History YMMV / LastActionHero

* OneSceneWonder: [[spoiler: Death, played by Sir Ian [=McKellen=] near the climax.]]

** Given that he grew up in a section of NY, where that kind of thing happens often, it's possible that he has grown accustomed to the environment he lived in.

** Another major issue is that the Jack Slater series makes no sense as an in-universe action series, with one film having a crushing DownerEnding where Slater's son is killed, and another being just as farcical as the parody itself with the explosive flatulence plot.
*** This is perhaps only equatable to say, the Film/JamesBond movies, where Bond's wife dies shot in the head at the end of ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', and this is given only the occasional nod in the subsequent entries but never even directly ''acknowledged'' in said film's [[Film/DiamondsAreForever immediate follow-up]]. Slater is, after all, stuck with the whim of the writers, and in the 'real world' there could have been a change of writers or a writer's strike and so on, or it could have been like ''Film/BatmanForever'', which was made distinctly lighter due to the slightly poor response to the tone of [[Film/BatmanReturns its predecessor]], which made money but was very, very dark.
** InUniverse, the idea that in ''Jack Slater IV'', Slater is avenging the death of his second cousin Frank comes off as very ridiculous. The idea was that having gone through so many epic, personal conflicts with super-villains during the first three films and having lost his son in the previous movie to the Ripper, Slater was left to battle some organized crime factions due to the death of a very minor character. This would also allow Danny, once he comes into the movie world, to start listing the flaws of the Jack Slater films, as well as how they were running out of good ideas.

** The brief appearance by a "black and white digitization of Humphrey Bogart" as one of the assigned police partners is sending up the uproar created the previous year when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnmkfP47-gI an ad for Diet Coke]] used CGI to turn Bogart, James Cagney, and Louis Armstrong into posthumous pitchmen for a modern soft drink.

** There's also Michael Kamen's score with the assistance of none other than Music/{{Buckethead}}.

** Thanks to "deepfake" editing technology, a man with the handle of [[https://movieweb.com/amp/t2-judgment-day-deepfake-video-sylvester-stallone/&ved=2ahUKEwio2o3rot_iAhXStlkKHZx2BWkQiJQBMAF6BAgKEAg&usg=AOvVaw1ycqpKPnTVAuEgIUlicvuD&ampcf=1 Ctrl_Alt_Face edited Sylvester Stallone as the T-800 in a few scenes]] of ''Terminator 2''. The montage even starts with the scene where Danny discovers the Stallone poster inside the "Jack Slater" universe.

** Thanks to "deepfake" editing technology, someone edited Sylvester Stallone as the T-800 in a few scenes of ''Terminator 2''

*** Here, among the villains Benedict threatens to release is Franchise/KingKong. Come, ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' and Kong is the only Film/MonsterVerse kaiju ''not'' on the loose because of Charles Dance's character.

** The movie's entire soundtrack qualifies, but standout examples would be "What the Hell Have I" and "A Little Bitter" by Music/AliceInChains, "Big Gun" by Music/{{ACDC}}, "Angry Again" by Music/{{Megadeth}}, and "Poison in My Eyes" by Music/{{Anthrax}}. The soundtrack to this film has actually become something of a collector's item for fans of hard rock and heavy metal.

** The movie's entire soundtrack qualifies, but standout examples would be [[Music/AliceInChains What the Hell Have I, A Little Bitter]], [[Music/{{ACDC}} Big Gun]], [[Music/{{Megadeth}} Angry Again]], and [[Music/{{Anthrax}} Poison in my Eyes]]. The soundtrack to this film has actually become something of a collector's item for fans of hard rock and heavy metal.

* RetroactiveRecognition: At the time ''Last Action Hero'' was made, Charles Dance (Mr. Benedict) was most well known for serious drama films, and he had an extremely limited presence in genre films (in fact the novelization of the film, based on an earlier script, seems to indicate they were planning to cast William Atherton from ''Die Hard'' and ''Ghostbusters'' instead). Nowadays, after the runaway success of ''Game of Thrones'' and Dance's memorable role as Tywin Lannister, he's a lot more recognizable to a mainstream audience viewing this film.

* MagnificentBastard: Benedict quickly notices that the Real World is rather short on [[CardCarryingVillain card-carrying action movie villains]] such as himself -- and forces to oppose him properly. In his own RealityEnsues scene, he kills a man at night in the middle of a run-down neighborhood and is surprised that neither Slater nor police show up to prevent it, nor do bystanders even care -- thus proving to him that he can do a ''lot'' more damage and gather a ''lot'' more wealth and power than he did in the movies.
--->'''Benedict:''' If God were a villain, he'd be me!

*** This is perhaps only equatable to say, the [[Film/JamesBond Bond movies]], where Bond's wife dies shot in the head at the end of ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', and this is given only the occasional nod in the subsequent entries but never even directly ''acknowledged'' in said film's [[Film/DiamondsAreForever immediate follow-up]]. Slater is, after all, stuck with the whim of the writers, and in the 'real world' there could have been a change of writers or a writer's strike and so on, or it could have been like ''Film/BatmanForever'', which was made distinctly lighter due to the slightly poor response to the tone of [[Film/BatmanReturns its predecessor]], which made money but was very, very dark.

* FridgeHorror: While action movie characters coming into the real world and deconstructing the fact the normal narrative cliches don't apply...[[spoiler:Death]], a supernatural entity, keeps his powers in the real world. This implies that the ''abilities'' of a fictional character aren't changed, merely how they effect the world around them and vice versa. Had Benedict succeeded in his goals, all the monsters he thought to bring to the real world would've ''kept their powers''...but no longer be confined to the rule of 'the FinalGirl wins' or have their victims protected by PlotArmor and in a world that would have no idea how to counter their abilities.

** Slater punches a car window in the real world, then complains how much it hurts. In ''Film/TrueLies'', Arnold accidentally punched a real car window instead of one made of break-away glass, and didn't notice.

** Benedict has a dummy in the shape of a stag in his room. Charles Dance will play Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones, where he will fight against characters who use stag as coat of arms.

** The movie's entire soundtrack qualifies, but standout examples would be [[Music/AliceInChains What the Hell Have I, A Little Bitter]], [[Music/{{ACDC}} Big Gun]], and [[Music/{{Anthrax}} Poison in my Eyes]]. The soundtrack to this film has actually become something of a collector's item for fans of hard rock and heavy metal.

** Benedict has a dummy in the shape of a stag in his room. Charles Dance will play Tywin Lannister in ''Series/GameofThrones'', where he will fight against characters who use stags as their coat of arms.

** Benedict has a dummy in the shape of a stag in his room. Charles Dance will play Tywin Lannister in ''Series/Game of Thrones'', where he will fight against characters who use stags as their coat of arms.

** Benedict has a dummy in the shape of a stag in his room. Charles Dance will play Tywin Lannister in ''Series/GameofThrones'', where he will fight against characters who use stags as their coat of arms.

** Benedict has a dummy in the shape of a stag in his room. Charles Dance will play Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones, where he will fight against characters who use stags as their coat of arms.

* AngstWhatAngst: Danny is robbed in his apartment at knife-point early in the film. His trauma seems limited to merely that scene and when he's at the police station; the second Danny leaves the station, he goes on like nothing happened.