Arnold Schwarzenegger might have done some awful things in his personal life recently, but his return to the big screen is anything but terrible.
The Last Stand sees good ol' Ahhnold returning to all his B-movie glory and reminding the audience after a ten-year absence from a big-screen leading role why no one (beside maybe Sylvester Stallone) does over-the top action movies like him.
The Last Stand is big, loud, exciting, and gory as hell. In other words, it's the perfect comeback movie for Schwarzenegger. The action sequences are all gleefully over-the top and brilliantly executed. The incredibly entertaining final standoff which takes up the last half-hour is filled with some of the most painfully hilarious kills in recent film history. I was laughing so hard at a few of them that I missed the next few lines of dialogue. Everyone involved in this film knows exactly how to make a great B-movie. Schwarzenegger is surrounded by an elite supporting cast that knows their roles perfectly. Johnny Knoxville shines as the local gun nut who runs a vintage gun museum in the town. Knoxville brings the same lunacy he has during
Jackass to this film and this is without his best acting role to date. Luis Guizman also get his fair share of laughs as one of the town's other deputies while character actor extraordinaire Peter Bromare and relatively unknown Spanish actor Eduardo Noriega make great wacky villains. Korean director Kim Ji-Woon plays directly into Schwarzenegger's wheelhouse by perfectly establishing a cheesy, fun tone that never wavers at any point during the film.
The Last Stand is a wildly successful comeback party for Arnold Schwarzenegger. This film offers up a ton of over-the top thrills and makes for some of the best B-movie entertainment to come out past few in the years.
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