The Complete Filmography of Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold is at his best in this flick as a take-no-prisoners, take-no-crap action hero of the first order. Every time a baddie tries to coerce him into doing something, he simply kills the baddie, then does things his own way. When he's interrogating a baddie, he hangs the baddie upside-down over a cliff to make him talk, then drops him anyway. When a baddie tries to use a phone booth, he rips the entire phone booth out of the ground and throws it away. Awesome!

If not for the even more dreadful "Superman 4", I'd rank this abomination as the worst comic book movie of all time. Just as "Batman Returns" is over-the-top Tim Burton, "Batman & Robin" is over-the-top Joel Schumacher. After doing reasonably well with the tolerable "Batman Forever", Schumacher went completely off the deep end with this, his second Bat-flick. Far from being an accurate, worthy portrayal of the true and modern Batman, "Batman & Robin" comes off more as an extension of the campy, silly 1960s TV show, complete with ludicrously flamboyant costumes (the Bat-nipples have become infamous), horrendously cheesy situations, and groan-inducing dialog. It's beyond me why Warner Bros. ever thought this would go over well.

The first two Terminator movies are awesome. But this third film - unnecessary and ill-conceived to say the least - is nothing more than an attempt to cash in on a familiar franchise, and unfortunately, it completely undermines the triumphs of "Terminator 2" by informing us that Judgment Day was only forestalled, and not prevented. Yuck.