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I love action movies, including other movies by Tarantino, but this one and it's sequel are not credible, and reminded me too often of bad asian kong-fu films, where the heroes float in the air and jump up to the next floor. The plot itself is not believable in most parts, and there are many logical discrepancies. It doesn't make sense that a person can beat dozens of opponents simultaneously at one minute, and the next minute fight very hard to stay on her feet against a single other person. Things happen with no good reason. The whole movie is based on an event that does not make sense. It is given that there is lots of hatered towards the hero from her adversaries, but not a single good reason why. I would not go into specific examples only because I don't want to enter spoilers if you still want to watch it.

The actors portraying both young and current Arnold have some facial similarity to him. Roland Kickinger ("young Arnold") also has the right body for the job, but here the similarities end: Jürgen Prochnow ("old Arnold") is too old for this casting, has no bodily resemblance to a bodybuilder, looks too short and his acting is too gloomy. There are also other things in the movie that have very bad fit with reality. "Old Arnold" is dominated by his wife, lacks all shred of leadership (as opposed to the real charismatic Arnold). "Young Arnold" is a loner, desperately trying to succeed, while the truth was that Arnold enjoyed hilarious success even before he set foot on American soil, and was actually brought over by a strong sponsor (Weider). I wondered whether the director saw "Pumping Iron", because he missed the real atmosphere around young Arnold, as well as some aspects of his personality. Not all is bad, but having followed Arnold since 1970 - I was disappointed. I hope a better re-make will be done some time into the future. Even a mix-up of the original Pumping Iron + actual clips from the real campaign would have made a better result. Not recommended (5/10).

Very interesting.Thought provoking.Surprising. Philosopical mystery, that touches the very essence of our existence: "I think and therefore I exist". The brain/mind is everything, and all the world that we "sense" is created inside it by stimuli that may be of false origins.