Last Action Hero
1993 Directed by John McTiernan
Synopsis
This isn't the movies anymore.
Danny is obsessed with a fictional movie character action hero Jack Slater.. When a magical ticket transports him into Jack's latest adventure, Danny finds himself in a world where movie magic and reality collide. Now it's up to Danny to save the life of his hero and new friend.
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There definitely should have been a greater effort made to distinguish the look and feel of the movie and real worlds. The kid sidekick character does occasionally grate on the nerves ("Holy cow!"). And there's an entire sequence involving the funeral for a flatulent gangster which is just kind of sad. But this movie is a lot more successful and interesting than it is often given credit for.
For folks studying the field of Schwarzeneggenomics (and trust me there are A LOT of us -- okay, just me) this is one of the key texts, because Schwarzenegger interrogates his own image for us. In so many of his movies he plays characters with double lives; usually figuratively (as in TRUE…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger as Hamlet...
Sylvester Stallone as The Terminator...
Cameos galore...
A homage to cheesy action flicks...This might be the greatest cheesy action flick ever.
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This film has the most insane amount of cheesy one liners.
This film has Professional Evil Brit Charles Dance.
This film has some unbelievably impressive action sequences.
This film completely takes the piss out of itself.
This film is about movie magic.
How can I not love this film?
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that thing where the comic is up there just totally bombing and you're the only one laughing.
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I kept thinking about how shitty Jack Slater IV would be, but still, a pretty good movie.
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'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet is taking out the trash.'
I don't care what you may think when it comes to this film.
All I care about is that this movie made me want to see Schwarzenegger as Hamlet.
Oh and I was entertained by all the puns and parodies not annoyed...entertained.
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This is a fun, meta take on the action movie genre that Arnold pretty much created. Schwarzenegger had a great sense of humor about himself and the self referential, tongue in cheek style makes it enjoyable. The premise wears a bit thin about halfway through but picks up at the end. While this never caught on with audiences, I will always put it in the plus column for Arnold. Plus it's got a nice creepy performance from Tom Noonan!
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*******
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Watched as part of my campaign to watch every Arnie film.
Last Action Hero was a critical failure on release, probably because it's a good 20 minutes too long, but it holds up ok. It has brilliant touches, which I'll be listing shortly, but it often goes too far. The line of parody is only funny as long as it doesn't get too silly. The captain's shouting breaking windows for example. However I do dig Last Action Hero because of...
1. Arnold Schwarzenegger as Hamlet. I would watch the shit out of that.
2. Franco Columbu directing Jack Slater IV.
3. The ice cream kill.
4. Robert Patrick cameo as T-1000 in the same scene as Sharon Stone cameoing as…
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There definitely should have been a greater effort made to distinguish the look and feel of the movie and real worlds. The kid sidekick character does occasionally grate on the nerves ("Holy cow!"). And there's an entire sequence involving the funeral for a flatulent gangster which is just kind of sad. But this movie is a lot more successful and interesting than it is often given credit for.
For folks studying the field of Schwarzeneggenomics (and trust me there are A LOT of us -- okay, just me) this is one of the key texts, because Schwarzenegger interrogates his own image for us. In so many of his movies he plays characters with double lives; usually figuratively (as in TRUE…
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that thing where the comic is up there just totally bombing and you're the only one laughing.
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This movie was extremely ahead of it's time
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Last Action Hero is a really interesting take up of the action genre. I really enjoyed a lot of it, the first half that throws up just about every cliché you can think of. I really liked the animated cat cop. Then the second half where Jack Slater is a fish out of water in the real world.
The film is far too long though, there really could have been a good half hour cut out that would have made for a tighter, more fun watch.
On a side note, it was strange to see a poster for the film Evil Clutch in the background of one scene. -
I love this movie so very much. If only for Arnold doing Hamlet. For many other reasons as well.
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This is such a bad movie, but I have to at least mention that at the end Death from "The Seventh Seal" (played by Ian McKlellan!) walks out into the city. Awesome.