The Last Stand Reviews
The Ooh Tray
The last stand? Poor Arnie looks as though he can barely stand.
TheShiznit.co.uk
Arnie stomps his way through a role in which every punch looks clumsy and every line of dialogue sounds like it has been learnt phonetically.
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| Original Score: 2/5
MediaMikes
"The Last Stand" could be an old episode of "Gunsmoke," with its theme of the law versus the bad guys.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
An entertaining, if not particularly longed for, return for the 65-year-old action icon.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Irish Times
The results are surprisingly good fun, popcorn-friendly, and awfully redolent of Rio Bravo. Fine by us. He's back, alright.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Contactmusic.com
Korean filmmaker Kim played with the Western genre before in his wacky 2008 pastiche The Good the Bad the Weird, and this film is just as chaotically uneven, mixing cartoon-style silliness with grisly violence.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
amNewYork
There isn't much of a story here, though it's great to see Arnold back where he belongs.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Satisfied customers may include undiscriminating action fans, Luis Guzman completists and Wayne LaPierre (one bad guy meets his reward when he trespasses on the property of a shotgun-toting granny).
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The List
As comebacks go, Schwarzenegger has chosen a really good vehicle with which to remind people of how he became so popular in the first place.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Flick Filosopher
[U]nforgivably dumb and mindless... Korean director Kim Jee-woon shoots much of the film as if it were a sexytime autoporn advertisement...
This is London
If slick nostalgia is what you're after, The Last Stand is for you.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sun Online
It's entertaining, if a little (a lot) silly.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Financial Times
It's good to see Arnie moving back to the kind of public service he does best.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Little White Lies
An action star is (re)born.
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| Original Score: 3/5
What Culture
A suitably lightweight comeback for Arnie, The Last Stand does just enough to please his legion of fans, and proves the action icon still has charisma to spare.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Guardian [UK]
Korean film-maker Kim Jee-woon gives it plenty of directorial welly, and it's good to see a film with cop cars flying through the air.
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| Original Score: 3/5
jackiekcooper.com
Arnold is back as an action hero, and playing someone near his own age. Therefore the movie is more believable and thus more entertaining.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Daily Telegraph
A zippier, zestier film than ... its own hackneyed premise suggests.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Express
A creaky, lethargic and daft action thriller ...
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| Original Score: 2/5
Birmingham Post
Many things are blown up, in some style.
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| Original Score: 3/5
