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Mood:
- HumorousOffbeatExciting
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Plot:
- Good Versus EvilTough HeroesEscapadesHeroesRivalryBuddiesMiraculous EventHopes more...
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Genres:
- ActionAdventureComedyFantasyHollywood Tone
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Time/Period:
- 90s
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Place:
- CaliforniaLos AngelesNew YorkUSA
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Audience:
- Teens
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Style:
- Film in FilmSurreal
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Attitudes:
- Semi SeriousFantasticFast
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Flag:
- Violent Content
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The Last Action Hero, 1993
English
USA
Profile of The Last Action Hero
The mood of The Last Action Hero is humorous, offbeat, and exciting. The plot centers around good versus evil, escapades, and heroes. It is a comedy, action, and adventure movie. Stylistically, The Last Action Hero is a film in a film, has a Hollywood tone, and is surreal. In approach, it is fantastical. The pacing is fast. The Last Action Hero is set in Los Angeles and New York. It happens in the 1990s. It is especially suggested for teens. Note that The Last Action Hero includes violent content.
Summary of The Last Action Hero
Arnold Schwarzenegger and director John McTiernan join forces again in, The Last Action Hero, a heart racing thriller in which a young boy uses a magical ticket to infiltrate his favorite movie. Danny (Austin O'Brien) passes through the movie screen and into the whirlwind life of crusader Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger) becoming his sidekick. But when the villains learn that they too can travel back and forth between cinema and reality, it's up to Jack Slater to put a stop their havoc wreaking.
Once a character in the "Jack Slater 4" film, Danny takes on the role of Slater's sidekick, and together they combat Vivaldi (Anthony Quinn), Benedict (Charles Dance), and The Ripper (Tom Noonan), an infamous troika bent on global malice. Trouble really however, when Benedict gets a hold of Danny's magic ticket, and travels to the real world laying waste to Times Square. Jack Slater leaves his cinematic bubble and follows the villain into reality--a reality where heroes don't always win.
Like a prophet armed with fire, director John McTiernan uses explosive action and booming special effects to foretell of a time when hyper reality will be achieved with the ease of buying a ticket to a movie.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 18 June 1993 |
| Runtime: | 130 min |
Cast and Crew
as Jack Slater / Himself
as Tony Vivaldi
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Critics Reviews
TV Guide
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- by: Staff (Not Credited)
Entertainment Weekly
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- by: Owen Gleiberman
Users Reviews
- 18.March.2009
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- by: Christopher Schneider
- Christopher Schneider rated this movie6/10Okay
