If this was from 2011, that means this movie GAINED .3 rating points on IMDB in 5 years. Gives me faith that it will continue to reach new audiences and that they will see it for the excellent, flawless action movie satire that it was.
shareit's 6.2 now but still underrated, i gave it a 7/10
really enjoyed, it was a funny tongue-in-cheek mindless action movie, i loved all the movie references
so many movies, so little time
6.2 is still underrated. It should be about 7.5. I gave it 9 because it is among my favourites but if I was unprejudiced I would give it 7 or 8.
I am Arnold fan, I like his style - he is strong but polite, enforces justice with a smile and always has a fitting one liner in the bag. All these action hero qualities and other such things are exaggerates in the Jack Slater reality to an extent where action fans are well fed with what they want and even begin to realize how absurd the whole thing is. Absurd but entertaining - this is what the action genre is and many more genres, like the comic movies today, share the same concept.
The real world from LAH is the opposite - boring, grounded, frowning. It is harder to watch and seems prolonged. I personally like it because it gives me more time with the characters which I all like. Especially I like Slater bringing his optimism and hero attitude from his world into the real one.
There is a third reality which is easily omitted. The action Hamlet sequence. It is as hilarious as thought-provoking. "Claudius, you killed my father! Biiig mistake!" :)) Classic drama vs action movies. Both of them are worth watching but each requires a different attitude.
With that being said, maybe the real world is what people don't like in the film. Changing the attitude from enjoying the fairy action world to reliving the real world trivialities isn't what watchers would like to do half way through the movie.
The ranking does not reflect 'liking' or 'not liking' a movie. You can LIKE a turd, but it's still a turd. You can HATE a diamond, but it's still a diamond.
This movie is not bad, because it's 'bad'. It's bad, because it does not reach its full potential, it does not use its permise to the max, it does not even reach very high - it's SUPER comfortable with 'magic premise' and 'star power' (Arnie), and that's about it.
It doesn't NEED to reach very high, because it would be success on star power alone, so MOST of the movie is lackluster to the extreme.
It DOES have its highs and lows, and those highs are definitely tasty indeed. The problem is, the movie is a bit schizophrenic as to what it wants to be, how gritty it wants the 'real world' to be, and so on. It is stretched too thin between 'stupid, wacky comedy' and 'gritty, depressing reality' and doesn't take ANY stance about any of it.
So in the end, it becomes a blurred mess, where it could've been a CLEAR success. It's too 'wishy-washy' for its own good, and then doesn't even reach for the stars. It's like it reaches for the palm trees, gets them, and is happy with that instead of breaking any new ground whatsoever.
It plays it safe to the max. It's boring as a result - there is SO much it could've done, there's SO much it could've DARED, but it didn't. So it remains a very lackluster movie that doesn't try too hard, with predictable stuff where entertainment is supposed to happen, and annoying stuff where the plot is supposed to happen.
The hodgepodge hot mess is just 'slightly below average', not memorable to the least. There was clearly NO VISION behind this thing - just a 'wacky premise' with 'cute kid' and 'starpower', and that's when they called it a day instead of going the extra mile.
Even the LOVERS of this movie would be hard-pressed to try to describe WHERE exactly this movie went the 'extra mile'..(because the truth is, it didn't)