I think The Last Action Hero is a massively underrated film. In many respects it’s like ‘Demolition Man’ in that it’s a film that wasn’t appreciated when it was out, but is now getting a reappraisal

I loved how the villain discovered that murder in the real world didn’t result in immediate police response. “I shot him on purpose!” always gives me a chuckle.

A movie ahead of its time. The moment the bad guy starts talking to the camera and the camera crew's reflection can be seen in the mirror....either the greatest stroke of genius or the biggest moment of zen ever caught on film.

This really is one of the best Schwarzenegger movies ever made. It had heart, a really heartfelt message to it and was a lot of fun. It's a play on the genre and knows exactly what it is the whole way through, a really really smart movie.

I think it's genius. It played on all its own tropes and cliches. The moment he's firing his gun in the real world and runs out, realistically, after just the 7 or 8 shots and Tells Danny "Not one word... NOT ONE WORD!...." was hilarious. "My hand, it really hurts..." :D

I saw this in the theatre in '93. Great movie. Very underrated. Action movie star in his prime makes fun of himself. Even the Simpsons made fun of it when Chief Wiggum said, "Magic ticket my ass McBain!"

One of the movies I rewatched so much as a kid. The soundtrack really put me onto some good tunes

Such an underrated film and really was ahead of its time. One of my personal favorites from Arnold and it's a film me and my son bond over.

Such a great movie! I rewatched it recently and it holds up so well. The sarcasm, self-awareness, fourth-wall-breaking and the plot which is both insanely over the top 80's action movie style, and pretty deep with the relationship between Arnold and the kid (bad with character names). It's a weird combo which shouldn't have worked, at all, but did so perfectly. Same goes for The Last Boyscout, which is super underrated but an absolute gem.

Mr. Benedict is one of the most underrated villians of all time

This piece of art captured the 90s era of movie making. It can never be replicated or duplicated. It literally was in a league of its own. Watching this movie in theaters left me in awe as a kid. It really felt like you were part of the movie!

One of the funniest action comedy movies ever made, and also one of the greatest action movies ever made, as well.

One of the best Schwarzenegger movies overall, and definitely the funniest. The puns. The cameos. The off color jokes. The clichés. The whole premise of the movie. I laughed until I could barely breathe the first time I watched it. One of the more underrated movies ever, and I think that's mainly due to the crappy release and lack of exposure, even over time. So many people just never knew about it. When they do watch it for the first time, it's almost always "this is awesome ! How have I never seen this before ?!" Let's not forget the EPIC soundtrack. One of the best ever. Still one of my favorite albums. With so many total garbage movies that have made it big, it makes it that much more of a shame that this movie didn't get its proper due.

One of my top 10 movies of all time. We just weren’t ready to get meta on action movies at the time and poke fun at ourselves for liking them.

The part where Benedict didn't load one of the chambers on the revolver is a legitimate genius piece of cinema.

A true masterpiece, I don't know where to begin with how complex the writing is for this film, imagine an actor seeing the character he plays in the same room with him, but has his own conscience, the idea of this is so beyond what we had seen on film, it's the same person but not the same person at the same time, wow! I've been a movie lover all my life, no movie has been more thought provoking, not even The Matrix, which is the only movie I've watched maybe more times than this, for different reasons of course, Arnold is the only one who could've made it work the way it did, the ultimate "character" that he is. The characters reacting to things not in the script, giving the impression that there's no cameras filming them, that they are real people, with their own conscience, being able to think outside the lines written for them, like they're in another dimension, not on a movie set, when the kid talks about things in the movie, the characters can't understand how he knows this stuff, I could go on and on dissecting each actor/character relationship, but I'll just say again, a true masterpiece, a true work of art.

I watched my parents old VHS cassettes. I LOVE this movie. It's brilliant. Not every beloved movie is reckocknized as a masterpiece at it's time.

This is literally my first ever favorite movie and I was only 3 or 4 when I watched it. I love this movie and it defined me and my childhood soo it means a lot to me. Lol It's my earliest memory's as a kid so I can't help to feel nostalgic about it. 🙂 Sorry I know it's cheesy it was just a huge part of my life! Kick started my love for action movies for sure. 😅

I saw this when I lived in Germany. Fun movie. Everyone loved it. I thought this was going to be another hit for Arnold. Then a few weeks later. I fly back to Oregon to visit family. And I was blown away to find out that Last Action Hero was a boy office bomb in America. And Jurassic Park was the blockbuster smash. Oh well.

I was the same age as the kid in the movie when this came out and this one holds a special place in my heart to this day‼️

I never understood all the hate this movie got when it came out. I remember seeing it in the theater when I was in college, had a great time watching it, and came out thinking it would be a really big hit. I still like it a lot today!

A filmmaker once said it is bad if your film is behind in the times or ahead of it's time because audiences will deride it for being passe or shunning it because it is not being understood. LAH is strangely in the middle, but time has been kind to this actioner and I enjoy it for what it is an absurdly entertaining movie.

In 1993, I saw both Jurassic Park and the Last Action hero in the space of a weekend. The former was a silly kids movie with prehistoric animals and the latter was a misunderstood gem. One of my top three favourite movies with Arnie.

I watched it countless times on VHS and loved it back then. Watching it now it is pretty silly but still enjoyable. Charles Dance is amazing as Benedict, a performance that always stuck with me.

I really loved this movie. I remember how cool it was to see the regular life of an action movie star - like when he got home to his small apartment and killed an assassin in his closet so casually and how lonely and empty his life was away from the insane action scenes.

Definitely underrated, and not at all a bad movie. It's worth watching every couple years or so.

This was my first movie ever seeing in theaters at 5 years old. I already loved action movies. All 3 Rambo films, Rocky terminators predator and this cemented my love for the genre even more. It really hit home with a boy who didn't have any father figure and looked up to action heroes for examples of strong male role models. The character of Danny was living out my fantasy I'm sure many fatherless young boys of teaming up with your favorite action hero💪

You described my situation perfectly. I was about the same age as Danny at the time, and my family even called me Danny back then. I was obsessed with movies like him, and I had fantasized about being able to do the same thing. This movie was one of my favorites and I I think it holds up really well.

i will always stand by my opinion that this film was just too ahead of it's time, and had it come out in todays market, that loves anything meta, it would have been successful. the film is such a blast, and the script is so smartly written. it had a great cast, a great premise, has wonderful pacing and set pieces, and is insanley rewatchable. the movie deserves so much more love. it is truly a wonderful love letter to the magic of movies, and the love of the action adventure genre. im really glad it seems to have gotten a growing cult following in recent years. i mean, its really a movie lovers wet dream. which one of us wouldn't love to get sucked into our favorite movie, and join our favorite hero in a rip roaring adventure. there are so many great easter eggs and nods to movie history, and iconic film moments. god, i just love this film

I've always enjoyed the Last Action Hero since seeing it in theaters and buying the cd. I enjoyed the Meta Humor and sight gags. Alien 3 & this was my intro to Charles Dance.

I watched this movie a lot when I was a kid. Always loved this movie.

I loved this when it came out and would sing its praises to a mostly underwhelmed audience. I still love it today though I find when I speak to people about it its actually fairly fondly remembered by a lot of Arnie fans despite it being a flop back in the day. Edit: I do acknowledge that nostalgia is definitely part of how I feel about this film but it was also one of those cases of me liking it back in the day despite the bad press. In fact Id argue that the bad press is part of why I liked it. My dad used to run a video store back in the day and when this came out we had both read the bad reviews but of course got it for the store anyway (it was Arnie) and when we watched it we were both surprised how good it was. It got such a panning we went in with super low expectations and were pleasantly surprised.

I remember watching this over and over as a kid. The thought that I, as a fan, could actually get into the screen with the characters entraced me. A fantasy. I love this movie, and I always will. Even the flaws make it charming somehow.

I saw this movie in the theaters. I enjoyed the title sequence of the movie in a movie that I added my own version of it to the beginning of our family vacation video titled “Last Action Family Vacation” since I was going to college in a few months. I even used the same music from the movie soundtrack. I used my Mac LC to create slides of “bricks” and the titles that “exploded” by switching to the next slide. I setup the video cam, started the audio tape, and hit play on the app. I was very proud of my work. My brother thought it was funny (we saw the movie together) but my parents were very confused. I still have that tape somewhere…

Carrie Fisher? I had no idea haha! This is genuinely one of my most favourite movies of all time. Just love it. Charles Dance is brilliant as the villain. It's still rather underrated.

For me, it felt like a bit of a good send off for Arnold's golden era with Terminator and Junior. It is highly underrated and ahead of it's time. It's a little existential as well with the implications of the actors more or less being responsible for the pain and suffering the characters would have to go through (besides the writers of course). It felt natural in a way. I would definitely recommend this to someone that h

My 5th favorite Arnold flick. Grew up on his movies and when this came out when I was 9, I thought it was the greatest thing ever. A movie about a kid being magically transported into an Arnie flick and going on adventures with him? Sign me up!!!

There are so many things about this movie that make it dope. How tf did this movie flop, it's got everything an 80's 90's blockbuster film needs, plus so much more. AND Danny's Reeboks were so sick!

Oh, for sure, a secret masterpiece. I have always wanted to see Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Hamlet since watching this movie lol

This movie is definitely one of my favorites! Arnold has always been sort of hero to me. As a kid I always wanted to have an adventure like this. I was born in the 80s so yeah.

I absolutely loved this film when I was a kid. I was 10 when it came out and I have watched this movie dozens of times over the years.

Charles Dance was fantastic in this movie. He reminded me of Gene Hackman's Lex Luthor in a good way. And I still think about "how do you get to Carnegie Hall" as a traitor reveal from time to time. I have no idea why it didn't do better at the box office. It was better than Eraser and on about the same level as Commando. It was better than Cobra (which took itself too seriously). Was it just because it went up against Jurassic Park? I don't know. I didn't see either movie in the theater, but watched them both on cable many times.

I loved this movie as a kid. Was disappointed when I grew up and realized it was a "bad" movie

It's a masterpiece. Saw it in the movies back then and loved it.

This was a kick ass of a movie, brings me back to the good old summer of the 90's vibe. I remember watching it with my girlfriends best Freinds brother. I remember him telling me that it was the last VHS movie you could copy to another VHS.

One of Schwarzenegger’s best along with Jingle All the Way. 90s classics. I watched this on HBO countless times back then. I thought Last Action Hero was made pretty well, super Hollywood action flick. How can you not love the cheesiness? They got Arnold friggin Schwarzenegger, arguably one of the biggest and greatest action move stars of all time. Love this movie🎉

Last action Hero wasn't that bad of a movie in my book. The whole idea of going into a movie or taking things out of one, would be an interesting idea for a TV Series.

I saw this movie in theaters. And I loved it. I considered it to be an interesting sci-fi alternate reality take. And, as we call it today, rather "meta". I could tell what they were trying to do with it, and though there may be misfires, it worked for me. Especially given that there wasn't really anything like it at the time.

This is my favorite Schwarzenegger movie. Adds a "Twilight Zone" feel to it. It is my most watched of his movies - on VHS & DVD.

This has been one of my favorite Arnold films since I saw it in theaters back in 1993. My other favs are True Lies, Predator, Twins, and Total Recall.

I love Last Action Hero, the best! The problem is, some critics want to analise it from a point of view of God Father or something like that.

I watched it as a kid in the early 2000s and I loved it. I watched again yesterday and I loved it even more. I never would have imagined that it flopped in its day.

Always have wanted to see the original and/or Shane Black versions of the Script put to screen. It's far too late now, but some days I wonder what we could have gotten...

Arnold Schwarzenegger said in 1 interview how he felt this film’s failure was the beginning of the end of his film career

I loved Last Action Hero. Even back when I saw it in the movie theater at the time. I could never understand why it was a flop.

I think a lot people misunderstood this film. It's only watching it back now and realising the little details that make it. Excellent film. Thanks for the video!

Personally I liked the movie and Arnold in it, I was used to see him as the Terminator, it was always* refreshing to see him in other roles, End of days 6 years later was special as well imo.

Always regarded this as a masterpiece and one of his best.

I only remember snippets of the movie but I also remember loving it back in the day. 2 decades later I was pretty baffled to read that it was deemed mediocre by critics.

I'm aging myself here but I still remember the summer of 1993 movie season. It's heavily promoted as Sly vs. Arnold, the so-called box office "experts" all predicted that both Cliffhanger and Last Action Hero were going to be huge hits. No one predicted the biggest hits of that summer, Jurassic Park and The Fugitive, were going to be hits. I enjoyed Last Action Hero but it's an uneven and McTiernan was the wrong choice to direct the film.

Watched this a few months ago. Love it every time I see it.

Secret masterpiece! The metaness of it would work well today

Claudius....*lighter flick. You killed my fada. Big mistake. 🤣💀 **That whole segment with Arnold as Hamlet is one of my favorites from any of his movies and as a whole LAH is criminally underrated. 💯

Great movie, got to see there about 3 times in cinemas back in the day. The difference that is portrayed between the real world and the hollywood world is brilliance!

This movie is so underrated.

Masterpiece at its best

One of the most entertaining movies ever, great music, great bad guys, great cameos, it is genius 🔥

This movie is ahead of its time. It's funny, fast paced, has great dialog, great pace & full of action set pieces. And... its original.

The movie wasn’t bad, it was alright. It had a lot of clever ideas and good parts, but there were still things which didn’t make sense like the animated cat, cameos from the T1000, Humphrey Bogart, and Catherine Tramell, and Death from Seventh Seal coming out of the movie

Last Action Hero is an underrated masterpiece

A greatly underappreciated movie. I loved it when it came out. The movie soundtrack helped move the picture. This type of movie spawned a lot of parody movies franchises like "Loaded Weapon", "Austin Powers", "Hot Shots", etc.

I always loved Last Action Hero and True Lies for being able to blend comedy with a grade B action film plot. By not taking itself too seriously, it made the movie fun.

I've been a fan of last action hero since I was a kid in the 90s and I NEVER heard anyone say anything but good things about that great masterpiece

This movie introduced me to Ingmar Bergman, & although I didn't see his films until years later, I definitely knew of him because of this film when I did.

Last action hero was a totally underrated movie. I loved it! Plus it also had one of the best soundtracks to a movie of all time.

One of my favorites movies !!! So underrated ! One of Arny’s best performance !

Great video. I just turned 42 and I saw this movie for the first time a few months back... it was a fun ride However I feel it is a little to long for it's own good. Thanks again for the video.

TLAH is one of my all time greats along with Big Trouble, fantastic underrated movies that are finally getting the recognition they deserve 😁

I'll answer the question for ya. Last Action Hero was a great movie that holds up 29 years later that combines fantasy and action and hollywood fan service references.

one of my favs. so many cameos and references and puns and self-deprecating jokes of the genre, while still not being a total parody like scary movie

Secret masterpiece, for sure. I was 10 when this came out and I was obsessed with it. The soundtrack was amazing too which furthered my interest in metal and hip-hop. I so wanted to jump into an action movie with Arnold.

Last Action Hero is a movie I definitely like. I'm not sure where it is on the rankings, but probably top 20 at least. I would be a bit interested in a more serious take on the idea, namely the traumatic aftereffects of living through an 'action movie' experience. PTSD, long healing process from wounds (with physical therapy and possible acceptance that you'll never be 100% again, physically), etc. Like, a regular world human tossed into various over the top action movie scenes and are being compelled to advance the plot (for example, "If you don't, you'll cease to exist"), but unlike the movie characters actually have to deal with the consequences of surviving it, _if_ they survive it. Meanwhile, the action world people they're 'working with' are confused about this person's odd behaviour _"It's just a flesh wound, why are you screaming in pain?"_ or _"The bad guy is just down the hall that's totally not filled with obvious traps, why are you hesitating?"_

My high school was near Times Square so I was on my way home from school one day when they were shooting the "Jack Slater Premier" scene at the end. The cops asked me to walk an extra block or two to another subway station. I only heard the next day that they were shooting a Schwarzenegger movie and I was only a few feet from the hero of our youth. Anyway, I saw the movie when it owned the next summer and loved it! I couldn't understand why it got such a lukewarm or even negative reaction from audiences. I rented out a number of times on VHS and DVD over the years and always thought it was a great parody of the genre (particularly how action movies were made in the 80s and very early 90s) and it's silly tone helped keep it light until they enter the real world. As a kid, I think I was 15 or 16 when it came out, its willingness to mock kept things joyful until you need them to turn dark when he enters the real world in the final third. It was especially cool for me as a New Yorker because most of those cool action movies were made in LA and Chicago. I think that was the first time Arnold did anything in NYC! I've heard from industry people that it's just so expensive to shoot movies here, and because the land masses are so small and crowded with people, trucks cars and so much construction (hey real estate is big in this town) that it's difficult to make an action movie here. It's why you are so many more dramas, comedies and independent films made here. Smaller productions don't need to stop traffic, hire stunt drivers or clear blocks for explosions. Anyway, years later, as an adult, I'm listening to the Radio vs The Martians Podcast and in their episode on this movie, one of the guys says it perfectly. This movie was meta before there was meta. There was always parody but in the 70s it was the comedy writer and director taking on action movie tropes in movies like Airplane. John McTiernan helped revitalize and redefine the genre with Predator, Due Hard and Hunt for Red October and now he was mocking it! It was just too much for the public to bear in an area where people still took this genre very seriously and sincerely. Most of the movie going audience at the time just wasn't ready for a movie that was a meta commentary on its own genre. They were probably expecting a straight action comedy starring the biggest action star in the world at the time and felt betrayed. I still love this movie and recently when it was on Netflix I watched it with him with my own kids. 14 and 12 and they loved it! When I tried to watch Terminator 2 with them, they weren't scared or anything, but they just thought it was unnecessarily violent and not fun. That's the set of eyes of a new generation on movies that we took very seriously in the 80s and 90s. How could you enjoy movies about rogue, ruthless police commandos robots that are just going around cursing at each other and hurting people? The last Action hero's time... is now!

It's an underappreciated gem for sure. I always loved this film. I never realized it bombed at the box office though. No wonder def leppards "two steps behind" (the movie's main soundtrack song) didn't do well in the charts.

People praise Scream for satirizing the slasher genre but this did the same thing for the action genre imo. I grew up on this film as a kid and never knew it was a flop till I was an adult, i loved it. Its a secret masterpiece to me.

I have been a fan of "Meta Humor" ever since Al Finney as "Tom Jones" turned to the audience for help with an argument. The moment in this when the movie villain kills in real life with no resistance is priceless. Life is hard. Movies are magic. Shane Black ROCKS... 'nuff said

Absolutely love this movie... great soundtrack and a good story, plus Bridget Wilson

man your review makes last action hero sound like it was rally going somewhere special. Having the right director for this movie and not so many peoples pencils on the paper wouldve helped it so much.

The movie was totally ahead of it's time. It was meta before meta was cool and poked fun at the absurdity of what the industry was becoming. And look where we are today - they were right!

This movie has really inspired me to eventually start developing my animated film ideas with its good humor, action, and meta moments.

Awesome Movie directed by the one and only John McTiernan and Charles Dance killed it as the Main-Villain.

I love this flick. Watch it every time its on the telly. It's definitely outgrown the bad press of time & become a bit of a cult classic. Arnie is great & Tywin Lannister is menacing & hilarious... I quite like the original script idea

I still love Mr. Benedict’s line “In this world, the bad guys can win.” Very powerful stuff. His reaction to the mugging on the crowded street “‘Take his shoes’?” and how no one noticed or cared when he shot the mechanic. Really smart stuff that speaks volumes even in a goofy movie like this. I think I actually prefer how ridiculous the action world is because it shows how boring and awful the real world is. I’m also just a sucker for Alice In Chains. Overall, great movie.

My dad took me and my brother for my 12th birthday to see this movie. It was awesome. Even got the movie single Big gun from AC/DC. 90's greatness ❤

I remember watching this as a kid and feeling very underwhelmed. I was a kid though who got very used to the rambos, the terminators, the vandammes, the seagals and wanted the same experience from this movie but it just didn't deliver.

Underrated masterpiece...This movie takes me back to my childhood.... definitely one of my favorite 90s action movies...Tom Noonan's character was fuckin terrifying to an 8 year old. Lol

I liked VHS life where everybody would go to Blockbuster Video and rent movies that were on the shelf. After VHS was over, DVDs took over for VHS on the shelf.

I watched it first time in 1993 when I was 12. Same age of that kid, so for me was a great movie. Of course I watched Last Action Hero just a couple of times at the movie theater but Jurassic Park like 10 times!😅 But for me it's a classic!

The problem that the movie faced was that it opened against major blockbusters. It's a fun movie.

I've of my favorite films while growing up. I was the target demographic, a 90s kid who was a huge fan of action in general and Schwarzenegger in particular. Always had an issue with the second half of the movie, but it's still entertaining and was ahead of its time.