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Last Action Hero

1993

John McTiernan

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austin O'Brien, Charles Dance, Anthony Quinn ...

5.4

57,026

Action. Fantasy. Comedy Young Danny spends all his time watching action movies in a rundown theatre. His aging projectionist friend Nick invites Danny to a special preview screening of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s new action movie ‘Jack Slater IV’ and gives him a special ticket that he claims has magical powers. During the screening, the ticket suddenly comes to life and propels Danny through the screen and into the movie. There Danny finds himself in the unreal ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Vincent Canby The New York Times	"'Last Action Hero' is something of a mess, but a frequently enjoyable one. It tries to be too many things to too many different kinds of audiences"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"There is a lot of action in 'Last Action Hero,' but the underlying story never ever quite works. From beginning to end, the movie is about its gimmick, without ever transcending it (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"A joyless, soulless machine of a movie (...) One of the screenplay’s more creative aspects is having found several different ways to write the picture’s epitaph"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tom Hibbert Empire	"This is an attempt to be both a high-octane actionfest and a satire on such films, the result of which is the weirdest concoction: the metaphysical blockbuster. No wonder it tanked (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Ignatiy Vishnevetsky AV Club	"As fiction, it’s messy and nonsensical. As filmmaking, it’s pure."	NEU
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"An awkward mixture of overproduced action and underwhelming comedy (...) 'Last Action Hero' does not manage to live up to its potential"	NEG
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"The performances of both Schwarzenegger and O'Brien are labored, the pacing uneven, and maybe only half the gags work, but there's a certain amount of creative energy and audacity mixed in with all the confusion"	NEU
United States	Cindy White IGN	"Manage your expectations appropriately and you won't be disappointed."	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"A perverse spectacle: a stupid, generic slab of action bombast that keeps reminding us it’s a stupid, generic slab of action bombast"	NEG

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