Houdini's Magic Movie Ticket

What a cool action movie. Arnold Schwarzenegger does a great job at brining justice to the bad guys. It’s neat when the hero has some kind of advantage, because that makes him or her seem that much more believable in victory, and a hero winning is always a good thing. Arnold’s character is a retired soldier revealed to have been one of the best in the military. So when a bunch of not-so-super soldiers go to work toward fulfilling a plan to get control over Arnold, he just decimates the whole crew.

Arnold just wants to live a normal, happy life with his daughter, played by Alyssa Milano. The bad guys kidnap her in the hopes that they can use her, and threaten to kill her, as a way to motivate Arnold to assassinate some guy. I love Arnold’s opening move. The bad guys show up, take out the security guards placed there to protect Arnold and Alyssa, and somehow kidnap the daughter. Arnold goes and grabs a gun, when this cocky, relaxed bad guy says something like, “Hey, man, cool out, if you want to see your daughter again, you’d better listen what I have to say, right?” Arnold says, “Wrong.” And blows the guy away! It’s that kind of belligerent toughness that makes him so appealing. Even when surrounded by guys with guns a few minutes later, what does he do? Grabs the first rifle he can reach out of the guy’s hands and smacks another guy in the face with the butt of it. Unbelievable. And entertaining!

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