10 Hit Movies That Somehow Never Got A Sequel

1. True Lies

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Back in the days when he actually used to make movies on a regular basis, James Cameron unleashed the over-the-top and tongue-in-cheek True Lies into the world in the summer of 1994 and the end result was the director's most uproariously entertaining movie yet with (surprise surprise) cutting edge visual effects that still hold up today.

The plot is absolute nonsense as it tends to be in these kinds of high-concept blockbusters, but Cameron knows this; the real pull of the movie comes from seeing Arnold Schwarzenegger give a career-best performance alongside Jamie Lee Curtis in Golden Globe-winning form as they navigate their way through a series of increasingly-ridiculous action.

The ending couldn't have signposted a sequel harder if it tried, but when Cameron b*ggered off to do the boat movie everything else took a back seat. But hey, it worked out well for him in the end.

A sequel was being planned at one point, but after the September 11 attacks Cameron succinctly put it that 'terrorism wasn't funny anymore'. Had they struck while the iron was hot, a potential True Lies franchise could have battled the Bond series for cinematic spy supremacy.

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