The Last Stand

"I'll give the sheriff a call to tell him to get out of the way." When a psychopathic cartel boss is sprung from custody in Las Vegas and races towards the Mexican border in a souped-up supercar with teams of killers running interference for him, the FBI warn the lawman of the sleepy border town that lies in his path to stand aside. What they don't realise is that this particular sheriff has a past...

This decent comeback vehicle for Arnold Schwarzenegger, fresh from his previous role as the Governator of California, is directed with some nice car-crunching flourishes by South Korean genre maestro Kim Jee-woon, including an exciting cat-and-mouse chase through a field of corn. The focus of the film, however, is always on Arnie, who remains an impressively granitic presence despite his protestations of old age. Although the accent seems to have mellowed, he still lumbers through his dialogue with the panache of a Speak & Spell low on batteries. [Keir Roper-Caldbeck]