Arnold delivers!

Rating: 10/10 (12 May 2004)

Let's get ONE thing straight about this film: This is for MEN! This is a MAN'S action flick. There is no cheesy love story to keep your date cuddled up with a pillow at night, no sub-plot about boyhood friendships, and no breaking down and saying, "I can't take it, Sarge, I can't go on!" Nope, this film is about standing up, walking tall, and fighting to the end.
The great Schwarzenegger gives one of his best performances ever as "Major Dutch", we've got Shane Black showing what he does when he's not penning a Lethal Weapon script, Carl Weathers being anything BUT Apollo Creed, and Jesse Ventura spouting out uber-cool lines like, "I ain't got time to bleed." Guns, guts, glory, and an alien with special effects that are still pretty sweet in today's "CG-overkill" world.
My one problem is that we never get to see what happens to Billy. It looked like he was going to go all awesome and then what? A scream? Whatever though. This film "makes trophies" of other films attempting to do the same. If you're tired of hearing the TITANIC song everytime your girl asks you to watch a movie with her, sit down and enjoy the testosterone with this one.