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Some [[Arabs]] and [[Muslims]] perceived the film as conveying strong [[anti-Arab]] or [[Islamophobia|anti-Muslim]] prejudice,<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 22, 1994 |title=Muslims Protest Schwarzenegger's 'True Lies' |work=[[New York Daily News]] |url=http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1994-07-22/news/9407220489_1_arabs-true-lies-hooper |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208082536/http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1994-07-22/news/9407220489_1_arabs-true-lies-hooper |archive-date=December 8, 2015 |via=[[Orlando Sentinel]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=July 16, 1994 |title=Arab-Americans Protest 'True Lies' |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/16/movies/arab-americans-protest-true-lies.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170419182530/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/16/movies/arab-americans-protest-true-lies.html |archive-date=April 19, 2017}}</ref> with some Arab-American advocacy groups calling for its banning in Arab countries.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19940926&id=C5EpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ieoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5005,6916395&hl=en |title="Muslim leader wants 'True Lies' banned" Monday, September 26, 1994. ''The Gainesville Sun,'' page 3. |access-date=December 4, 2015 |archive-date=December 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209005544/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1320&dat=19940926&id=C5EpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ieoDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5005,6916395&hl=en |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Hajari |first1=Nisid |last2=Broeske |first2=Pat H. |last3=Thompson |first3=Anne |date=August 5, 1994 |title=Racism and sexism in ''True Lies''? |url=https://ew.com/article/1994/08/05/racism-and-sexism-true-lies/ |url-status=live |access-date=July 24, 2022 |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |language=en}}</ref> Although, real-life Mafiosi [[Joseph Colombo]] had made similarly spurious claims, back in the early 1970's, about "The Godfather" films being racist and defamatory toward Italian-Americans1
In a 2022 retrospective review, Polish writer Jacek Szafranowicz called the film "a masterpiece of cinematic fun", noting that the collaboration between the director and its main star "deserves a golden medal".<ref>{{Cite web |date=14 February 2022 |title=Prawdziwe kłamstwa |url=https://www.ponapisach.pl/2022/02/prawdziwe-klamstwa.html |website=Po Napisach |language=pl}}</ref> Commenting on the state of [[Blockbuster (entertainment)|blockbuster]] films, Scott Tobias of ''[[The Guardian]]'' and ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' wrote, "''True Lies'' is the strange case of a film that’s alternately retrograde, forward-looking, and thoroughly of its time. For better or worse, it’s a marker of how the Hollywood action blockbuster had advanced in 1994, as well as a commentary (intended or not) on the troubled state of American masculinity, marital relationships, and lingering racial attitudes."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tobias |first=Scott |date=July 20, 2022 |title=The case of the disappearing blockbuster: James Cameron's 'True Lies' |url=https://thereveal.substack.com/p/the-case-of-the-disappearing-blockbuster |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220720151254/https://thereveal.substack.com/p/the-case-of-the-disappearing-blockbuster |archive-date=July 20, 2022 |access-date=July 24, 2022 |website=The Reveal}}</ref>
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