Last Action Hero, the

 


 

A Movie loving boy receives a magic ticket from an old projectionist, who claims the ticket belonged to the great (and very real) magician Houdini. The ticket transports the boy into the new movie starring his favorite action hero, Jack Slater (Schwarzenegger). He finds it very difficult to convince Slater that his life is noting but an illusion, but finally Slater has to recognize the truth, saying bitterly, "I have just found out I am imaginary. How would you like to have been made up? Your job, your marriage, your kids. Let us push his son off the building. You will have eternal nightmares, but you are fictional, so who cares?

I do not find it new and exciting that my whole life is a damn movie…"

Apart from exciting action and a lot of self-irony, this Movie makes some pointed comments about reality and illusion, and the difference (or rather the lack of it) between them, about Cinema as the ultimate escapism, and some of the most common cliches of American action films – mostly the mythological screaming black police captains…