Review of The Last Stand (2013) by Adam P — 06 Jul 2013

Man, Arnold Schwarzenegger is getting old! And believe it or not it shows! A lot. I don't know why I liked this movie so much, I really don't. This movie warrants a 2 and a half star rating yet I switched it to 3 and a half star review.

I just liked this movie for no reason. It kept my attention span. Arnold, who is now I believe 60, and when he filmed this at 58, seems to be taking serious damage at every step he takes. Sadly, it might be time for this old man to hang in the towel soon.

This film isn't that great, this movie isn't even good, it's bad, and really lame, and laughable but for some reason I liked it. Not because of Arnold, Arnold, hangs on to this film like a dirty towel basically.

Well anyways let's get on with this review, let's start with the negatives. The negatives include the cast, plot, Arnold Schwarzenegger, action, music, character development, the acting, and screen time.

O.K didn't I tell you that there's a lot to hate? Yes, I know this is going to cause a small controversy from my fans. Well anyways most of this cast are just very poorly chosen. While I love Arnold, I really think he should have been recast with someone like maybe Bruce Willis.

Yes, I know I critically bombed Bruce, for Looper, but he wasn't right for that rule, I think he would have been perfect for this one though. And then we have Ms. Genesis Rodriguez, who was poorly cast, as well as comedian, Luis Guzman.

For starters Luis just doesn't look serious enough to be a deputy. Well I can kinda see it but he doesn't seem right. And as for Genesis, how convincing can she seems as a cop? Not too much. This movie's plot is very weak, and a bit loose.

This movie falls threw a couple plot holes. Such as having too villains and neither really having any reason to do anything. I mean the plot is a group of people must defend their small town from a lot of invading bad guys.

Wow, plots now a days are getting really thin. How far this go / a guy can tries to get to Mexico and with the help of a dozen dudes with guns and his 100 mile per hour car a lover hostage he can do it! This is nothing we haven't seen another hundred times before.

Arnold, Arnold, Arnold. Dude I think I have said enough about you, so let's move on. The action is very minimal, for a film that has little else to do then for explosions and action. The plot has nothing to do, it's so bored.

I think they should have added more action, for the actors to do. Everybody just looks lazy in this film. The action is poor even when it happens, it's not well done and the action is 5 minutes in between each other.

The music in this movie is very minimal, and not very well chosen. The music adds little to the action, and makes everything happening less exciting in my opinion. Man, why couldn't they pick up some of the soundtrack to Fast Five, and Rango and mash it up and turn it into "The Last Stand Soundtrack".

Now that would be music to remember. But here we have a bunch of UN admirable music to add. Man one of the worst things with this movie is its character development. I mean I really just don't get any of the characters.

I mean we have Johnny Knoxville as Lewis, and I really don't get who he is. All I know is that he has a museum and has a relic gun which he has named. I mean what? And also we have Frank Martinez, the villain who I really don't understand at all.

Why, the heck is he in prison to begin with? I don't really get it. This film gives little screen time to the people involved including Johnny Knoxville's Lewis who we see only for about 20 minutes altogether, which gives us no time to develop his character as I have already talked about.

Also they should have shortened, Peter Stormare's character, to add more time for the main villain to develop some more. And shorten Forest Whitaker's character so that we can have more time for Sheriff Ray Owens, played by Arnold, to develop.

Now onto the positives with this film including, Rodrigo Santoro, ending, visuals, car stunts, and just that I liked it. Rodrigo, was excellent as this film's villain, even though he was given a very small time on camera he was excellent in all of it.

He really can act like a villain. He scared the heck out of me, he did. He was very devilish. The ending was an epic car race between Arnold and Rodrigo's character; I felt that Rodrigo really had a chance of getting away until Arnold's Sheriff showed up at the bridge.

The race and battle at the bridge were really suspenseful. I thought Arnold was going to kill him and the same for Rodrigo. The visuals were spot on as well. Even though there wasn't much visuals needed, when the car crashed into the polish vehicles it looked really good!!! The car stunts were epic, when Rodrigo's character crashed into the police car and flipped it over that was really cool.

Believe it or not I just liked this movie. I know it doesn't justify why I would rate this 3 and a half stars, what with all the negatives with this movie. I just liked it and that's that. Everything I said is kinda miner for me.

All in All, this is a pretty big disappointment, but I liked it anyways. Arnold is getting way to old and it dragged this movie down a lot maybe he should go back to politics or better yet - retire. D+.