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When "Last Action Hero" hit theaters in 1993, audiences weren't quite ready for it. While a film with the biggest action star of the time and a well-known cast led by accomplished director John McTiernan seemed like a recipe for box office success, "Last Action Hero" wound up being a major disappointment. The movie brought in about $50 million on a budget of $85 million (via In the years since "Last Action Hero," Schwarzenegger's career has followed a trajectory unlike any other. He continued starring in action films for the next decade but put acting on hold when he was elected as the governor of California in the special recall election of Gray Davis in 2003, via the His first major role after leaving office was a reprisal of his part in "The Expendables 2," followed by starring roles in "The Last Stand" and "The Escape Plan." The 2015 zombie drama "Maggie" showed a different side of Schwarzenegger, one that made use of his dramatic and emotional range rather than his well-established action-star persona. Schwarzenegger also returned to the "Terminator" franchise in "Terminator: Genisys" followed by an appearance in the 2019 film "Terminator: Dark Fate." Ian McKellen had a small but memorable role in "Last Action Hero" as the personification of death. McKellen's decades-long career had already established him as a high-caliber thespian well before "Last Action Hero," though the film did arrive before two of the roles he is best known for today. Much of McKellen's early c...

An Action Hero's oil and water combination of genres doesn't always gel, gets overly far-fetched in places but still holds up on the strength of whimsy and surprise, notes Sukanya Verma. While reviewing In Bruges, late film critic Roger Ebert wrote, 'a film that seems to happen as it goes along.' It's what Anirudh Iyer's directorial debut fancies itself to be as the action shifts from a small village in Haryana to south of England. Except in place of gangsters caught in an existential crisis, An Action Hero swings back and forth between a black crime comedy and a spoofy satire on the media's self-appointed moral police as well as the business of manufacturing and marketing news. An Action Hero's oil and water combination of genres doesn't always gel, gets overly far-fetched in places but still holds up on the strength of whimsy and surprise. It has something pertinent to say about celebrity media trials and the ongoing boycott culture afflicting Bollywood even if it's a few drafts underwritten. There are some cheeky ideas in there, some cunning humour too. But it's all too choppily put together to render its circle of crime that jubilant feeling when the moment of vindication finally arrives. Ayushmann Khurrana takes a break from social service duties to slip under the skin of a Bollywood daredevil. Although his Maanav holds his designer sunglasses dear and flaunts his chiseled torso at the drop of hat, he likes to think before he fights. Clearly, the man does his own stun...

Barry Allen uses his super speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without super heroes, forcing him to race for his life in order to save the future. Barry Allen uses his super speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without super heroes, forcing him to race for his life in order to save the future. Barry Allen uses his super speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without super heroes, forcing him to race for his life in order to save the future.

An Action Hero's oil and water combination of genres doesn't always gel, gets overly far-fetched in places but still holds up on the strength of whimsy and surprise, notes Sukanya Verma. While reviewing In Bruges, late film critic Roger Ebert wrote, 'a film that seems to happen as it goes along.' It's what Anirudh Iyer's directorial debut fancies itself to be as the action shifts from a small village in Haryana to south of England. Except in place of gangsters caught in an existential crisis, An Action Hero swings back and forth between a black crime comedy and a spoofy satire on the media's self-appointed moral police as well as the business of manufacturing and marketing news. An Action Hero's oil and water combination of genres doesn't always gel, gets overly far-fetched in places but still holds up on the strength of whimsy and surprise. It has something pertinent to say about celebrity media trials and the ongoing boycott culture afflicting Bollywood even if it's a few drafts underwritten. There are some cheeky ideas in there, some cunning humour too. But it's all too choppily put together to render its circle of crime that jubilant feeling when the moment of vindication finally arrives. Ayushmann Khurrana takes a break from social service duties to slip under the skin of a Bollywood daredevil. Although his Maanav holds his designer sunglasses dear and flaunts his chiseled torso at the drop of hat, he likes to think before he fights. Clearly, the man does his own stun...

Barry Allen uses his super speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without super heroes, forcing him to race for his life in order to save the future. Barry Allen uses his super speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without super heroes, forcing him to race for his life in order to save the future. Barry Allen uses his super speed to change the past, but his attempt to save his family creates a world without super heroes, forcing him to race for his life in order to save the future.

When "Last Action Hero" hit theaters in 1993, audiences weren't quite ready for it. While a film with the biggest action star of the time and a well-known cast led by accomplished director John McTiernan seemed like a recipe for box office success, "Last Action Hero" wound up being a major disappointment. The movie brought in about $50 million on a budget of $85 million (via In the years since "Last Action Hero," Schwarzenegger's career has followed a trajectory unlike any other. He continued starring in action films for the next decade but put acting on hold when he was elected as the governor of California in the special recall election of Gray Davis in 2003, via the His first major role after leaving office was a reprisal of his part in "The Expendables 2," followed by starring roles in "The Last Stand" and "The Escape Plan." The 2015 zombie drama "Maggie" showed a different side of Schwarzenegger, one that made use of his dramatic and emotional range rather than his well-established action-star persona. Schwarzenegger also returned to the "Terminator" franchise in "Terminator: Genisys" followed by an appearance in the 2019 film "Terminator: Dark Fate." Ian McKellen had a small but memorable role in "Last Action Hero" as the personification of death. McKellen's decades-long career had already established him as a high-caliber thespian well before "Last Action Hero," though the film did arrive before two of the roles he is best known for today. Much of McKellen's early c...