I agree with the person who said there was a lot of personal drama as filler that didn’t add to the story and dragged the pace of the books down.
I thought the books are mostly OK but I kind of lost interest after book 6 and it’ll probably be quite a while before I go back to finish the last few books if I ever do.
It’s not outstanding but it is well crafted.
Iconic action scenes, memorable, quotable dialog and one liners. Great charismatic actors playing the hero and the main villian.
Good actors playing supporting characters.
Decent coherent easy to follow story.
Lots of action movies from that era don’t score highly on at least a few of those points and have been mostly forgotten.
I haven’t bothered to watch it again since the 90s.
I agree with you.
I’ll watch most of the Schwarzenegger movies from this era ahead of this.