The Last Stand (2013)

Ray Owens used to be part of an elite LAPD anti-narcotics task force but now he is enjoying a quieter life as a small Arizona town on the Mexican border. His peace and quiet is about to be shattered... drug lord Gabriel Cortez is being moved by the FBI but following a dramatic escape he flees south in a stolen 200MPH supercar and an FBI agent hostage. As he heads south his heavily armed associates set about placing a mobile assault bridge over the narrow canyon near Sheriff Owens's town. They kill the landowner causing somebody who misses him to contact Owens. An investigation leads to a confrontation that leaves one deputy dead. As Cortez heads to the border Owen and his surviving deputies get ready for his arrival; before that though they will have to face his henchmen in a showdown on Main Street.This action film is a lot of fun; it starts well with the spectacular escape. It then turns into an effective western as the small town sheriff and his small number of deputies prepare for the arrival of a superior force of bad guys while they know help will not arrive in time. Arnold Schwarzenegger shows that he still has what it takes to play the lead role in an action film. The supporting cast, which includes some familiar faces is also solid enough. South Korean director Kim Jee-Woon, best known for 'Oriental western' 'The Good, The Bad, The Weird' once again combines action, some of which is quite bloody, with an enjoyable degree of humour without tipping it into being a comedy. The action is nicely varied with car chases, smashing through road blocks, fights and shootouts... one of which involves Arnie using a Vickers machinegun! Overall I'd say that this is an enjoyably action film full of western tropes; it might not be a must-see but it is still worth watching if you are a fan of the genre.

This movie is exactly what it should be. A fun and exciting action movie. This particular film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jaimie Alexander, and Johnny Knoxville. The film is set in a small southern Arizona town where nothing ever happens, but when a group of strangers arrives in town, some weird things start to happen. It starts with the murder of a local farmer, which then escalates into a shootout on the outskirts of town which results in the death of a deputy. Turns out, a drug kingpin escaped the feds in Las Vegas, Nevada and is on his way to Mexico, and just so happens he plans on crossing the border in this Arizona town, and it is up to Schwarzenegger's team to stop him. A ton of action and races makes this a very enjoyable film. Arnold and Jaimie were great, and so was the rest of the cast (Forest Whitaker, Peter Stormare, etc.). I would give this film an 8/10.

"The Last Stand" by Jee-woon Kim, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johnny Knoxville and Forest Whittaker (both of the latter get rather little screen time) is a standard action movie which suffers from a weak screenplay, bad dialogues, bad choreographies, a forgettable soundtrack and way too cheesy one liners. There is no suspense but I didn't expect any watching an Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie which was obviously only meant to entertain and give the audience a few chuckles and over the top action. Sadly the movie fails to deliver both of these things. While the action might be over the top it doesn't excite the audience because the filming of these scenes was handled too standard and the fact that we don't really feel that the important characters, who are rather uninteresting anyway, cannot be touched or even really get hurt. So how are these scenes supposed to excite us if there is no real danger? There is a scene near the end of the movie which sums that up perfectly. Arnie gets a knife rammed deep into his leg but still manages to beat the bad guy and then walks like nothing has happened. No limping or anything. The movie feels like a corny eighties action flick, without its charm, mixed with weird and out of place "comedic" south korean cinema moments who fail to make one laugh but weaken an already below mediocre film. The only thing that this movie really got going is that it has got a few names in the cast you might recognize and Arnold Schwarzeneggers charm. This could have been much better, especially with a director like Jee-woon Kim who made some outstanding movies in the past (I Saw the Devil, A Bittersweet Life). I give this a 3/10.

Sad to say but The Last Stand is the first official Arnold comeback movie (considering its appearance in The Expendable franchise cameos) and the last good movie of him.All the 90s action movie vibes are pack in this one! Bad thugs with a very bad villain master, sell out female seductress, below average QI policemen, crazy car and crazy old people.A very good action 90s movie tailored to an aging Arnold.And this was not only the last stand, but the last good Arnold movie...SadSi