Freaking amazing. Unreal set pieces and sequences. At this point, Nolan and McQuarrie have both ripped this movie off multiple times, and none of their imitations, as glorious as they are, capture the insanity of what Cameron does here.
These stunts are all outrageous. Jamie Lee Curtis gets yanked out of the sunroof of a car falling off a bridge. Arnold chases a motorcycle on a horse! There are plane moves here that made my jaw drop. Looney Tunes stuff done in live action.
Jamie Lee Curtis entirely steals the show; she is amazing and the dance scene had me howling.
One of the funniest movies ever. Lost count of all the times I laughed so hard I couldn’t hear the dialogue anymore.
It’s hard not to moralize about how sexist or racism this is, given that public silence on the matter would probably be read as endorsement. So call a spade a spade. But it’s not much worse than most of the American military propaganda films of the last two decades either. And clearly, James Cameron is not a feminist.
But this is killer filmmaking, pretty easily about ten years ahead of its time visually. But nobody does it like this anymore. I wish we had more movies like this.