The Last Stand

I en orolig värld av diffusa fiender och förvirrade mansroller mår vi nog bara bra av en nypa gammaldags tydlighet i form av en trogen hjälte från förr.

For a lumbering old star like Schwarzenegger, with an image tarnished by his time in public service, it serves as a generous act of career resuscitation.

...an entertaining, old-school, cops-and-drug-barons action movie.

...is a zippier, zestier film than both Terminator 3 and its own hackneyed premise suggests.

...never forces Schwarzenegger to reprise a role for which he's simply no longer suited, instead easing him more comfortably into the kind of role previously reserved for an aging Clint Eastwood or, even better, John Wayne...