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Last Action Hero is a 1993 American action-comedy-fantasy film directed and produced by John McTiernan. It is a satire of the action genre and its clichés, containing several parodies of action films in the form of films within the film.
The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Jack Slater, a fictional Los Angeles police detective. Slater is a fictional character even within the film, the hero of the Jack Slater series of action films. Austin O'Brien co-stars as a boy who is magically transported into a parallel universe inhabited by Slater and the other characters in the Slater film series. Schwarzenegger also plays himself as the actor portraying Jack Slater, and Charles Dance plays an assassin who escapes from the Slater world into the real world.
The film was a financial disappointment in its theatrical release, but it has since enjoyed success on VHS and DVD.
The story is an adventure that begins when a boy named Daniel "Danny" Madigan (O'Brien) is magically transported into the surreal world of an action film featuring his fictional hero, Jack Slater (Schwarzenegger). Slater is the hero of the Jack Slater film series, a fearless LAPD detective whose commanding officer Lieutenant Dekker (Frank McRae) frequently yells at him for breaking the rules.
Young Danny Madigan is a big fan of Jack Slater, a larger-than-life action hero played by Arnold Schwarzenegger. When his best friend, Nick the projectionist, gives him a magic ticket to the new Jack Slater film, Danny is transported into Slater's world, where the good guys always win. One of Slater's enemies, Benedict the hitman, gets hold of the ticket and ends up in Danny's world, where he realises that if he can kill Schwarzenegger, Slater will be no more. Slater and Danny must travel back and stop him.
Keywords: 1990s, 555-phone-number, action-hero, actor-meets-character, actor-playing-himself, actor-talks-to-audience, actress-playing-herself, airbag, axe, axe-murderer
[first lines]::Dekker: This is one hell of a way to spend Christmas...
[Jack Slater is Hamlet]::Hamlet: Hey Claudius! You killed my father! Big mistake!::Narrator: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet is taking out the trash.::Old Man: Stay thy hand, fair prince.::Hamlet: [shooting him] Who said I'm fair?::Narrator: No one is going to tell this sweet prince good night.::Hamlet: To be or not to be? Not to be.
Jack Slater: Big mistake!
[Dead assassin tumbles out of closet after Slater has fired into it without warning]::Danny Madigan: How'd you know there was a guy in there?::Jack Slater: There's always a guy in there. It costs me a fortune in closet doors.
Vivaldi: What I'm saying is; Mr. Benedict can take you out as easy as cake.
[Danny Madigan is watching the bad guys on the screen]::Danny Madigan: You are gonna pay... Oooh, you gonna pay!
[Frank's last words]::Frank: I'm out of here...
[ When danny comes home with Jack at 4 a.m]::Danny's mom: Where have you been? The police called. You're not here. You're not there.::Danny Madigan: Mom, I'm sorry, okay. Shh.::Danny's mom: " Okay, shh?" There are 9 million kids out there with guns and that's all you have to say to me? "Okay, shh?" Will you get in here?::Danny Madigan: Mom? You know how you always say you wish I had more friends? Well.::Jack Slater: Hello Mrs. Madigan. Arnold Braunshweiger.
Jack Slater: Who the hell are you?::Danny Madigan: Don't shoot me. I'm Danny Madigan. I'm a kid.
Danny Madigan: OK, I got one. What about this girl right here. She is way too attractive to be working in a video store.::Jack Slater: I agree with you. I think she should be working with us... under cover of course...