Haggard as Clint Eastwood was in Gran Torino, Schwarzenegger does everything he can to make world weary Ray Owens appear vulnerable. When Cortezs henchman, Burrell (Peter Stormare of Fargo), starts blasting away at them after they discover the make-shift bridge he has erected across a gorge, Owens recruits a former Iraq veteran Frank Martinez (Rodrigo Santoro of 300), locked up in one of his own jail cells, and a nitwit arms dealer, Lewis Dinkum (Johnny Knoxville of Walking Tall) to beef up his force. He has three officers under him who have never seen the kind of violence he has witnessed. Truckloads of armed mercenaries blast through the road blocks and riddle everybody in sight.īannister scrambles every resource that he can to stop Cortez at the border after they lose track of him.Įventually, Bannister warns the sheriff of the tiny town of Sommerton Junction, Ray Owens (Arnold Schwarzenegger), to get out of the Cortezs way.Ī former LAPD narcotics agent who quit the force after he survived a deadly massacre, Owens took a job at top cop in his sleepy little border. Nothing Bannister does to alert the authorities along Cortezs escape route halts the drug lord.Ĭortez careens along the highway like a maniac and threatens to kill Torrance who is riding alongside him. If they served draft beer and pizza at movie theaters, The Last Stand would probably rake in a pile of dough.īannisters heavily armed convoy doesnt even make it out of Las Vegas before Cortezs criminal organization springs him, takes a female FBI agent, Sarah Torrance (Jamie Alexander of Thor), hostage, and furnishes him with a souped-up Corvette that can outrun a helicopter. Johnny Knoxville of Jackass fame co-stars, along with Forrest Whitaker, Harry Dean Stanton, and Jamie Alexander. Meantime, Arnold is back as a small-town sheriff in Korean director Kim Jee-Woons American cinematic debut The Last Stand (12 OUT OF ) where he clashes with coldblooded, trigger-happy villains who are bridging the way for the head honcho of a Mexican drug cartel to cross the border back into Mexico.īasically, The Last Stand qualifies as a predictable but entertaining B-movie toplining Arnold, without Sylvester Stallone lurking in the background. He has lined up several projects, including a new Terminator sequel, a Twins follow-up appropriately entitled Triplets, and a third sequel The Legend of Conan. These titles dont augur well for his comeback, but Arnold isnt going quietly into the night. Arnolds pal Sylvester Stallone, who is enjoying a modest career revival himself, cast the Austrian bodybuilder in his two Expendables movies, and Arnold is scheduled to team up with the Italian stallion again in the forthcoming actioneer The Tomb.
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