Last Action Hero Is an Underappreciated Time Capsule of Meta-Movie-Magic
Last Action Hero is a joyless, soulless machine of a movie. An $80 million-plus mishmash of fantasy, industry in-jokes, self-referential parody, film-buff gags, and too-big action set-pieces." That's what the Hollywood trade Variety wrote in late 1992 just before the Arnold Schwarzenegger-led, John...