Last Action Hero

Last Action Hero (1993)

  • 39% of critics liked it
    (41 reviews)

  • 43% of users liked it
    (176,781 ratings)

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… More

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In Theaters
Jun 18, 1993 Wide
On DVD
Sep 16, 1997
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    There is a lot of action in Last Action Hero, but the underlying story never ever quite works.

  • James Berardinelli, ReelViews

    The pulse-pounding, sizzling pull of a Die Hard is absent.

  • Desson Thomson, Washington Post

    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.

  • Hal Hinson, Washington Post

    Feels like a farewell, of sorts, to Arnold.

  • Nick Rogers, Suite101.com

    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.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Michael E


    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… More

  • AJ V


    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.

  • Conner R


    I really don't understand why this movie gets so much flack, it's really a great idea and fun critique of Hollywood movies. Maybe it was too ahead of its time and maybe it still is, but I enjoyed it a lot. Arnold Schwarzenegger was extremely brave and humble to joke about… More

  • KJ P


    I thought it was extremely funny throughout, but the plot is extremely weak. However, the comedy overcomes the story by a mile.

  • Ginny  


    <center><i>"Dracula huh? I can get King Kong! We'll have a nightmare with Freddy Krueger, have a surprize party for Adolf Hitler, Hannibal Lecter can do the catering, and then we'll have christening for Rosemary's Baby!"</i></center>… More

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