Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786303313344
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6303313345
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: ArabicOriginal LanguageEnglishOriginal LanguageFrenchOriginal LanguageGermanOriginal Language
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: May 23, 1995
Running Time: 141 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: July 15, 1994

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
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 (is that redundant?) 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

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: - Fear is not an option
The critical drubbing and slow box office of Last Action Hero apparently failed to deter Schwarzenegger, who again aimed for the magical ticket escape from Raw Deal macho movies, only this time with the assistance of James Cameron, then the action director who understood what women want. Like Helen Tasker, most women want a little romance and fantasy with their machine gun shootups, car crashes, and, whoops, nuclear explosions. Here we have a date film placed right inside an action flick, like a ... Read More

Rating: - A Fun Film
The movie is about a husband who is secretly a spy in a clark kent kinda way with his wife and teenage daughter. They have no idea that he is a superhero who can combat crime at a moments notice. Unfortunately his family life suffers, it is humdrum and completely the opposite to who he is when in his role as another James Bond, differing by having brute strength and loyalty to his little homemaker wife. A spin on that agent image, normally the cool cat with all the material comforts, not Harry. He ... Read More

Rating: - True Lies

James Cameron's True Lies has it all--international intrigue, double identities, a secret government organization, a bored homemaker and secretary, an apparently good husband who's a computer salesman, a fourteen year daughter with issues, a beautiful antiquities dealer, a faithful sidekick, and a terrorist who wants America out of the Middle East. When you toss in, a police horse, the tango, an apparent used car salesman who moonlights as an international man of danger and mystery, car and ... Read More

Rating: - Issues with picture format
This DVD lists as being in a wide-screen format which is only a half-truth. The movie itself is in a wide-screen format but it sized into a 4:3 picture format. If you watch this DVD on a wide-screen TV or full screen on a computer you will have black bars not only on the top and bottom of the picture but also on the sides. For me this makes the movie unwatchable and is quite annoying considering the box says the format is 2:35:1 when it actually is 4:3. You get this a lot with early generation DVDs ... Read More

Rating: - Excellent film A++
I've always loved this movie. I had it on tape but wanted it on DVD. I found it new for a good price through Amazon. I'm very pleased with this product.