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Average Rating: 4.1/10
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Arnold Schwarzenegger appears as a pumped-up Shakespearian hero while an announcer bellows, "Something is rotten in Denmark -- and Hamlet is taking out the trash!" This gag sets the stage for the post-modernist action epic The Last Action Hero. The film concerns Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien), a lonely eleven-year-old boy who escapes from his bleak New York City reality by glorying in the action adventure movies of his favorite film character, Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger). Danny's friend
PG-13, 2 hr. 11 min.
Jun 18, 1993 Wide
Sep 16, 1997
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
All Critics (43) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (16) | Rotten (25) | DVD (12)
There is a lot of action in Last Action Hero, but the underlying story never ever quite works.
The pulse-pounding, sizzling pull of a Die Hard is absent.
Even if this intermixing of kid fantasy and adult shoot'em-up, Hollywood insider jokes and cheap Arnold puns, doesn't completely bowl you over, it's clever and intriguing.
Feels like a farewell, of sorts, to Arnold.
Arnold spoofs action movies, adds more violence.
Entertaining yet thoroughly uneven...
Considered a dunderheaded big-budget flop in its day, Last Action Hero looks considerably better now in its creative self-parody. [Blu-ray]
It makes more than its share of missteps, yet the core of this action lampoon delivers a decent portion of laughs and mischief, giving Schwarzenegger and McTiernan an occasion to make fun of themselves while raising a little hell.
awful
Joyless, tastelss, and soulless, Last Action Hero can't decide if it's an actioner, a comedy or a spoof.
Try as I might, I can't bring myself to hate this movie
A loud, overproduced, chaotic and incredibly stupid action-comedy that's neither thrilling nor funny.
Yeah, it's bad ... but it's not the infernal stinkbomb we've labeled it. Heck, Ahnold himself has done worse than this!
The action film goes postmodern, with results that satisfy nobody.
Inflated action mars below par Aw-nold.
A good idea that is too overblown and poorly executed.
Austin O'Brien, the child actor equivalent of fingernails on a chalkboard.
I thought that this film could've been handled a little better than it could've with Schwarzenneggers standards, but its very entertaining. The main character does a good job as being a kid with a disfunctional life, a mom who's never hardly around, no dad and the closest father figure being a theater custodian played
November 28, 2010Super Reviewer
A somewhat cheesy kids movie, but it's very funny. I really liked Schwarzenegger in this movie, he's very cool. I enjoyed this movie, it's good.
September 6, 2010Super Reviewer
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