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True Lies ** (20th Century Fox)
Rated Mature (at the Park &
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RUE LIES is a spy movie

that will have you shak-

en, not stirred and it
also leaves no doubt that
director/writer/producer
James Cameron can blow the
Fruit of the Looms off any
action picture.

His own Terminator, Aliens
and 72 were increasingly wilder
rides on the special effects roller-
coaster and True Lies visually
tops them all.

An exhilarating cpening crams
- a dozen James Bond action

sequences into one reel, kickstart-
"ing things off in the right direc-

Tim Bell
FILM REVIEW

sidekick who offers a lot of lock-
er-roorn (read sexist) advice about
marriage, cheating and how
women suck your life and wallet
dry. (The coincidence with his
real-life situation must have made
him feel as though he were in a
documentary.)

You alse get the bad swarthy
guys from a Middle East country
(read racism) who want to blow
up the good ol’ United States of
America.

she gets the more interesting bits,
her character is pretty thick.

She lives with a man for 15
years without an inkling that his
absences are a tad suspicious? No
office Christmas parties? No drop-
ping by his office for lunch?
Hamm, there sure are a lot of
cuts and bruises involved in com-
puter sales, eh dear?

Maybe logic is a moot point.
After all, the whole movie is a
live action cartoon. The violence
is mostly bloodless, over-the-top
noise and fireballs. The carnage is
exquisitely photographed. The
stunts and hardware are spectac-
ular with Curiis dangling (for real)
from a helicopter above an
exploding freeway.

The truth is True Lies will pack
them in this sumrner but the pro-
ducers of the upcoming James
Bord film don’t have cause to

worry.
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