A lot of fans of present day action movies don't like this one. What they don't like is it doesn't have "a good story" like modern action movies have.Good story means portray cops or federal agents or Americans as bad guys.It doesn't portray the cops or federal authorities as the bad guys. It has a lot of mindless, over the top action. That's what an action movie is about.Shootouts, explosions, car chases, beat downs - it has it.There are absurd parts. Minutes after we hear this super car is faster than a helicopter, a helicopter catches it and keeps up with it.Who cares.

Continuing my plan to watch every movie in Arnold Schwarzenegger's filmography in order, I come to his comeback movie The Last Stand.Plot In A Paragraph: With the FBI in pursuit, the escaped leader of a drug cartel speeds to the Mexican border, where the only thing in his path is a sheriff (Arnie) and his inexperienced staff.It's good to have Arnie back in action, there is an undeniable pleasure in watching him kicking ass again. But his acting and delivery has gone backwards and sadly this is more like his last 8 movies, than his glory days of the early 90's. That said, he is the only real reason to see this, he lends nearly all the weight there is to this near weightless plot. The emotional relationships were as artificial as the showdown between the two adversaries on the bridge. During the final confrontation, we are meant to feel that Arnie and his deputies are danger of being killed, but the danger never for one moment exists. Luis Guzman is OK, Johnny Knoxville does what Johnny Knoxville does, whilst Peter Stormare and Rodrigo Sotoro are your rent a villains and Forest Whittaker goes through the motions of performing in a part that has no real identity and he has no lines worth speaking.In his autobiography Total Recall Arnie says how his love child scandal affected his career. "Hollywood pulled back and once again, the phone stopped ringing" The Governator, an animated show and comic book by Stan Lee was shelved, and Cry Macho (a movie he was looking forward to making the entire time he was Governor) was derailed too. The Last Stand completely tanked at the domestic box office grossing only $12 million.It's more watchable than End Of Days, 6th Day and Collateral Damage, but not by much.

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

From one of South Korean cinema's most versatile filmmakers, The Last Stand is director Kim Jee- woon's English-language debut that also marks the return of Arnold Schwarzenegger to the movie industry after a decade of absence and while it's not even close to this director's best works, it still succeeds as a pretty good old-fashioned action comedy.The story of The Last Stand follows Sheriff Owens, a former LAPD officer who now runs the law in a small border town in Arizona. With not much crime happening in the town, it's a post-retirement life for our Sheriff but things are set in motion when a notorious drug cartel escapes from the FBI custody and heads towards the Sheriff's town from where he intends to cross the border.Directed by Kim Jee-woon, The Last Stand is his first stint in Hollywood and while it has its share of positives & negatives, it's not as immersive, compelling & fascinating as his South Korean flicks. The screenplay packs in a narrative that sounds interesting on the surface but is absolutely devoid of any depth, the characters aren't that intriguing either and have only one-note roles to play.Camera-work is aptly carried out, its 107 minutes of runtime is finely paced, and the performances are nothing special. Schwarzenegger easily stands out as Sheriff Owens even if his work isn't that impressive while the input from the rest of the cast is pretty much forgettable. The villain is a total punk who's never intimidating and is outacted by the car he drives. But the shortcomings in acting department doesn't hurt it much.On an overall scale, The Last Stand woks as an enjoyable, entertaining & thrilling B-movie flick but for those who are familiar with Kim Jee-woon's earlier films, it's more or less a disappointment. But Schwarzenegger's fans will be pleased for the actor still possesses his on-screen charisma. While predictable for the most part, The Last Stand makes up for what it lacks with plenty of car chases, shootouts & old-school vibe. Worth a shot.