Category Archives: Arnie Schwarzenegger

Maggie (Review)

Maggie is an incredible tease of incredible proportions. To start with it has the greatest action hero of our time in Arnold Schwarzenegger in the lead, then markets itself as a zombie film. Then it brings the man who quipped … Continue reading

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Terminator: Genisys (Review)

So Judgment Day happened. Or it didn’t. The rise of Skynet either went ahead as prophesied. Or something else altogether. With the Terminator mythology already pretty much nailed in films one and two, every subsequent flick seems like the extra … Continue reading

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Kindergarten Cop (Review)

John Kimble (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a towering and imposing undercover cop. Crisp (Richard Tyson) is a vicious criminal. Kimble’s nemesis. His obsession. When Crisp escapes imprisonment on a technicality, the police fear that he will try to track down his … Continue reading

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Sabotage (Review)

Arnold is Breacher, the leader of a DEA special ops team chock full of hotheads and yahoos, all with similarly cheesy nicknames of their own. When the team gets a little creative and try to skim a little off the … Continue reading

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Expendables 3 (Review)

I’m amazed that this ‘dead cat bounce’ is now in the third edition. On this occasion the Expendables – still fronted by Sly’s Barney Ross – run into two more men involved at the genesis of the crew. One Dr … Continue reading

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‘The Ten’ – Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Top 10 Films

There are several so called Hollywood Megastars whose career achievements don’t hold up to much scrutiny. Put this way, if the imdb ‘Best Known For…’ list that shows your four biggest ‘hits’ on your page contains the only decent films … Continue reading

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Commando (Review)

Arriving hot on the heels of The Terminator, Commando is a quickie one note cash-in of a film trying to capitalise on the sudden fame and immediate star power of a young Arnold Schwarzenegger. It is cliched, clumsy and stilted. … Continue reading

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Escape Plan (Review)

There’s the old joke about bad films that goes ‘this film wasn’t released. It escaped.’ In the case of Escape Plan, the crime of this film isn’t egregious or especially heinous, but it is such a recidivist that I can’t … Continue reading

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Conan the Barbarian 1982 & Conan the Destroyer 1984: Two shirtless reviews

Given what follows it is quite amazing that Conan the Barbarian opens with a quote from Nietzsche. When Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones in a Jessie J wig) lays waste to young Conan’s village and leaves him holding the hand … Continue reading

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Last Action Hero (Review)

Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is John McClane, Dirty Harry and James Bond combined – at least in terms of box office success and public acceptance where this film is concerned. Young Danny is his ‘biggest fan’ and is trembling with … Continue reading

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