True Lies The Rewatchables
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True Lies

Most Rewatchable Scene

Horse-versus-motorcycle chase

In the discussion (17)
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  • The Bond-style opening is nominated, highlighting Juno Skinner’s introduction, the tango, Harry headbutting dogs, and the skiing gunmen. The chalet exterior reportedly combines footage from several locations.
  • The skiing gunmen inspire jokes about the training and management investment required for enemies who are immediately defeated.
  • The Georgetown Mall bathroom fight is nominated. Its cigarette-pack/sunglasses gadget seems confusing, later bathroom fights are compared with it, and dunking an actor’s face in a toilet is considered disgusting regardless of cleaning.
  • The horse-versus-motorcycle chase is nominated as an exceptional action sequence that establishes Harry’s mastery of nearly every mode of transport and combat.
  • The motorcycle’s rooftop pool jump is praised as astonishing in 1994, while later Fast & Furious escalation has reduced its novelty. A horse and motorcycle racing upward in elevators makes the sequence especially absurd.
  • A proposed video outing would revisit famous movie locations, beginning with the hotel elevator. Harry dangling from the roof and persuading the horse to back up are also praised.
  • Harry telling Gib that Helen is having an affair is nominated for Tom Arnold’s reaction and the missing ice-trays line. The ice-tray detail reportedly came from Arnold’s real divorce.
  • The Corvette test drive with Simon unknowingly describing Harry’s wife is nominated for Paxton’s extravagant dirty talk and the cut from refusing to share his secret to freely explaining it over food.
  • Helen’s hotel seduction is nominated as the clear personal most-rewatchable choice, praising Curtis’s transformation of her dress and appearance and the scene’s sexual impact.
  • Curtis in Perfect is compared with her True Lies appearance; Perfect is criticized as having little story beyond the attractiveness of its stars.
  • Harry disguising his voice to direct his wife’s striptease is singled out as creepy.
  • The truth-serum interrogation and escape are nominated for Schwarzenegger’s calmly predicting the killings, the handcuff reveal, and the gun kicked into his hands while Helen watches.
  • The Florida Keys finale is nominated, including falling trucks, Helen and Juno fighting in the limousine, and the helicopter rescue. Miniature bridge work combined with real Harriers is praised, and Curtis and Cameron reportedly participated in the helicopter stunt.
  • The dangerous rescue stunt prompts a hypothetical about how a fatal accident would have changed Cameron’s career.
  • The Harrier rescue of Dana and the missile fired through a building are nominated despite doubts about her ability to hold on. Helen and Dana’s rapid adjustment to espionage is questioned; the final tango is praised.
  • The motorcycle-and-horse chase through the hotel and over the rooftops receives two final scene choices.
  • Helen’s dance remains another final scene choice, with a recollection of keeping the sequence alone on a compilation videotape. Gib’s nonstop jokes entering Omega Sector are also praised.