2013 Directed by Kim Jee-woon
Ray Owens is sheriff of the quiet US border town of Sommerton Junction after leaving the LAPD following a bungled operation. Following his escape from the FBI, a notorious drug baron, his gang, and a hostage are heading toward Sommerton Junction where the police are preparing to make a last stand to intercept them before they cross the border. Owens is reluctant to become involved but ultimately joins in with the law enforcement efforts
Arnold Schwarzenegger Johnny Knoxville Jaimie Alexander Zach Gilford Kristen Rakes Christiana Leucas Diana R. Lupo John Patrick Amedori Forest Whitaker Peter Stormare Luis Guzmán Génesis Rodríguez Rodrigo Santoro Daniel Henney Eduardo Noriega Harry Dean Stanton Billy Blair Titos Menchaca Arron Shiver Richard Dillard Doug Jackson Mathew Greer Chris Browning James Burnett Rio Alexander David Midthunder Tait Fletcher Mark Sivertsen David Kilde Show All…
Hank Amos Wade Allen Jeff Sanders Diana R. Lupo Angelique Midthunder Antal Kalik Billy D. Lucas Kylie Furneaux Edward A. Duran Darrin Prescott James Logan Robert Nagle Craig Baxley Jr Jeremy Fry Trina Siopy
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More Rio Bravo than High Noon, Kim Jee-woon’s English debut, The Last Stand is full of action, humor and Arnie blasting a shotgun. The best part? How much it improved on my recent rewatch.
As I get older, my appreciation for Arnie grows stronger. Here, he’s a tough-as-leather sheriff in a Mexican standoff with a drug kingpin and his gang of goons. Arnie has a habit of playing a similar version of his T-800 character. In movies such as Eraser, he goes all T2 on a group of sumbitches. Give him witty one-liners, and let him reenact his glory days. While The Last Stand has Arnie uttering a couple of witty lines, he gets the chance to play a character…
I'm more of an old-school Arnie fan his post T2 projects have never really done much for me True Lies and End of Days being the exception. But I thought I would give this a go after seeing some favorable reviews that made me think it was worth giving it a shot. Overall I was pleasantly surprised much more entertaining than a lot of his output over the years with some solid enough action set pieces, violent gunplay, and the obligatory Arnie one-liners. With a cast that includes Forest Whitaker, Luis Guzman, and Peter Stormare. I could have done without Johnny Knoxville as the wildcard though he gets really annoying really fast. A good first English language feature from Kim Jee-Woon. Think Rio Bravo but with Johnny Knoxville lol
Every Monday evening I go to my local movie theater for the Sneak Preview. There we are shown a film that hasn't premièred yet in the Netherlands and we never know in advance which film we will get. This was today's sneak preview. I list them all here.
Well, whoopdidoo, Ahnold is back!
I have to be honest, I was not expecting to have a good time with this film. And the first half hour or so confirmed my worst fears. This was going to be predictable, cheesy and completely devoid of any originality whatsoever.
Allow me to illustrate: In one of the very first scenes we see Ahnold walking through the town he is Sherrif in commenting to someone…
Johnny Knoxxville got a bigger billing than Forrest Whitaker?!?!
The Last Stand's first half is too talkative for an action film. Lost and abysmal, this Arnold Schwarzenegger comeback doesn't look as surefooted as it should be. Heck, Arnie felt more like a supporting cast! The CGI effects is bad as well.
But the second half is immensely good; showcasing Arnie in his heyday finest. The action pieces are fine, and almost the entire cast were given opportunities to shine. The Last Stand is entertaining and wouldn't require too much thought. Fast & Furious fans will appreciate the car scenes here too.
60/100
Pretty much the best case I can make for this is that I never wanted to turn it off. It has a refreshing sense of its own absurdity (established in the pre-credits sequence, in which we learn that the villain's souped-up car is so fast it can be mistaken for a jet), maintaining Kim's penchant for graphic mayhem, but also makes room for moments of gentle humor, as when Sheriff Arnold tries to evacuate the restaurant and is politely ignored by folks who aren't about to be budged from their routine. Sturdy Rio Bravo-style narrative sprawls across so many characters than nobody gets a chance to overstay their welcome (not even Knoxville, admittedly annoying as hell in what seems like the designated Song Kang-ho role), and Schwarzenegger is surprisingly, impressively relaxed given that it's his first starring role in a decade. Gets stupid in the home stretch, but welcome to Hollywood.
If you are of a certain age, like I am, and happened to be a kid and /or a teenager when Arnold Schwarzenegger was at the height of his powers, regularly pumping out high quality action films, then the news that he was coming back to make a proper action film should have excited you a ridiculously exceptional amount.
They do say you should never go back, of course, and in the meantime he did go off and become a somewhat reprehensible politician. Why couldn't it have been Chuck Norris? I always hated Walker: Texas Ranger. He'd also aged somewhat and in his absence the Hollywood action film had become almost dead - and would be completely so if it…
Man, this just isn't very good. Most of you know I have a father's love for Arnold, so it gives me no pleasure to dunk on his movies.
But this just isn't great.
The plot is almost paint-by-numbers. None of the characters are interesting. It seems like a few scripts got pasted together. It's barely competent at the good times.
The action is mostly competent and/or really stupid, like a less self-aware Fast & Furious movie. Unfortunately the exception is the final fight where Arnold... shows his age. Micro-cuts cave cover for the slow punches.
I still love you, Sir. Thanks for all the positivity on Twitter.
About a quarter way in I wondered why is this so much better than I had assumed. Come to find out it was directed by Kim Jee-woon (I Saw the Devil). No wonder the action is so cool. Had I known I would've watched it a lot sooner. Eduardo Noriega makes for a suave arrogant bad guy.
From one of South Korean cinema's most versatile filmmakers, The Last Stand is director Kim Jee-woon's English-language debut that also marks the return of Arnold Schwarzenegger to the movie industry after a decade of absence and while it's not even close to this director's best works, it still succeeds as a pretty good old-fashioned action comedy.
The story of The Last Stand follows Sheriff Owens, a former LAPD officer who now runs the law in a small border town in Arizona. With not much crime happening in the town, it's a post-retirement life for our Sheriff but things are set in motion when a notorious drug cartel escapes from the FBI custody and heads towards the Sheriff's town from where…
How do you go from making I Saw The Devil to making this? While this isn’t horrible, and works as a simple piece of entertainment, there’s not a whole lot of thought to The Last Stand nor is there a whole lot of quality.
A LOT fluffier than I would've liked from a Kim Jee-Woon neo western starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, but it's still a lot of fun. Even though it's clearly Kim having to tone himself down for Hollywood, I can't help but have a big grin at the silliness on display. Everyone's clearly having fun and it doesn't go too long between a gunfight or vehicular carnage, plus because it's a fairly sizeable ensemble cast, we get to see a lot of interesting and enjoyable personalities interacting, and when the bog spectacular orgy of violence climax arrives you want to see them make it to the next day.
This isn't exactly the Old Man Arnold era we'd get from Sabotage onwards, but it's…
