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Last Action Hero (1993) -- A young movie fan gets thrown into the movie world of his favourite action film character.
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Zak Penn (story) &
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Release Date:
18 June 1993 (USA) more
Tagline:
Did Someone Say Action? [Theatrical] more
Plot:
A young movie fan gets thrown into the movie world of his favourite action film character. full summary | full synopsis
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14 nominations more
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(32 articles)
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Underrated post-modern take on action movies more (210 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Extremely Violent (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
130 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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2.20 : 1 more
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | SDDS (8 channels) (35 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints)

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The scenes that's playing on the TV monitor in the Blockbuster store, are from the movie Thunderheart (1992). more
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Continuity: When Slater is in the elevator and the helicopter hovers outside, the twin machine guns and mini-gun switch sides on the chopper repeatedly. more
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Dekker: This is one hell of a way to spend Christmas...
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111 out of 125 people found the following comment useful.
Underrated post-modern take on action movies, 29 June 2002
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Author: Sentinel-15 from Antwerp, Belgium

Highly underrated Arnie movie.

Is it a comedy? An action movie? A spoof of the entire action movie genre? Well, it might be all of them, and more.

This movie could be interpreted in several ways. In it, Arnold is spoofing himself (or his on-screen persona, anyway) and the genre of action movies in general.

What's more, it's a story within a story, making an audience member part of the story, giving the whole thing a post-modern twist. The movie is full of genre in-jokes and self-references, making fun of many of the clichés - while at the same time referring to other films, actors, and even other genres, making this sort of a celebration of the entire film business.

On the other hand - in case you don't care about all of this - as an action movie in itself, it's still very entertaining. If you like Schwarzenegger action movies, you'll like this one as well.

Don't let anyone tell you this is a "bad movie". See it for yourself, and make up your own mind.

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