THE LAST STAND (2013) MOVIE REVIEW
Seeing as some of the actors from The Expendables 2 seem to making comeback films. With Sylvester Stallone's Bullet to the Head getting good reviews, how does Arnie's film The Last Stand hold up?
With the leader of a drug cartel making a dash towards the Mexican border, the leader of an FBI team (Forest Whitaker) attempts to track his whereabouts. Once finding out that the criminal needs to pass through the little town of Sommerton, the sheriff of the town Ray Owens (Arnold Schwarzenegger) must round up his officers as well as two volunteers, an owner of an antique weapons museum (Johnny Knoxville) and an ex-boyfriend of a police officer, these rookies must work together to bring down a force greater than their own town. The story for the most part, in my opinion, was to boring for me and invested too much time at the beginning, making the movie drag on forever. Besides that, the story is perfectly fine.
In my eyes, I felt that the movie really did not pick up the action towards the end, where the final showdown takes place. For the first quarter of the film, I felt it focused way too much on the FBI and did not invest enough time into the town and especially, the sheriff as well as Johnny Knoxville's character. Speaking of this, Johnny Knoxville's character felt extremely underused and was mainly in the film at the showdown and briefly in the beginning.
As for the acting side of things, the film did it quite better than I expected (for a action movie anyway). Although the actors did not make me care whether a character died or not, two actors managed to stand out. Arnold's character was an all-around bad-ass and was even shown as being a veteran, receiving medals and awards. The main antagonist (played by Eduardo Noriega) played a superb villain and was funny but intimidating as well.
Overall, this film is defiantly not meant to be taken seriously. The film, if anything, is more of a homage to Arnold's earlier action films like Predator and Terminator. If you really want to enjoy this film, do not invest into the story and just enjoy it for what it is. A damn fine action film.
OVERALL: 6.5/10
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