Absolutely stupid brilliance. A magnificent, reflexive, fun, schlocky "love letter" (hate the phrase but it's true!) to action films. The first hour of this is so divine, and the second half dives into strange meta-commentaries on celebrity that I had totally forgotten. Charles Dance is fantastic. And this thing is cameo city– a buncha random appearances that make you feel like they just sent a massive email to anybody who was available. Do not understand the crossover audience for some of these gags, but that just makes me love them more. A big chunk of the script for this Arnold Schwarzenegger action film is references to The Seventh Seal. For who? For me! (I have not seen The Seventh Seal. Not enough explosions.)

When the Hollywood hamster wheel gets down to redoing films that were both critically and commercially panned, I would like to be in charge of writing this reboot! Okay, thank you!

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?

There are many films wherein a character creates a false reality in order to help cope with some trauma they've suffered, a devastating break-up (Annie Hall) or a haunting death (Romancing in Thin Air). This is the only film I know wherein a character moves from a false reality to a real one in order to cope with a trauma he's suffered in the fictional world.

And of course, that catharsis is facilitated by a character (a young boy, of course) moving from the "real" world to the fictional one.

"I don't like you. You've brought me nothing but pain."

me but instead of bringing an action hero to life it’s the kids from cyberchase

This movie cannot make up its mind on what it wants to be, unlike me on Halloween in 1997 when I melded my Captain Hook costume from the past three years with my Foxy Loxy costume from our spring ‘97 kindergarten play, “The Sky is Falling!”. Captain Fox, I called him, and told my mother he was what the fox from the Richard Scarry cartoon I liked was for Halloween, cementing it as a legitimate cosplay. For years, I thought I convinced my mother that I had dressed as a real character. Looking back, I now know she was simply humoring me, in the same way a mom says something is “silly” whenever you’re trying to do some comedy for her. No, mother, my Fletcher (Liar Liar, ‘97) impression is not “silly”, it is straight up funny!

Worst part is that in 2019 this kid probably has a popular youtube channel where he points out plot-holes and inaccuracies in movies.

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.

I think I’m going to write Jack Slater V just for kicks.

sorry but no one can convince me this isnt an underrated masterpiece when theres a scene of arnold playing hamlet and the voice over says "theres something rotten in denmark...and he's taking out the trash!" like how is this not supposed to become one of my favorite movies???

TO BE OR NOT TO BE.... NOT TO BE. 🔥💥🔥💥🔥
I’m also very interested in watching Jack Slater IV.

WHY DO PEOPLE HATE THIS MOVIE!! I LOVE IT SO MUCH!!

So. Much. Fun.
Words can't express how good these one liners are.

maraviiosa, sólo había visto parte del principio (ni siquiera había terminado el planteamiento como tal) y me ha sorprendido un montón (esperaba que fuera a molarme pero no tantísimo)

por lo demás, una película que incide bastante en kwestiones del constructivismo-empirismo radical (una película que será beneficiada por la dictadura del imaginariado)

Even better than I remember, Arnold has the best one liners.

Fuck man
This film is just as good as when i was 12

And quite possibly responsible for my particular interest in meta cinematics

Arnold’s Hamlet is the greatest thing ever put to screen.

I was laughing the whole time. If I saw this As a kid I woulda been all over this movie!

Very fun. A little cheesy. I knew that’s what they were going for, but in that case, it’s a little too cheesy. Arnold’s the only actor to this day that could do and would do a self-aware role like this.

Ser o no ser... NO SER.

💥💥

Sólo mola el rollo meta-paródico y las referencias, el resto es un poco despropósito.

This movie is so much fun - very clever, huge laughs, and some great action. I can tell they wrote the Danny character with a certain tone, you can almost see it on scripted paper but the child actor they picked is unfortunately just an obnoxious kid, out of his depth for such a nuanced and wink-wink role. It’s sad to blame a kid for a movie’s success or failure though, so we can just go ahead and bump it over to “success” purely on the power of Arnold and the unseen character of “movie magic.” The ending isn’t great, but you can live with it. This is a good achievement and remains something any fan of film should experience.