As a big time Arnold fan, it was great to see him on the screen. As a movie fan, "The Last Stand" is just another predictable action movie with nothing special besides watching Arnold come back. The weak supporting cast, and the very predictable storyline make the film boring at certain occasions but also interesting at certain scenes. The film overall at the end of the day is nothing special, but watching a legend comeback to what he does best with a slight softer side is definitely interesting. If you are an Arnold fan like me I would say is worth checking, if you are not I will recommend skipping this.
It's pretty simple. If you are the right age to love Schwarzenegger and all his past action hero goodness, you'll be anywhere from okay to happy with "The Last Stand". Arnie seems entirely comfortable playing Ray Owens, a former bad-ass LAPD cop now enjoying the role of sheriff of a small US border town.
Arnold is such a likable actor. His interaction with his young and inexperienced crew of deputies is what makes this movie work. Sure, there are some really good action pieces and crazy fun bits from a sharp cast, primarily Peter Stormare, Johnny Knoxville and Forest Whitaker. But the best thing about "The Last Stand" is just being able to see Schwarzenegger be Schwarzenegger again, albeit on a smaller scale this time.
Very enjoyable old school action movie.
Fast paced, with plenty of car chases, shootings, ambushes etc that keep you entertained during the 2 hours of film. Fun stereotyped characters and a perfect and believable role of semi-retired sheriff for the 65 yeard old Arnold Schwarzenegger.
BLURAY Quote:
Gabriel Cortez: "Hell, 12000 Mexicans come across every day, you shoudn't mind if one goes back"
Sheriff Ray Owens: "You make us immigrants look bad"
I never really thought much about Arnie's comeback film. I like Arnold alright, don't get me wrong (I even voted for him), I just never felt this was something I had to see. Then at some point I realized Kim Jee-woon directed it, and I figured I should give it a go. Well, it's no I Saw The Devil, but I had fun.
Very good movie, the action from the final was amazing, Arnold was play very very good on this movie.
I miss these action movies , great .
old style action film, good brainless fun
Entertaining enough!.
Such a weak script... Cliches every second of the movie. Arnold was terrible but he is never been an good actor so...
However we laughed so much at the cliches, the poor script, and action scenes which were ridiculous ... So I give it a 6...
Without these the movie is a 3 or 4...
Americans spending a lot of money on shitty movies like that is unbelievable!
A good film to watch. It has humor. It has action. Most importantly it has Arnold Schwarzenegger. What else do we need? The Last Stand is famously known as one of Arnold Schwarzenegger's action comebacks.
My rating system works:
10:heart:- Masterpiece :100:
9:heart:- Excellent
8:heart: - Amazing :ok_hand:
7:heart:- Great :sun_with_face:
6:heart: - Good :thumbsup:
5:heart: - Average :head_bandage:
4:heart: - Bad but watchable :octagonal_sign:
3:heart: - Bad :sob:
2:heart:- Awful :face_vomiting:
1:heart: - Bull Shit
love it!!!! traditional American :popcorn:
Definitely a "turn your brain off" movie. I want to comment on all the dumb/lazy writing, but it is too entertaining. Very enjoyable, but nothing great.
I'm going to give this a "Great" rating only because it was a completely brainless "disengage and enjoy" action movie. There were more holes in the plot than Swiss cheese, and most of the time it was eye-rolling ridiculous. But if you can just turn your brain off for a couple hours and watch this, it's a great, fun, cheesy action flick. For sure, I was only a few minutes into it when the critic in me started (and kept trying to interrupt the movie) picking this thing apart but I turned off the critic and eventually had a blast watching this. Cheesy? Yes. Unbelievable? Absolutely. Silly? Yes, at times. Predictable? Completely. But worth watching? I would say yes. Don't take it seriously; just enjoy it.
"You make us immigrants look bad."
The Last Stand is Arnie's best film in the latter revived part of his career. It's directed by the great Kim Jee-woon and has a stellar cast. The action is fantastic, the humor is on point and Arnie is a vulnerable badass! A escaped cartel lord is trying to get to Mexico through Sheriff Arnie's town. He had his deputies are the only ones standing between the Cartel lord and his freedom in Mexico. You get great car chases, a prison escape, a great shoot-out in the middle of the town and one in total darkness and a fun final fight.
Everyone looks to have fun in "the Last Stand" and it showed off. Loved seeing the grandma of the town kill that bad guy. Johnny Knoxville brings energy, Forest Whitaker is always fun to see, we even get Harry Dean Stanton and somehow John Abruzzi, I mean Peter Stormare always finds a role.
If you haven't seen this latter movie out of the career of Schwarzenegger I can only say, what are you waiting for!
An OK movie. I enjoyed it but it's full of so-so scenes. Not really well written. Like, what happened to the SWAT team in the middle of the movie! They couldn't get new cars and continue their journey to Sommerton? The script completely forgot about them.
Also, I didn't really enjoy the "humour" in this movie, it was mostly out of place and Johnny Knoxville is not an actor! Evidently!
Quite entertaining modern-day "western" with cars instead of horses. They have guns though...and loads of them.
The Last Stand is by no means high art, but it IS an entertaining action movie that never really lets up when it gets going. Arnold has a few more faces than usual in this one, which is never a bad thing. The comedy does not take anything away from the story, but rather ads to it, and despite some use of excessive violence, the action suits the "style" of the movie.
So yeah...quite good entertainment. Even my better half liked it, and she is rather picky.
Good old predictable action movie. But, hey, no complaints. You get what you pay for and this was quite entertaining.
Great action movie. Good storyline, standard acting and great scenes. There is nothing more to expect from it.
The film was everything I wanted from an Arnold movie, it's fun(!), full of fast paced action and lots of (funny) one liner's. The non-Arnold fan probably won't get much from this, but this movie was made for Arnold fans, and it delivers.
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Cliché movie. Nice. You need to love them.
I've seen better Arnold flicks and always liked the guy. But this one is weak and has no real punch, despite having Peter Stormare, whom I love. And it really cannot decide what it wants to be: an action comedy or a serious crime drama. A nice little evening filler, nothing more.
Haha, what a silly movie. But honestly? I felt pretty entertained. Some really nice and mindless action which made me laugh out loud a few times. As said by others before, nothing you'd watch again but if you like action movies, nothing you would turn off half way through the movie either.
That said, I love Kim Jee-woon's Korean movies and this certainly was not up to his usual high standards, but I guess he made the best out of rather crappy material to begin with and his hand certainly shows. Arnie was fun as the old law man but it gets old rather quickly.
Lets see what Kim Jee-woon and also Arnie deliver next.
Nice movie, even for an oldy like shwarz :)
This is a great movie! I just expected more fight scenes in this movie.
This movie is watchable only because of Schwarzenegger.
you don't want cliches or plot holes, then you have to stay away from action movies. this one is good for what it is, nothing more or less.
I liked it. It is not one of those movies that you would watch again and again. But it was nicely done. Had decent action. Arnold was fine. Overall it was a fun watch.
Corny punch-lines, his world famous accent, over the top action and an one-man army with limited resources against an entire army of bad guys. Yeah, Arnold Schwarzenegger (aka: the Governator) is back!
The movie will no doubt be filled with inaccuracies and story-wise you shouldn't expect too much of it, but who cares? The movie superstar of the 80ties and 90ties is in it, and when his career started to decline in the late 90ties he decided to become the Governor of one of the biggest states (in terms of GDP, population and influence) of the USA!
Only in America can an immigrant go from bodybuilder to actor to Governor to actor again. I really hope some of his world famous lines (like "i'll be back") will be in the movie. And off course a smart mention somewhere in the movie of his 2 terms in office would be very nice.
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Have you ever had those "I just want some mindless fun" moments? Yes?!? Then this movie is what you need. Pure medicine for those booring evenings home alone without your significant other.
Don't expect much storywise though...but this movie has tons of explosions, driving, and gunfights to way up for most of that. What did you expect?? Arnold is in this one yah know ;)