The Last Action Hero
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http://urllio.com/r2hv7With the help of a magic ticket, a young film fan is transported into the fictional world of his favorite action film character.
Young Danny Madigan is a big fan of Jack Slater, a larger-than-life action hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. When his best friend, Nick the projectionist, gives him a magic ticket to the new Jack Slater film, Danny is transported into Slater's world, where the good guys always win. One of Slater's enemies, Benedict the hitman, gets hold of the ticket and ends up in Danny's world, where he realizes that if he can kill Schwarzenegger, Slater will be no more. Slater and Danny must travel back and stop him.
In one of the bravest parodies in some time, Shane Black unflinchingly holds an ironic looking glass up to the box office hit machine that made him rich: the action film. It perhaps came a bit early for public consciousness to be ready for it, and so wound up showcasing (in hindsight) more of Black's prescience than his market savvy.<br/><br/>In an out and out clever spoof of not only the action film industry but of the slavering fans of action, Schwarzenegger is brilliant casting. The fact that he never quite seems to get the tongue-in-cheek aspect of the whole endeavor makes it all the funnier. (The daydream sequence of Hamlet as an action flick is hysterical!) Director John McTiernan (Die Hard, Hunt For Red October) strikes a nice balance between the tension of the plot and the relaxed atmosphere of the spoof. If you saw it before and just didn't get the thrill ride you were expecting, that's probably because you were the butt of the big inside joke that was this film. Try it again.
Director John McTiernan (director of Die Hard, Die Hard with a Vengeance and Predator) and Action star Arnold Schwarzenegger teams up again, delivering another good action movie, but this time, a little bit different.<br/><br/>Last Action Hero is a satire of the action genre, showing us it's over the top moments and how they DON'T work in real life.<br/><br/>This is one of the best performances of Arnold Schwarzenegger, his character does what we like about him: Saying one liners and working on the action fest ! The action scenes are cool, the unrealism and the over the top moments can be "justified" because of it's satire and it's comedic theme.<br/><br/>The rockish soundtrack is cool, making the action scenes more enjoyable and exciting.<br/><br/>Watch it, you will get a wind of explosive nostalgia that will fill your screen !
Last Action Hero is a spectacularly uneven movie. Its action is hectic, but scattershot and mostly pretty empty. On the other hand, it is entertaining in surprising ways. [18 Jun 1993, p.41]
Teenage boy Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien) attends a private screening of the action film "Jack Slater IV" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, at a cinema managed by Danny's friend Nick (Robert Prosky). But, Danny's ticket magically transports Danny into the movie and meets the film's fictional title character Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger) a larger than life Los Angeles police detective and Danny joins Jack, as Jack sets out to settle a score with Mr. Benedict (Charles Dance), the right hand man of mob boss Tony Vivaldi (Anthony Quinn), whom tortured and killed Jack's cousin Frank (Art Carney). But, Benedict takes possession of Danny's ticket and enters the real world and Danny and Jack leave the film to go after him and Danny and Jack set out to stop Benedict from assassinating Schwarzenegger at the film's premiere in New York City, which Benedict believes, if Schwarzenegger dies, there will be no more Jack Slater films. The word was most likely "fuck".<br/><br/>In movies rated PG-13, films are only allowed to use that particular word or a variant of it once. Twice on rare occasions, depending on context; such as the movie Lakeview Terrace or The Martian. It also could have been "Mother-Fucker" as that variant hasn't been spoken in a PG-13 film. Interestingly enough, this film only says the word once at the very end of the movie when Slater's Captain is once again yelling at Slater.<br/><br/>The word may also have been "cunt" as it has never been used in a PG-13 film either.<br/><br/> a5c7b9f00b