Death only approaches them because he is curious: Jack Slater is missing from his lists of when people will die, and Danny is slated to die as a grandfather. Death appears before Danny and Slater after they arrive at the theater in a hurry. The ticket stub falls in front of a theater playing The Seventh Seal, where The Figure of Death emerges from the screen. With Slater losing blood, Danny knows the only way to save him is to return him to the fictional world, where it will become a mere flesh wound. Danny subdues and disarms Benedict, allowing Slater to grab his revolver and shoot Benedict in his explosive glass eye, killing him however, the blast causes the stub to be lost. Benedict appears and shoots Slater, critically injuring him. Slater saves Schwarzenegger and kills the Ripper. After learning of this, Danny and Slater race there. To help, Benedict brings the Ripper, the villain of Jack Slater III, to Jack Slater IV's premiere to assassinate Schwarzenegger. Meanwhile, Benedict devises a plan to kill the actor portraying Slater in the movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger, bring other movie villains into the real world and take over. Slater becomes despondent upon learning the truth, as well as his mortality in the real world, but cheers up after spending time with Irene. After Vivaldi's plan fails, Benedict kills him and uses the stub to escape into the real world, pursued by Slater and Danny. Whiskers kills Practice, saving Slater and Danny, who manage to prevent any deaths from the gas release. He and Danny go to stop it, but are waylaid by Practice, who reveals that Danny was right: he is working for Vivaldi. Slater deduces Vivaldi's plan to murder the rival mob by releasing a lethal gas during a funeral atop a skyscraper. He discovers it can transport him out of the film and into the real world. There, Slater, his daughter Whitney, and Danny thwart the attack, though Benedict ends up getting the ticket stub. Vivaldi and Benedict killed Slater's second cousin, but Slater has no evidence and is forced to leave with Danny however, Benedict is curious as to how Danny knew, and he and several hired guns follow Slater and Danny back to Slater's home. Though Slater dismisses all of this as part of Danny's wild imagination, Slater's supervisor, Lieutenant Dekker, assigns Danny as his new partner, and instructs them to investigate criminal activities related to mafia boss Tony Vivaldi.ĭanny guides Slater to Vivaldi's mansion, recognizing its location from the start of the movie. Danny says Slater's friend John Practice should not be trusted as he "killed Mozart" (since he is played by the same actor as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus). After escaping from their pursuers, Slater takes Danny to the LAPD headquarters, where Danny points out evidence of the fictional nature of Slater's world, such as the presence of numerous attractive women and a cartoon cat detective named Whiskers. Nick gives Danny a golden ticket once owned by Harry Houdini, and invites him to watch Jack Slater IV as he checks the print for another theatre before its official release.ĭuring the film, the ticket stub (counterfoil) transports Danny into the fictional world, interrupting Slater during a car chase. Following his father's death, Danny takes comfort in watching action movies, especially a series featuring Los Angeles cop Jack Slater at a condemned movie theater owned by Nick, who also is the projectionist. Ten-year-old boy Danny Madigan lives in a crime-ridden area of New York City with his widowed mother, Irene. Since its release Last Action Hero gained a cult following, with some noting it as underrated in Schwarzenegger's catalog. Last Action Hero failed to meet the studio's expectations at the box office, and was both a critical and commercial disappointment. The film also marked Art Carney and Tina Turner's last feature film before their deaths in 20 respectively. Schwarzenegger also served as the film's executive producer and plays himself as the actor portraying Jack Slater. Benedict, a ruthless assassin from the Slater universe who escapes to the real world. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Jack Slater, a Los Angeles police detective within the Jack Slater action film franchise, while Austin O'Brien co-stars as Danny Madigan, a boy magically transported into the Slater universe, and Charles Dance as Mr. It is a satire of the action genre and associated clichés, containing several parodies of action films in the form of films within the film. Last Action Hero is a 1993 American fantasy action comedy film directed and produced by John McTiernan and co-written by Shane Black and David Arnott.
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