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Last Action Hero
1993
A Schwarzenegger double-bill.THE 6TH DAY: In the not-too-distant future, when pets can be cloned after they die and "virtual girlfriends" can be installed and programmed, Adam Gibson (Arnold Schwarzenegger) works as a helicopter tour pilot. On his birthday he comes home to discover an identical version of himself--an illegal .. Read more
| Starring | Arnold Schwarzenegger, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Charles Dance |
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| Director | John McTiernan |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
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Last Action Hero
A Schwarzenegger double-bill.
THE 6TH DAY: In the not-too-distant future, when pets can be cloned after they die and "virtual girlfriends" can be installed and programmed, Adam Gibson (Arnold Schwarzenegger) works as a helicopter tour pilot. On his birthday he comes home to discover an identical version of himself--an illegal human clone--celebrating with his family and friends. The next thing he knows, a squad of killers is after him in order to hide the evidence of their cloning activities, funded by Michael Drucker (Tony Goldwyn), a powerful businessman who hopes to make billions from human cloning in collaboration with his medical expert, Dr. Griffin Weir (Robert Duvall). Of course, nobody believes Adam when he says there's an impostor living his life, and soon he has to take matters into his own hands while being chased by bad guys who won't stay dead thanks to the magic of cloning and Syncordings, instant memory downloads. THE 6TH DAY is an intriguing sci-fi thriller, combining science fact and fiction with everything viewers could want from a Schwarzenegger movie: terrific special effects and an action-packed story, with two Arnolds for twice the fun.
LAST ACTION HERO: An alienated young boy magically enters the movie-world of his favourite film hero and brings him back to reality to face a different kind of challenge. The casting is offbeat but this underrated comedy takes some sharp jabs at the overblown reality of action movies.
| Starring | Arnold Schwarzenegger, F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney, Charles Dance, Frank McRae, Tom Noonan, Robert Prosky, Anthony Quinn, Mercedes Ruehl, Jean-Claude Van Damme, James Belushi, Leeza Gibbons, Tina Turner, Austin O'Brien |
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| Director | John McTiernan |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 5 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 11 mins |
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| Genres | Action/Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi/Fantasy |
| Language | English |
| Dubbed | French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Subtitles | Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 08 Mar 2004 Blu-ray: 11 Jan 2010 Production year: 1993 |
| Format | DVD |
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An Arnold Schwarzenegger backlash had been on the cards for some time and when this extravaganza was released the knives were well and truly out. It was actually all a little unfair, because this is a smart, funny blockbuster that gives director John McTiernan the opportunity to send up not only Schwarzenegger's heroic image, but also the action genre itself. The story centres around a youngster (Austin O'Brien) who finds himself sucked into the celluloid world of his biggest hero, Jack Slater (Schwarzenegger), as Slater tracks the bad guys (Charles Dance and Anthony Quinn) in his new film. Things become complicated when the fictional characters take the chance to escape into the real world. Schwarzenegger has rarely been better and he is backed up by a never-ending stream of star names in cameo roles, including James Belushi, Sharon Stone, Joan Plowright, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chevy Chase, plus Terminator 2's James Cameron, Robert Patrick and Edward Furlong. And, although McTiernan has fun spoofing the conventions of the action genre, he still manages to slip in some spectacular set pieces.
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A film that tries to have it both ways, simultaneously mocking and celebrating the conventions of action movies, which leaves audiences, as well as the actors and director, in a state of bewildered confusion.
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7 out of 8 people found this review helpful
(Slightly) hidden gem
This is probably the best Arnie film that hardly anyone has ever seen.
Arnie's best films are where his lack of acting talent is marginalised either by playing a robot (Terminator) or a tight lipped barbarian (Conan). Last Action Hero throws it the other way, and Arnie plays a parody of the cliche 80s action flicks that he made all his money from. He also appears as himself attending a premier and does a reasonably good job of taking the mick out of himself.
Americans generally don't do satire particularly well, but this film is certainly good enough for an enjoyable watch. -
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THE HUBRIS OF ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER
'LAST ACTION HERO' is a film that I've seen parts of on TV before, but I've never watched the whole movie. Now that I have seen the whole movie I can well understand why it flopped on release in 1993. This whole movie is just such an ego trip for Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was Executive Producer on this film. The story is absolutely proposterous and Schwarzenegger quickly allows himself to slip into self parody. Apart from the obscene amount of money spent on this movie, I had to ask myself why such great actors like F. MURRAY ABRAHAM and ANTHONY QUINN committed themselves to be in this movie. It's crap. It still manages to entertain somehow, but that does not make it a good movie. I have never seen such blatant self promotion - a big premiere of the latest Jack Slater movie is just an excuse for the real Schwarzenegger to make a cameo appearance along with some famous faces. LAST ACTION HERO was released in summer 1993, at the height of Schwarzenegger's ego trip, Planet Hollywood had just opened (and yes he even plugs Planet Hollywood in this movie.) Schwarzenegger was justifiably trampeled on by one of Spielberg's dinosaurs with JURASSIC PARK.His heavily accented Austrian-English really grates on you after a while. After the bomb that was LAST ACTION HERO, SCHWARZENEGGER wisely reteamed with director James Cameron for TRUE LIES in 1994. If you want to see a really good satire on Hollywood movies, then watch Robert Altman's THE PLAYER instead.
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- MAXIMILIAN from BURNHAM
- Posted 11 Apr 2008 12:35
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He'll be back
- 15 Dec 2004
Arnold Schwarzenegger's ongoing love affair with the silver-screen looks set to run and run, despite repetitive assurances that the Governator would "not be back". Since he is now officially a politician, one can excuse Arnie for failing to live up to the iron-clad promises in his manifesto, and no surprise then that the world's true Last Action Hero will be starring in a new film, The Kid & I. Tom Arnold, who acted alongside the governor of California's in True Lies, is set to co- Read more
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A Schwarzenegger double-bill.
THE 6TH DAY: In the not-too-distant future, when pets can be cloned after they die and "virtual girlfriends" can be installed and programmed, Adam Gibson (Arnold ... -