Last Action Hero (1993)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 1993
	Director: John McTiernan (The 13th Warrior, Die Hard)
	Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger (Predator, The Terminator), F. Murray Abraham, Art Carney
	Country: USA
	Genre: Action
	Conditions of visioning: 11.11.2017, VOD, 40" TV screen
Synopsis: With the help of a magic ticket, a young film fan is transported into the fictional world of his favorite action film character Jack Slater (Schwarzenegger).
Review: At first Last Action Hero looks like another Action film with Schwarzenegger during his best period, and this is how I remembered it: the kid loved dumb Action films and ends up in one. But watching it again this time I noticed that the kid knows how dumb the movies are but that doesn't prevent him from liking them. In fact he appreciates those 90's Schwarzenegger movies like I do! Even more importantly, I like the concept of a movie in the movie, it provides a great opportunity for reflecting about movie making, acting and watching, even though it is limited to the field of Action films. It did remind me in different genres of the French Le Magnifique with Jean-Paul Belmondo (adventures shown on screen are exaggerated compared to real life), the creepy Anguish (the screen as catharsis) and Joe Dante's Matinee (kids and movies). Also check out this Wikipedia entry about movies set in a movie theater. And in the movie the real world is ours, Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Jack Slater who jokes about Sylvester Stallone playing in Terminator 2 shortly before crossing the T1000 (Robert Patrick) from that movie. Without forgetting many cameos by Jean-Claude Van Damme, M. C. Hammer, Jim Belushi... And a nice intrusion by Death escaped from the movie The Seventh Seal and played by classic actor Ian McKellen (more known from the series X-men, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit). So even if it is "only" an Action movie and the Action in it is pretty over-the-top, I can only like it because it puts in perspective my favorite Art.
Rating: 6 /10