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    Last Action Hero (1993)

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    An Arnold Schwarzenegger backlash had been on the cards for some time and when this extravaganza was released the knives were well and truly out.

    It was actually all a little unfair because this is a smart, funny blockbuster that gave director John McTiernan the opportunity to send up not only Schwarzenegger’s heroic image but also the action genre itself.

    The story centres around 11-year-old Danny Madigan (Austin O’Brien) who finds himself sucked into the celluloid world of his biggest hero, fictional supercop Jack Slater (Schwarzenegger), as he tracks the bad guys (Charles Dance and Anthony Quinn) in his latest film.

    Things become complicated when the fictional characters take the chance to escape into the real world.

    Schwarzenegger has rarely been better and he is backed up by a never-ending stream of star names in cameo roles, including James Belushi, Sharon Stone, Joan Plowright, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chevy Chase, plus Terminator 2‘s James Cameron, Robert Patrick and Edward Furlong.

    Jack Slater
    Arnold Schwarzenegger
    John Practice
    F Murray Abraham
    Frank
    Art Carney
    Benedict
    Charles Dance
    Dekker
    Frank McRae
    Ripper
    Tom Noonan
    Nick
    Robert Prosky
    Vivaldi
    Anthony Quinn
    Mom
    Mercedes Ruehl
    Danny Madigan
    Austin O’Brien
    Death
    Ian McKellen

    Director
    John McTiernan

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