Le dernier rempart

Attempting to revive both parts of the term "Old West," "The Last Stand" stars 65-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger as a small-town Arizona sheriff who, needless to say, don't take no crap from nobody.

He’s back. And his acting isn’t any better. Not that Arnold Schwarzenegger ever took his relationship with Hollywood that seriously: the former Mr Universe, body builder and more recently politician has publically acknowledged that, with his...

There must be something in the water in California. In 1967, actor Ronald Reagan began the first of two terms as Governor. In 2003, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger did the same. But the similarities don’t end there. Both were succeeded in office by Jerry...

"The Last Stand" is the vehicle former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger selected to make his return to starring in action films. If this is an example of his work in the post-governor days, Schwarzenegger should seriously consider a return to...

“The Last Stand” is the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie you didn’t even realize you wanted to see.

The question with "The Last Stand," Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to the big screen (not counting "The Expendables 2") after being the governor of California and at the heart of a messy marital scandal, is this: Does he pick up where he left off as...

Continuing the grand tradition of the Western — and the current p.r. campaign of the NRA — “The Last Stand” celebrates the philosophy that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

After years away from the film industry, '80s and '90s action icon Arnold Schwarzenegger has been easing his back into the genre that made him an A-lister. Growing roles in The Expendables' movies have paved the way to his first headlining vehicle...

A great running gag in Kim Jee-woon's neo-noir A Bittersweet Life is that nobody in the Korean criminal underworld carries a gun. It takes the protagonist, a mafia enforcer on a quest for vengeance, 20 minutes and two protracted negotiations to wrangle...

Korean director Kim Ji-woon is among the most gifted, versatile genre stylists in the world, with a wrestling comedy (The Foul King), an idiosyncratic horror melodrama (A Tale Of Two Sisters), a spaghetti Western/comedy (The Good, The Bad, The Weird)...

The posters and TV commercials for The Last Stand pair a glowering Arnold Schwarzenegger (he's back from politics!) with a goofball Johnny Knoxville. Those ads make the movie look like some sort of warped buddy potboiler, but actually, Knoxville is in...

A Mexican drug kingpin breaks out of American federal custody, steals a thousand-horsepower Corvette (he's also a race-car driver), and makes a run for the border, where sheriff Arnold Schwarzenegger and ragtag deputies await.

The long-awaited return of the former Governator to full on action hero mode may be the only truly noteworthy thing about the otherwise by-the-numbers The Last Stand, but that may just be enough to elevate it above the type of bottom-shelf, straight...

Arnold Schwarzenegger always said he’d be back, and sure enough, here is The Last Stand, the former governor’s return to the big screen.

Arnie’s toe-dip back into the action-cinema pool is a daft bit of fluff rather than a bruising mission statement. Get through the plot and you’ll be rewarded with 30 minutes of whirligig mayhem.

HE said he’ll be back but few people will be cheering for Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Last Stand.

Everyone knows The Last Stand is Arnold Schwarzenegger’s leading man comeback.