Is Arnold back??   Well, I took in The Last Stand recently; I can say that he is. ISH. Obviously I wasn’t expecting a muscle bound, violent ass kicker of an Arnold. Those days are far behind him. As he approaches senior citizen status, the role he played here, was very interesting. It was as if every character he ever played was a part of this older, wiser and more frail, Arny (Sheriff Ray Owens). He slid into this “aged” role very well. He kicked a lot of ass, (in an old man way) and glimmers of his golden era poked through his rougher, aged and more weathered exterior. This wasn’t the greatest story ever told, but it was a very smooth ride and delivered the "stuff" where it needed to. I enjoyed the movie as a non-thinking, good old action flick. Yeah, there were some dumb parts, but this IS an Arny movie. I wouldn’t expect any less.     Of the returning old action stars hitting the big screen , (aside from Expendables) this has been one of my ...

Iconic action star. Iconic image of said action star in a poster for his latest movie. I have nothing more to say than that. And now for a lengthy plot description: After leaving his LAPD narcotics post following a bungled operation that left him wracked with remorse and regret, Sheriff Ray Owens (Schwarzenegger) moved out of Los Angeles and settled into a life fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction. But that peaceful existence is shattered when Gabriel Cortez (Eduardo Noriega), the most notorious, wanted drug kingpin in the western hemisphere, makes a deadly yet spectacular escape from an FBI prisoner convoy. With the help of a fierce band of lawless mercenaries led by the icy Burrell (Peter Stormare), Cortez begins racing towards the US-Mexico border at 250 mph in a specially-outfitted Corvette ZR1 with a hostage in tow. Cortez’ path: straight through Summerton Junction, where the whole of the U.S. law enforcement, including...

No, it's not a trailer. Dammit. It's a picture of an old looking Arnold Schwarzenegger on the set of his upcoming movie The Last Stand. And that's it. But it's Ah-nuld, dammit! And no matter how old he gets, he will always be THE action hero of my youth. The fact that he's tackling action movies again puts a big old smile on my face. Big!  Directed by I Saw the Devil's Jee-woon Kim, the film sees Schwarzenegger play a former LAPD officer who has retired to a quieter life in a small town called Summerton Junction, near the Mexican border. His big problems start when a drug kingpin (Eduardo Noriega) escapes police custody and makes a run for the border - with only Owens standing in his way. Desperate, he deputizes the locals to fill out his force as the druglord and his lieutenants loom ever closer. I think this has a lot of potential. We'll see Arnold play his age, but still kick ass. It's the first of four Schwarzenegger movies due ou...