Last Action Hero

Last Action Hero (1993)

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Other mistake: Before Jack's car jumps over the bridge, a van skids on the road. The first angle shows a thug firing at Jack, and the second angle shows Jack swerving to the left to dodge the bullets. The editing is all wrong here: The thug fires at the opposite lane to where Jack is, so he is really driving to where the bullets are.

Sacha

Revealing mistake: When Arnie flips his car sideways to avoid the Texaco truck, the stunt driver is very obviously not Arnie.

Sacha

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Suggested correction: That's one of the gags of the film, how action films have obvious stunt doubles, not to mention ridiculous stunts like how he got the car on 2 wheels in the first place.

Bishop73

That is not part of the fake-movie plot.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: During the car chase when Danny is in movie-world, Jack is firing the thugs and his hair moves a lot during the wide angle, but barely at all a frame later in the close-up.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Benedict is getting away from Jack's daughter's house he gets into a white car, but when Jack shoots him the car is black.

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Suggested correction: It's the same car the whole time. The car he gets into is black, but the way the camera picks up the light that hits part of the door does fade out of the color some, but you can see the rest is black.

Bishop73

Continuity mistake: When Jack is being chased and the guys in the red pick up truck are throwing dynamite at him, they throw one that hits a parked car just as Jack makes a hard left turn. The next shot has the car exploding and Jack having made a hard right turn.

The_Iceman

Revealing mistake: After Slater jumps out of the house and it explodes, when the cop car flips over, the air ram used to flip it over is visible.

Continuity mistake: When Jack s shooting at the chopper from inside the elevator, its door has bits of remaining glass around the sides, which disappear from the chopper's POV. This changes back and forth.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When a prostitute walks to Benedict and opens her coat, when the angle changes her right arm and hand are in a different position, plus a guy is suddenly right behind her.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Arnie's car is parked with the thugs in front, and he is pressing the gas pedal while Danny sits behind encouraging him, there's a wide angle of the car and Danny is completely gone, only to reappear in the next shot.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Jack and Danny enter the video store a sign on the door reads Acme Video, yet inside there's a huge "Blockbuster Video" sign.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Arnie drives towards the red truck, their distance to the boxes increases/decreases randomly with no logic whatsoever.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: Jack is inside the elevator after the chopper has killed the mobsters. He's got glass all over him, but when the angle changes to a wide shot the bits of glass are gone.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Arnie drives fast towards the thugs' red truck, the alley swaps from being sunny to being in shadows, back and forth.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: Arnie heads for the funeral, crosses the road, the pond, and drives up a hill and stops. When the angle changes, two columns have suddenly appeared behind the car.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: After Arnie electrocutes the baddie, Benedict aims a knife at him, and Danny pulls him away. Benedict's stunt double is noticeable because he is plumper, and his hairstyle differs.

Sacha

Jack Slater: Did you make a movie mistake? You forgot to reload the damn gun.
Benedict: No, Jack. I just left one chamber empty.

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Trivia: When Jack and Danny go inside the police station the first time, Danny notices Robert Patrick coming out of the station. This is a nod to Terminator 2: Judgement Day.

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Question: All of the actors in this film are actually credited as either themselves, or their character in the Jack Slater films (eg. the reporters recognise Tom Noonan as himself at the film premiere). However, the actress playing Whitney is actually called Bridgette Wilson, not Meredeth as Danny points out. Why was this?

Answer: Most likely, she was not a well-known enough actress to have name recognition like Arnold.

Brian Katcher

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