet state that James Cameron is working on a Blu-ray version for release in late 2010 or early 2011.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
I don't think this film is anywhere near as bad as everyone says it is! It's Arnie's attempt at being James Bond (he even sports a tuxedo in an early scene) and it's got lots of great action scenes (explosions, Mr Schwarzenegger hanging off a Harrier Jump Jet, and much more). But it differs from the Bond formula in that Arnie's character Harry keeps his top-secret position as international spy secret from his wife (Jamie Lee Curtis). So we're spared the Bond-trademarked multi-seduction sexism, but instead we get marriage comedy scenes and a variation on the familiar secret-identity theme. But, as I said, I still think it's an entertaining way to spend an hour and a half, and it's among Arnold's better works.
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True Lies - A True Gem
This is probably my favorite Arnie movie. It's like the combination of Rambo playing the part of Kindergarden Cop and it works. Read more
Published 13 days ago by Bob Weston
Action and Comedy - made for Arnie!
This is probably one of my favourite movies as it blends some excellent action sequences with a number of great comedic scenes. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mike Thomas
Finally a Proper Uncut Anamorphic Release
Finally a proper uncut anamorphic version. The previous R2 release was missing a lot of scenes. The R1 release though uncut, wasn't anamorphic. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Tim Tavares
SO CAN ANYONE HELP ME GET THE UNCUT DVD?
I bought the 3 Arnie dvd featuring this-the cut version-Twins & Kindergarten Cop.Love the film but the cuts are infuriating.Are both the Universal & Fox releases cut?
Published 2 months ago by Mr. E. A. Dobson
True Lies
My favourite film! I owned this on VHS but the price of the DVD was too good to pass up. The action and the humour goes on and on, not to be missed!
Published 3 months ago by Biddie
A Birthday Gift
It has been bought as a Birthday gift, and arrived in brilliant time. Many thanks for a 1st class transaction
Published 3 months ago by Lyn
The perfect movie
What can I say that others haven't? This movie has got it all: it is fun, full of action, is totally unPC, Arnie at its best and Jamie Curtis is brilliant.
Published 5 months ago by C. Stuart-monteith
xmas gift
this dvd was purchased as an xmas gift, it arrived promptly and was packaged well. i anticipate it being a perfectly playable dvd
Published 6 months ago by raenbow
Cameron and Schwarzenegger team up again for a riot of an action...
True Lies sees Arnold Schwarzenegger play Harry Tasker, to his wife Helen (Jaimie Lee Curtis) and daughter Dana (Eliza Dushku) he's a safe husband and father working as a computer... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Spike Owen
Brilliant entertainment!
I don't by cut dvds, so I bought the German dvd on the Kinowelt label and it's anamorphic with some good extras. Read more
Published 16 months ago by James Morton
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