Last Action Hero stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Jack Slater, a fictional action hero who is idolised by a young boy named Danny Madigan played by Austin O'Brien, but when a magic ticket catapults him into the movie, life gets a whole lot interesting.
I had heard terrible things about this film, and was expecting a bomb, but the combination of director John McTiernan who directed Die Hard and cinematographer Dean Semler who was also the cinematographer on Mad Max 2, both of which I would rank as the finest action movies of all time was too good to resist.
But did such a dream team create a winning result, sadly not, for this reason, and that is the film has no idea what it wants to do with itself, whether it be a silly comedy, a straight up action picture or a satire about Hollywood action movies, it tries to do all three at once when it should have done one or two of those and run with that instead.
If you want this kind of film, go get 2007's Hot Fuzz, it does it FAR FAR better, mainly because Edgar Wright has a firm handle on Action and Comedy, here McTiernan is good at the action but hopeless at comedy, so despite a few good laughs here and there, skip this one, 1 and a half out of 5.
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