Last Action Hero Last Action Hero

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.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Austin O'Brien Charles Dance F. Murray Abraham Art Carney Anthony Quinn Ian McKellen Frank McRae Mercedes Ruehl Tina Turner

Columbia Pictures Corporation

science fiction action adventure comedy fantasy thriller

130 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

Recent reviews

More
  • Travis Williams

    Review by Travis Williams ★★★½

    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!

  • King Kongo

    Review by King Kongo ★★★½

    *******

  • Arnold Furious

    Review by Arnold Furious ★★★

    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…

  • Matt Singer

    Review by Matt Singer ★★★½ 5

    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…

  • matt lynch

    Review by matt lynch ★★★½ 2

    that thing where the comic is up there just totally bombing and you're the only one laughing.

  • charles scales

    Review by charles scales ★★★½

    This movie was extremely ahead of it's time

  • Gavin Rye

    Review by Gavin Rye ★★½

    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.

  • Jason Walsh

    Review by Jason Walsh ★★★★

    I love this movie so very much. If only for Arnold doing Hamlet. For many other reasons as well.

  • Denae

    Review by Denae ★★½

    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.