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Wednesday 25 July 2018

Last Action Hero (1993)

A satire of the action genre that starts out with genuine promise but gradually pisses it away, to the point where I found it almost insufferable.
It mocks movie cliches playfully, but is itself reliant on them. The situation was perhaps intended to be further commentary on the same, but it fails to be convincing onscreen and instead of being deeply ironic feels astonishingly stupid. It doesn't help that the script ignores its own rules when in a setting that's supposed to be governed by logic. A final nail in the coffin is that the movie didn't seem to know who its target audience was; it's Rated 15 but more often feels awkwardly assembled to fit the template of one closer to 12. Ultimately, it's a mess of half-baked ideas and poorly-defined intentions.

2 ticket stubs out of 5

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