Last Action Hero Movie
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Did Someone Say Action? [Theatrical]
He's mean . . . And he'll blast through your screen! [DVD cover]
This isn't the movies anymore.
Young Danny Madigan is a big fan of Jack Slater, a larger-than-life action hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. When his best friend, Nick the projectionist, gives him a magic ticket to the new Jack Slater film, Danny is transported into Slater's world, where the good guys always win. One of Slater's enemies, Benedict the hitman, gets hold of the ticket and ends up in Danny's world, where he realises that if he can kill Schwarzenegger, Slater will be no more. Slater and Danny must travel back and stop him.
| Arnold Schwarzenegger | Jack Slater/Himself |
| Jamie Lee Curtis | |
| Tom Noonan | Ripper/Himself |
| Frank McRae | Lieutenant Dekker |
| Art Carney | Frank |
| Mercedes Ruehl | Irene Madigan |
| Austin O'Brien | Danny Madigan |
| F. Murray Abraham | John Practice |
| Charles Dance | Benedict |
| Robert Prosky | Nick |
| Anthony Quinn | Tony Vivaldi |
| Ian McKellen | Death |
| Professor Toru Tanaka | Tough Asian Man |
| Joan Plowright | Teacher |
| Jason Kelly | Lieutenant Governor |
| Noah Emmerich | Rookie |
| John McTiernan |
5.60 out of 10 (26889 votes)
Visitor Reviews
underrated, hilarious satire
posted on 18 Aug 2009There are underappreciated films, underrated films, unfairly maligned films...and then there's Last Action Hero, perhaps one of the most hated movies of the 1990s. Well, I thought it was hilarious from beginning to end, a great send-up of Arnie's image. The movie takes dead aim at all the action-movie cliches, from a non-stop parade of gorgeous women to every phone number beginning with "555" ("That's why we have area codes," says Arnold's character.) My hunch is that people expected another Terminator or Total Recall, and were completely caught off guard by this offbeat film.
Fun
posted on 09 Aug 2009You know what, I kind of like 'Last Action Hero'. It has so much fun with itself and its star Arnold Schwarzenegger you just have to smile occasionally. It borrows an idea like we have seen in Woody Allen's 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' where fictional movie-characters and real people are suddenly in a world together. Here we have a boy in the real world named Danny (Austin O'Brien) who is suddenly, with the help of a magic ticket, in a film that contains his favorite character, Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger). The boy realizes this pretty soon and he tries to convince Jack that it is only a movie.The movie within a movie, 'Jack Slater IV' deals with villains such as Benedict (Charles Dance) and a mafia-family and from a previous 'Jack Slater'-movie we have The Ripper (Tom Noonan). The story is never that clear, but the film is more about the idea than about the story that carries the idea. There is a lot of fun at times when Danny tries to explain why it is all a movie. All women are beautiful, coincidences happen a lot, when the villain pops his glass eye out we see he has two normal eyes, things like that. A lot of the little things are actually pretty clever, especially the little continuity mistakes. Maybe not all of them are on purpose, a lot definitely are.A lot of the fun also comes from Schwarzenegger himself and the way he mocks his own image. He has proved a couple of times he can handle comedy; here he is at the top of his game. Cameos from actors like Jim Belushi, Chevy Chase, Sharon Stone, Robert Patrick and Jean-Claude van Damme (which makes this the best film he is in) all help on this aspect and a scene with Schwarzenegger's wife Maria Shriver is simply hilarious.The movie is not perfect, certain things like the story could have been a lot better. But that movie already exists with 'The Purple Rose of Cairo'. This one only wants to have fun and it has a lot of it. It makes fun of itself, its star, other movies from the genre and it contains a lot of jokes that require a little movie-knowledge. There is even an encounter with Death from Ingmar Bergman's 'Det Sjunde Inseglet', here played by Ian McKellen. 'Last Action Hero' is underrated, probably because a lot of people do not get the joke or do not care for it. I do both and I like it.
Funny, comedic look at action blockbusters
posted on 19 Jul 2009People didn't get this movie back in the day. Back in 1993, Arnold was fresh off of 'Terminator 2: Judgement Day' and everything else would pale in comparison. But this is a different type of movie altogether.The fact is, this movie is a funny look at the action movie genre, of which Arnold was the king of at the time. The one-liners, which people panned, were meant to be corny. "Big Mistake" is part of the fun. Many action movies had famous one-liners at that time, and this was the hommage to that.The jokes about never running out of bullets, flesh wounds, cleaning tar off quickly, people showing up coincidentially, police coming as a person is shot, are all easily verifiable as action movie staples from the time and earlier.Watch it with this in mind, and you'll see that it's a great movie for what it is intended to be, and that's a comedic look at the action genre. Enjoy it for what it is, not what it isn't.
A Funny, Exciting, Action Packed Film
posted on 28 Jun 2009Okay, I don't know why a lot of people hate this movie, and at first because of what everyone said, I was biased. But, I watch TBS all the time, and this is always on, so I've watched it several times. It is actually a great movie. There is one problem, the main character, some loser kid, NOT Arnold, is the worst part of the movie. He ruins it. He is the biggest loser ever, and all he does is watch movies. The kid gets robbed and mugged, then is worried because he is late for a movie. Besides him, it's a fantastic movie.
The critics are wrong - as usual!
posted on 25 Jun 2009Why this movie took such a thrashing from the critics I will never know. Maybe they just didn't know how to catagorize it. But I loved this movie from beginning to end, and every time I see it on TV now, I'll tell myself I'm just going to watch a few minutes of it, but then always end up watching it all the way through. There is just so much entertainment in this film. Great plot, great action, great adventure, great lines, great parody, great... well, great movie.
I was expecting to see a bomb but was pleasantly surprised.
posted on 22 Jun 2009This movie is a blatant spoof of action movies. If you go to it thinking of it as a comedy rather than a shoot-'em-up thriller you'll be much happier. It was meant to be exaggerated and silly. I'm surprised it bombed. I liked it.
Brilliant skewering of action movie clichés
posted on 26 May 2009John McTiernan skewered the action movie genre with such a sharp knife, nobody felt the initial incision -- which is why this sly pulp masterpiece flopped like a dead pigeon in a radiation cloud. Ironically, McTiernan had contributed boldly to the genre with "Predator" and "Die Hard", so when he knew the genre had hit its zenith, he opted to dish this one up. Few got the joke.As spectacle, the film hits its stride early on and doesn't let up. The centerpiece car chase is a blast, as is the Hamlet segment where Arnie takes the p*** out of his on-screen persona. Some of the parody doesn't work and walks an uncertain line at times, but what does work works brilliantly.These days, the film still feels fresh and perceptive, and its tongue-in-cheek, critical slaying of Hollywood action clichés retains its bite.
The best Schwartzenegger film i've seen!
posted on 08 May 2009Except of course the Terminater film's, this is his best work yet! From the brilliant injokes("i'll be back! HA! you didn't know i was going to say that! you always say that! i do? yeah, it's like your calling card"). the numerous cameo's. This film has it all. how and why this film was/is slated i'll never understand. But one thing for certain, there isn't a funnier action movie around.
Silly and weak...
posted on 08 May 2009Am I the only one around here unimpressed by this film? This is a silly, silly film that I found hard to swallow because it was so self conscious of it being a parody. But at the same time an action film, and yet both really kind of work against each other. This film works neither as action or as comedy, especially since the very premise of this film is just ridiculous. It undermines the film's stance as an action film, and as a parody of the genre.
Totally THE best action spoof movie of all time (and prob one of the best spoof movies ever).
posted on 17 Apr 2009I am totally amazed that most of the so-called "expert" film critics at the time didn't seem to have a clue what this movie was doing. It is positively one of the tightest, most brilliant, sly, wickedly satirical action movie spoofs of all time. I am also rather amazed that Arnie actually agreed to this one; it's almost like he's biting the hand that fed him.The biggest clue of this movie is in the opening shot, when the whole picture wipes into frame in the shape of a "movie" screen (hint, hint!) From then on, anyone with any experience at watching blockbuster action movies at all should have picked up how the scene was taking the standard setup-action pieces of the time, and then pushing them a little bit further than normal; so that they become an obvious (to most people) parody of the situation. The close-up of the feet as Jack exits from the car is just a little closer and off-angle than normal. The ranting chief yelling at the hero that he's gonna get fired if he disobeys orders is just a little bit more heated that the standard action movie would do it. Come ON people, couldn't you get the tongue-in-cheek nature of this?Then we fuzz out and see the "real" story - introducing Danny, our viewer's representative (played by a very adorable and very chatty Austin O'Brien). The one scene I dislike in this movie is the actual "real-life" robbery scene at Danny's home, which comes across as a little too bleak and depressing; even though it does set up the thematic contrasts in the story very well. On the other hand, one of my all-time favorite scenes is when Danny is in school watching the Olivier version of "Hamlet"; and he starts to drift and re-imagines the story in a modern action style. (Gee, if I had a penny for every time I've done that with a pretentious old film - well, anyway...)Of course the two outstanding highlights of this movie are the police station/video store scenes in the Jack Slater movie; and the climactic show-down at the big premiere, especially when the action hero confronts the movie star: "You have caused me a lot of pain. I don't like you very much." (Y'know, I've often felt that is movie characters could come alive, some actors would have great reason to worry. Just a thought.)All I can say is, if you can't get this, you don't really deserve to be watching movies, or even let out to the cinema. It's too complicated for you! Just go back to your padded cell, and vegetate.Best lines: "Mom, you're turning him into a wimp!"; "This has got to work. I'm going to win. Wait a minute; I'm the comic relief. I'm NOT going to win. Ahhhhh!"; "You go through all this pain and suffering, only to find it's all the product of someone's sick imagination, for public entertainment!" [-probably not a precise quote, but you get the gist of it]
under-rated Arnie to the max
posted on 08 Apr 2009Some of the best Arnie one-liners and bad throw-away puns are included intentionally in this HAM CAMP meta-film roller coaster. I mean come on! Arnold Schwarzenegger's Hamlet!?! Brilliant! A film that makes fun of the bottom of barrel Hollywood action scene, using the cheesiest mainstream action star of the earlier 90s (even better lines than Kurt Russell, Sly, Bruce Willis, Segal, and VanDork)There are many sections which are just too much for serious movie fans, and rightly so. This film celebrates Hollywood predictability for those of us who love to say what happens before it does.It's no mystery why this film was a box office flop. The acting blew, and it was full of cheap sight gags. But in the name of fun, this is one of the coolest stories of its day. Too bad it's been basically lost in a swarm of negative criticism from various malcontents. Absolutely worth seeing, unless "you don't get it". For fun, I give this film 8/10 big ripe pieces of cheese.-B
Totally misunderstood and underrated
posted on 18 Mar 2009"Last Action Hero" was one of the most commercially-publicized films of 1993. Millions upon millions were pushed into the extravagant advertising campaign, which included a blimp with Arnold's face being flown over the premiere. (According to the biography "Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger" by Laurence Leamer.) However, it was being released in the throes of Arnie controversy - Sly Stallone, Arnie's enemy, had devoted millions of his own cash to exploiting Arnold as a Nazi in the hopes of ruining his prospering film career. Sly paid off a tabloid reporter (in secret - the truth only emerged years later) to dig up evidence on Arnie's father - and some contribute this smear campaign to the failure of "Last Action Hero." For some reason, it is regarded as one of cinema's biggest failures, when in fact it grossed $50 million past its budget of $85 mil in theaters alone, bringing its worldwide gross to $137,298,489. Not exactly a flop, considering it also brought in quite a bit of cash once it reached the home video market.In Hollywood, someone hears something and it becomes truth. It has become a fact that "Last Action Hero" was one of the biggest flops of all-time, even though it wasn't.And, much like its box office intake, the critical reception of the film was vastly misunderstood. "Last Action Hero" is brilliant satire - spoofing all the clichés and inner-workings of all action films, but most specifically Arnold Schwarzenegger's - beginning with Jack Slater (Arnold) going to his cousin's house: a bomb goes off, kills two nearby cops (one an aging black man days from retirement), but Arnie is left unscathed. Then he devotes his life to tracking down the killer.This film is being watched by a young child in a movie theater. His idol is Jack Slater, and soon he gets a magic movie ticket from an old theater owner and finds himself magically transported into the cinematic world. He becomes Slater's willing sidekick - the catch, however, is that Slater is unaware that he is a fictional character, and doesn't believe the child's "lies" about his origins."Last Action Hero" was directed by John McTiernan ("Predator") and set back his career a few years; he found trouble headlining major productions again (indeed, he also went on to direct the 2002 flop "Rollerball").However, the satire of "Last Action Hero" is sharp and consistent. For anyone who has ever seen an action film, there's plenty to laugh at here - from the movie in-jokes (I love the F-word bit), to the Hollywood/celeb jokes (loads of cameos!), to the satire of violence and its influence on children, and so on and so forth.The only fault of the film is its ending - the last twenty minutes are a bit sloppy. The symbolism is too obvious (Jack is brought into the real world) and doesn't work out so well. It's not horrible, but it doesn't close off the film as well as it should.When "Last Action Hero" flopped in '93, Arnold made a statement claiming his intentions of satirizing violence had backfired and the result made him feel uneasy. He basically said the idea of having a child in the middle of the film's events disturbed him and "didn't work out" the way he had planned.I beg to differ. I think it works brilliantly, and if you're a film buff, you should appreciate this underrated movie all the more. It's one of Arnie's most daring and unique films - how ironic that it was one of his least successful motion pictures. In fact, it's all the more ironic that a movie satirizing the banality of Hollywood fails to make a fuss at the box office.
VERY tongue in cheek action parody
posted on 18 Mar 2009Been a long time since I'd seen this and watched it again last night. There are so many puns, double entendres, refs to other Arnie flicks, and just poking fun at Hollywood in general. Really fun stuff. The exchange between Arnie and his wife (Maria) in the premiere sequence is a riot. Great fun when the actors take us in to the movie with them and demonstrate they get the joke every bit as much as we do. Watch it for entertainment and not to see a hardcore action flick. Good for several laughs...watch for the killer dogs and how well trained they are!
Could have been so much better.
posted on 29 Jan 2009Jack Slater Four, is a typical action movie, am I right. Well a typical action movie is say Predator or Die Hard. But where in these films do you see animated cats, heavily sterotypical characters, glass breaking when someone loudly shouts and outlandish costumes, you don't. So why are they in Jack Slater Four. I mean they could have explained it, the film could have been a spoof, a disney film or had to gain a PG certificate, but they don't. Overall this is a well underrated film and at times it's really funny at times. I hate the bit where the dogs form a pyramid on command. The direction by the formidable McTiernan is absolutely dire from the man who gave us Predator and Die Hard 1 & 2, and so is the cinematography and the script could have been much improved. You get the feeling McTiernan could have been bigger than James Cameron if he could script his own movies, or even seemingly give a damm about them.
underappreciated
posted on 26 Jan 2009In one of the bravest parodies in some time, Shane Black unflinchingly holds an ironic looking glass up to the box office hit machine that made him rich: the action film. It perhaps came a bit early for public consciousness to be ready for it, and so wound up showcasing (in hindsight) more of Black's prescience than his market savvy.In an out and out clever spoof of not only the action film industry but of the slavering fans of action, Schwarzenegger is brilliant casting. The fact that he never quite seems to get the tongue-in-cheek aspect of the whole endeavor makes it all the funnier. (The daydream sequence of Hamlet as an action flick is hysterical!) Director John McTiernan (Die Hard, Hunt For Red October) strikes a nice balance between the tension of the plot and the relaxed atmosphere of the spoof. If you saw it before and just didn't get the thrill ride you were expecting, that's probably because you were the butt of the big inside joke that was this film. Try it again.
It's just not very entertaining
posted on 11 Jan 2009Synopsis: Schwarzenegger, essentially at the top of his game, spooks his own image as an action star. A young boy from a lower class existence spends his days endlessly watching the movies of Arnold Schwarzenegger's franchise action character Jack Slater. But a twist of fate through one mysterious ticket puts the young boy in the film himself. He ends up discovering a world where disbelief is non-existent. As he teams up with a reluctant Slater to shut down a mobster and his hitman.The Review: It just isn't good. Not for all the pedigree in this film. Schwarzenegger headlines a movie with a fairly strong cast from the likes of Anthony Quinn, F. Murray Abraham, and Mercedes Ruehl among the many other actors who appear in the film (including an uncredited Danny DeVito). The film seems to be in love with itself as it just doesn't carry a strong enough story. It's dragging, and you'll feel it as the film bounces from one part to another. It's just not worth seeing. It's only an example of Hollywood emptiness at it's best. It also came out during Jurassic Park's reign.Grade: D
Sorry Ahnold, no cigar...
posted on 02 Jan 2009Interesting misfire, would have worked much better with more interesting villians and a kid who wasn't so pathetic.
Still has some good ideas but the movie doesn't come close to coming together as a unified whole. I give credit for the filmakers trying something different, but here they are obviously trying too hard, and as a result much of the movie seems forced.
Title is lame but movie was good
posted on 21 Dec 2008this movie is actually underrated.Last Action Hero is a 1993 action comedy directed by John McTiernan. The film is a satire of the action. The film tells the story of Danny, a young boy who likes action movies, particularly those featuring action hero Jack Slater. It is established within the film that Slater is portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, who plays himself as well as portraying Slater. Thanks to a "magic ticket",the lines between reality and the movie world blur as Danny is catapulted into Jack Slater IV.The Hamlet scene was strange but still very clever and funny.i love the end scene with the boss when Jack Slater(Arnold Schwarzenegger)hits his boss window glass broke and says his boss says you buy it twice.his boss were before his dictator,but he says go to hell sucker.mostly boss's are like these idiots.
the artificiality of it, and the film's own continued acknowledgment, ALMOST works
posted on 18 Aug 2009Last Action Hero starring Arnold Schwarzenegger is a very odd hybrid that never quite pulls off watching it today. As a kid it was dumb, silly tongue-in-cheek fun, with the soundtrack being one of the best I'd heard at the time. Now as I watch it I find as much to praise as I do to pan on. And it's not necessarily the fault of director John McTiernan or Arnold- the problems lie in two places, the script and in casting Austin O'Brien. By casting a kid alongside Schwarzenegger, even if it is a quasi-send-up of the action film genre (specifically the kinds of films Arnold made worldwide successes in the 80's), there's already the possibility for trouble. Casting a kid in a major role is always chancy, and even when you know the intentions behind it were pure (i.e. Phantom Menace), more than half the time its bound to disappoint. It's a shame then that O'Brien makes this self-conscious attitude of the picture that much more of an annoyance. His continued utterances, reminding us till no end 'it's just a movie' start to wear on a viewer. And by the end, when the story gets overly emotional- and with a very un-needed Ingmar Bergman reference no less- not to sound cynical but I understood why he hasn't had much of a career since.This being said, there are things that make Last Action Hero passable as long as you're prepared to turn off most of the synapses in your skull. The action sequences are achieved with as much of an adherence to conventional techniques while making a wink at it all the time. My favorite was seeing Schwarzenegger's 'new' bad puns (maybe not as good as Terminator or Predator but close) as he drove around without steering and going every which way possible in the first chase. And the star power in the film is impressive, with a nice laugh at seeing F. Murray Abraham in a choice cameo-type role, also Art Carney in his last film. But, as mentioned, all of the stylistic fervor and bits of real entertainment, it lacks a certain durability that other summer blockbusters have. It's not as funny as it means to be, its only half as clever as it is, and its Schwarzenegger-packed action is good only in spurts. In short, it's not too much of a wonder this was 2nd banana to Jurassic Park in 1993.