Last Action Hero

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Prosky, Austin O'Brien

Jack Slater is an action-film hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. An old projectionist (Robert Prosky) hands a magic movie ticket to Jack's biggest preteen fan (Austin O'Brien), and the kid steps ri...( read more  read more... )ght inside the latest Jack Slater film, becoming the actor star's sidekick in gunfights and car chases. But when Jack's nemesis (Charles Dance) gets his hands on the ticket, the fight busts out into the real world and Jack (à la Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear) refuses to believe he's a fictional character. Director John McTiernan churns some nifty scenes out of this setup, although the fiction-to-reality shuffle is not as deft as in, say, Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo, and the plot needs the kind of logic and discipline found in that classic when-worlds-collide film Back to the Future. Still, Schwarzenegger has moments of wit and smashing action, and we get a faux-movie trailer advertising an intriguing new shoot-'em-up: "Something's rotten in the State of Denmark--and Hamlet is taking out the trash!"

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PG-13, 131 min.

Directed by: John McTiernan

Released: June 18, 1993

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DVD Released: September 16, 1997

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  • April 4, 2009
    "Did Someone Say Action?"

    A young movie fan gets thrown into the movie world of his favourite action film character.

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    This film has been described as a turkey by many a film critic, but then t... ...( read more )
  • June 28, 2008
    I remember watching this for the first time when I was 10 or 11...and that was the last time, but, I remember being very entertained by it. I need to watch it again some time soon.
  • June 21, 2008
    It has some moments, but it's just a parody of a genre that it's already a parody to begin with.
  • April 20, 2008
    Jack Slater: I'll be back! Ha! You didn't know I was gonna say that, did you?
    Danny Madigan: That's what you always say!
    Jack Slater: I do?

    Here's a movie with a premise that could have been handled much better. It is set up as a satire on big Schwarzenegger action spectacle fi... ...( read more )
  • February 3, 2008
    Pending Review...

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  • June 17, 2009
    One of my favorite action movies. Arnold plays an action hero from a popular movie and by a magic ticket a boy from the real world accidentally gets into the movie world and gets to live through the action together with the action hero. The villain gets hold of the magic ticket a... ...( read more )

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  • kingfirefox
    December 16, 2006
    this is a cult-comedy film? i think this is the arnold's best film:)
    Charles dance is charismatic here as Mr. Benedict

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