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Colombians protested their negative portrayal in the film; Arnold should be the one protesting. There is much unintentional humor in the spectacle of this giant Vienna sausage doing his level best to emote. His only shining moment takes place after the death of his family. Draped in a blanket and tottering before a background of rubble and smoke, he looks at the little corpse of his boy with a haunted, guilt-ridden look that is so genuine even the most jaded viewer cannot help but be moved...
Unfortunately, that moment of catharsis is also the last. The rest the film is bogged down in bad acting and action movie clichés. Most unforgivable of all, Arnold becomes human. Note to the director: have done with the tortured heroes, the conflicted warriors. We like our Arnold resolute, unyielding and triumphant. What we get instead is an Arnold shaken, not stirred. To see our invincible Terminator brought low by a terrorist is to receive a cinematic blow to the groin. It’s painful, it’s excruciating and it turns us completely off. Rocky...
...longer includes six-foot Aryan walls of muscle (though funny accents still abound). As James Bond, Pierce Brosnan has managed to elude age with a suaveness and wit to be found nowhere else. Jet Li can offer his lightning-quick martial arts skills to woo audiences. As for Arnold contemporaries Mel Gibson and Bruce Willis, their biggest successes of late have not been in traditional action fare. Arnold’s strength is his strength, and films like Collateral Damage haven’t done it any favors...
...perhaps too late at this stage of the game for reinvention. Arnold is confined by the Arnold he himself constructed, plate by plate, bullet by bullet. The promise of a third Terminator and a second True Lies smacks of desperation for a hit, but it might conceivably succeed at enhancing and updating his image, keeping it relevant while maintaining the integrity of his essence...
...most famous line, Arnold promised us he’d be back. It remains to be seen if he can make good on his word...