True Lies (1994)

A computer software salesman (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is happily married to his wife (Jamie Lee Curtis) of 15 years. What she doesn't know is that her husband is not a computer software salesman. That's just a cover for his real job ..... a spy for the U.S. government! Based on the 1991 French film LA TOTALE and directed by James Cameron (TITANIC). This action comedy is great fun. What if James Bond had a wife who didn't know he was a spy? That premise is is expanded into a massive parody of the Bond movies. Its humor balanced with the action and thrills and one of the greatest stunts in movie history make it a terrific popcorn movie. Perhaps there is some unintended misogyny and Arabophobia but it remains a highpoint in Cameron's career. The lifting of Jamie Lee Curtis by helicopter from a speeding automobile just before it crashes off a bridge is a jaw dropping stunt. Today, it would have been done digitally but here it's the real deal. With Charlton Heston, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Art Malik, Tia Carrere and Eliza Dushku, who the movie could have done without.