Probably the stupidest movie I've seen starring a major film star since Clint Eastwood's "The Gauntlet". And that movie I managed to finish.Schwarzenegger stars as a former LAPD cop who is now the head of a small town's police force, and he overhears a conversation by some truckers which tips him off to the idea that a crime is about to be committed that his town would get involved in. It turns out that a criminal under very heavy guard is about to get busted out of police custody and flee into Mexico, and the escape route would involve passing through this town.First problem is, Schwarzenegger was a suited to play a small town policeman with his Austrian accent the way John Wayne was suited to play Genghis Khan in "The Conqueror" decades before. Also the bust-out happens via a heavy crane having been placed on the roof of a police building...which is TOO contrived. A movie can be dumb fun, but this movie was just too stupid. You'd find more intelligent entertainment in an average Three Stooges movie.

Arnie's not going to win awards for his acting for this, bit will he ever? This a return to what the big guy does best - toughing it out to take down a bad-ass. No over the top CGI or 20 minute unbelievable Jason Bourne choreograph sequences, and all the better for it. The old man comes back from his life of politics to the movies and proves that there's still no- one better at doing a good old fashioned action movie.

The story in The Last Stand is pretty dumb if you ask me. Why would a most wanted escaped drug lord drive through the desert in a fast car to fled to Mexico? The whole police force and FBI are aware of it, know exactly where he is at any point and still don't manage to put up a few road blocks. And than building a bridge over a canyon to fled to Mexico. Really? That's the best idea they could come up with? If I was that drug lord I would just hide for a while and make myself invisible for the rest of the world, the time it all calms down and then just use the hundreds of easy ways to fled the country. The story is just too ridiculous. But if you're okay with that and you just want to see action scenes I guess that's what you get. The cast is what it is. Arnold Schwarzenegger proves again he isn't a great actor. You would think after so many years in the USA that he could manage to loose his ridiculous accent but no. Jimmy Knoxville should just continue Jackass and leave it at that. And Forrest Whitaker, he has had better roles than this one, that's the only thing I have to say about it. The Last Stand is just not good enough and doesn't deserve a higher rating than an average 5.

Either if this film is made solely to make a comeback for Arnold Schwarzenegger or simply to tickle the sense of low brow humor of twelve year old boys and rob them for their allowance, it's not working, and I'm happy to know it didn't make it at the box office. And, what is a brilliant actor like Forest Whitaker doing in this film, trying to soil his career? The only reason for him and several top actors to participate in this non sense, must be to pay Arnold some kind of tribute or/and that they got payed loads. And that's mainly what this is, loads of a lot of nothing, stuffed with old "clichés", actors asked to make bad and boring lines funny, when the only result is an annoying embarrassment. I was about to give it 2, only because the "entré" of Forest Whitaker all of a sudden gave me hope, but even he blew it. If this is supposed to be Arnold's last stand, then let's hope it is.