Both the jokes and bloodshed are presented in such an over-the-top manner that the laughs and winces come in the wrong places-you laugh at the bloodshed and wince at the jokes. With this bloody spectacle, however, such integration proves completely miscalculated. With his breakthrough The Good, the Bad, The Weird, director Kim Jee-woon found a successful formula integrating knockabout comedy into blood sport. In this R-rated actioner, the leader of a drug cartel (Eduardo Noriega) busts out of a courthouse and speeds to the Mexican border, where the only thing in his path is a sheriff (Schwarzenegger) and his inexperienced staff (Johnny Knoxville, Luis Guzman, Jaimie Alexander). Hopefully, the title isn't as prophetic as all that.
It's more like a rebound from an unfortunate breakup, with our puffy out-of-breath pensioner hero disappearing for long stretches with the supporting cast doing most of the heavy lifting. Talk of this being his comeback, however, is purely presumptuous. No stranger to dumbed down shoot-em'-ups, the one-time Governor of California has certainly seen more Commandos than Terminators throughout his career. He just needs a better film than this.Ĭrammed full of more Z-Grade slapstick than a Three Stooges marathon featuring Joe Besser, Arnold Schwarzenegger's latest actioner unfortunately laughs all the way to box office bankruptcy.
He is definitely back and still can deliver at his age. Eduardo Noriega's character reminded me of Olivier Martinez's character from S.W.A.T. Johnny Knoxville in my opinion, was copying his character from Walking Tall. I thought Jaimie Alexander was ok, but liked her better in Thor. I felt that Rodrigo Santoro would have done a better job as the villain.īesides Arnold, Forest Whitaker and Luis Guzman do terrific supporting work here. Eduardo Noriega, wasn't good as the villain. Also some of the actors I felt was miscast. The film lacks the twist and turns that it needed. A lot of the characters are not developed well and lack depth. It also reminded me of films like S.W.A.T. It reminded me of movies like High Noon, 3:10 to Yuma, and Copland. I also did like the visual style of the film. It was great seeing Arnold in a leading role.
And while Schwarzenegger has always been a little ridiculous even at his peak, here he fares well, in the closest he has come to a western since.wait, let's just not go there.Īrnold is great in the film, but the film itself is so so. And while the climax is a little too CGI for my liking, the scene when Owens tries to evacuate the diner is a minor classic all by itself. Drones, maybe?) Add in Chekhov's gun theory times a thousand plus Johnny Knoxville and stir well. I would love to know how Cortez gassed up along the way. In the person of Gabriel Cortez(Eduardo Noriega), a deadly drug lord, who has escaped federal custody with FBI Agent Ellen Richards(Genesis Rodriguez) as hostage in a souped up sports car making a run for the border.Īs his Hollywood directorial debut, "The Last Stand," Kim Jee-woon comes through with flying colors, with a movie that while also a lot of fun, is also remarkably thought out.(One thing though. But his training as a former DEA Agent comes in handy some times, especially in thinking there being something suspicious about two passing truckers, and not just because one of them is played by Peter Stormare. While he likes his job, some times it can be a little tedious, like looking after dairy farmers for example. In "The Last Stand," Ray Owens(Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a sheriff of a sleepy border town in Arizona.
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