Last Action Hero
Following the death of his father, young Danny Madigan takes comfort in watching action movies featuring the indestructible Los Angeles cop Jack Slater. With the help of a magic ticket, the young film fan is transported into the fictional world of his favorite action film character.
17 November 1944, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA
13 December 1930, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1940
15 June 1954, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2 December 1943, Los Angeles, California, USA
28 February 1948, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
May 30, 2013
Driven less by mammoth ego and more by wild, unchecked id, "Last Action Hero" works as a riotous comedy and a rigorous case study of why we go to the movies. It's an inventive valentine made timeless by audacious shamelessness and shameless audacity.
March 09, 2010
Entertaining yet thoroughly uneven...
January 01, 2000
The pulse-pounding, sizzling pull of a Die Hard is absent.
January 11, 2010
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.
October 09, 2014
The divergent puzzle pieces do not often fit together terribly well, in spite of their potential.
January 01, 2000
There is a lot of action in Last Action Hero, but the underlying story never ever quite works.
March 21, 2014
Really would work if it ever really let audiences in what it was trying to accomplish.
January 01, 2000
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.
December 18, 2010
Arnold spoofs action movies, adds more violence.
December 15, 2009
awful
January 01, 2000
Feels like a farewell, of sorts, to Arnold.
January 24, 2010
Considered a dunderheaded big-budget flop in its day, Last Action Hero looks considerably better now in its creative self-parody. [Blu-ray]
