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Arnold the Barbarian drops buck-
nekkid out of the sky and walks around sticking his arm through
the stomachs of punk rockers in this cross between "The Road
Warrior" and "Halloween," with some "Zombie" tossed in to make it
disgusting. Arnold is a cyborg zapped into El Lay from the future
whose mission is to wipe out Linda Hamilton so she can't give
birth to the guy who's gonna kill him in the year 2029. So the A-
Man gets him some Hell's Angeles threads and walks into a gun
store and tells Dick Miller than he wants a 12-gauge auto-loader
shotgun, a .45 long-slide heavy-duty handgun with laser sighting,
a 9-millimeter pistol, and a Plasma rifle with a 40-watt range-
finder and then Dick Miller says "Will there be anything else?"
and the A-Man blows Dick away in slow motion and walks out of the
store like a National Guard Armory with legs. Fortunately, Linda
Hamilton knows the A-Man is breathing heavy, so she gets her OWN
nekkid enforcer from the future--Michael Biehn. When HE lands
nekkid in the alley, he has to run through a K-Mart with cops
chasing him before he gets dressed and steals a shotgun and
starts hanging around Linda Hamilton's apartment. Arnold blows
away 20 or 30 guys when he gets insulted in a disco, but even
when Michael pumps 12 shotgun holes through him, it doesn't
matter. The A-Man just goes back to his motel room, carves up his
arm, then sticks a knife directly in his eyeball and pulls out the
eye and throws it in the sink. Then there's a lot of plot about
where Arnold came from, and the nuclear war in the future, and
blah blah blah, then a couple GREAT motor-vehicle chases where
they almost catch Arnold, and then Arnold drives his car THROUGH
the police station and kills about 20 cops, and then he shoots up
a motel room, and then there's some more chases where Arnold's on
a cycle, until a Mack Truck runs him over and bloodies him up.
Now he's p.o.ed. From now on out, whenever you think he's dead--
he's not. Four breasts. Thirty-seven dead bodies. Two beasts.
Dempster Dumpster truck destructor scene. Intestines roll.
Forearms roll. Eyes roll. One pet iguana. Four motor vehicle
chases, with crash-and-burn. Rat-eating refugees who set fires in
their TV sets. Seven quarts blood. A 77 on the Vomit Meter.
Written and directed by James Cameron.
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