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...does it follow the Cameron rules? Well...
Some directors and actors are, by their respective natures, simply made for each other. James Cameron delights in spectacular, mind-bog-gling violence where a minimum number of civilians and a maximum of bad guys get killed. Arnold Schwarzenegger delights in carrying out spectacular, mind-boggling violence while killing a minimum number of civilians and a maximum of bad guys...
...movie comes across as somewhat of a weird mix. it's based on a French film, supposedly radically rewritten by Cameron a la "Three Men and a Baby." But that's not quite...
Minimum civilian casualties: When the horrified Helen asks Harry if he's ever killed anyone, he replies, "Yes, but they were all bad." Therein lies Cameron's movie philosophy. Try to avoid killing civilians. That works fairly well here. Bad people die, and die in interesting ways, too. Almost all of the good people live...
...Helen's chance for liberation: "During the interrogation, she says her life is boring. She needs excitement, to be at risk. My character realizes he hasn't given her the life she wanted, so he starts giving her the excitement right there. She was begging for it." To Cameron, the scene is open to several interpretations. "I want couples to argue about it afterward," he insists. "That's part...