5. True Lies (1994)
Writer/Director/Producer I covered
True Lies a little in my recent
Top Ten Brilliantly Awful Arnie One Liners and its safe to say that it belonged as high as it placed on that list; compared to Camerons other films it doesnt have quite the same epic feel but it is still a very fun action romp. True Lies has a nice little cast (and
Tom Arnold) and Cameron stalwarts
Bill Paxton and the big man himself Mr.
Schwarzenegger both make their third appearances in Cameron films. The role of Harry Tasker was perfect fodder for mid-nineties Arnie, as he shot and wise-cracked his way through an army of overtly racist, stereotypical middle-eastern terrorists. The action sequences have that bold Cameron vibe to them and we also have the standard transformation of a vulnerable female character into an empowered bad-ass as Taskers doting wife
Jamie Lee Curtis slowly fathoms out just what it is her husband does for a living, though not on a par with Ripley and Sarah Connor, Helen Tasker is still a great character in the Cameron mould. All in all a lot less serious than most of Camerons other work, but no less enjoyable and while not as notorious as the rest of his directorial work it is more than worthy of sharing a list with some of the classics found here.