Schwarzenegger is a superb killer as he demonstrates on clone creator Michael Drucker. He uses a chopper to force him of a building, causing him to plunge to a certain death.
Arnie destroys ‘The Man’ who is inhabited by no one less than Satan. Off course Satan is forever, and so this kill is not exactly spectacular. Still, this is Gabriel Byrne we’re talking about. Besides, it took Arnold a lot of damn effort to do it. Nearly two boring hours of effort.
This bastard betrays Conan and deserves to suffer for it. He may be taller than Conan, but the combat is still decided pretty quickly. Satisfying.
Scumbag Coohagen has send his soldiers out to kill Douglas Quaid (Schwarzennegger). Quaid fools them with a hologram at which they starts shooting. Then Quaid comes from behind a pillar and kills a train load of them.
When the indestructible Terminator comes gunning for Sarah Connor, some nightclubbers stand in his way. He mows them down like grass.
Even in a movie like KINDERGARTEN COP, Arnold manages to make a kill. In a struggle with bad guy Cullen Crisp, a small rodent gives him the overhand and he shoots him twice in the chest, killing him.
Bad guy Richter and a couple of his goons follow Douglas Quaid (Arnie) inside a train station. During a spectacular escalator shoot-out, Quaid kills four men total, every one of them gets shot to a bloody pulp, and Quaid uses an unlucky civilian as human shield against literally hundreds of bullets.
Arnie doesn’t like shrinks one bit, especially not a lying piece of shit called Dr. Edgemar. When he finds out he’s fucking with him, he doesn’t hesitate to put one in the shrink’s brains.
Mark Kaminsky (Schwarzenegger) infiltrates the Chicago mob. One of the bad guys is Max Keller (Robert Davi) who Kaminsky blows away at a graveyard along with another goon. A simple but quick and effective kill.
Poor Ginger and Matt. Just for knowing the mother of a future resistance leader they get terminated. Matt takes a royal beating and Ginger gets popped.
In the palace of Thulsa Doom, Conan is attacked by a massive snake. He chops it to pieces real nicely.
Movie hero Jack Slater (Schwarzenegger) shoots his enemy The Ripper. The picture goes out of focus, but we do see Ripper fall of a building. In a flashback from Slater later in the film, we see Ripper pull Slater’s son down with him.
Traitor mutant Benny wants to drill Douglas Quaid (Schwarzennegger) and his girlfriend to death. ‘Screw you!’, is Quaid’s response, as he puts a massive drill in Benny instead.
Henriquez travels along with John Matrix (Schwarzenegger) to see if he lands in Val Verde where he is supposed to kill the president. Arnold snaps Henriquez’s neck and puts him to sleep. The he tells the stewardess: ‘Please don’t disturb my friend. He’s dead tired.’
The protagonist of LAST ACTION HERO, action movie fan Danny finds Hamlet way too indecisive. When forced to watch Laurence Olivier’s HAMLET at school, he envisions Schwarzenegger in the hamlet role who takes care of his enemies swiftly. ‘Hey Claudius, you killed my father. Big mistake.’
This Japanese ice skating killer gets whacked with some simple barbwire. The beauty is that he doesn’t just gets one…but two kiss off lines. The first one is: ‘Here is Subzero. Now plain zero’, followed shortly after by: ‘He was a real pain in the neck.’ Splendid.
Jack Slater (Arnie) is chased by a pick-up truck full of goons. Arnie shoots one of them who flies through the air and lands on an ice-cream truck that subsequently explodes, and then…
…an ice cone finds its way into the head of another goon. ‘I iced that guy, to cone a phrase’, Slater utters like a robot.
Jack Slater plays a game of ‘chicken’ with the other goons. They chicken out and fly through the air screaming and explode soon after.
Douglas Quaid (Schwarzennegger) his colleague Harry and his three muscular friends want to kill him for ‘jabbering about Mars’. Douglas takes care off them instead. Two of the men get their necks broken, the other two get shot to death. What remains is one bloody mess.
This wizard is pretty tough to defeat. He appears as a beast and kicks Conan’s ass for a bit. Then Conan finds out the wizard’s power lies in the mirrors. He starts destroying them to defeat the beast and then the wizard.
Russian drug dealer and crime lord Victor Rostavili (Ed O’Ross) faces off against Arnie at a bus station. Needles to say who gets blown to bits.
The main bad guy from RAW DEAL. Schwarzenegger unloads his machinegun on him when he is running towards his desk. Shot in the back, but hey, Patrovita was a real scumbag who deserved it. As a finishing touch, Arnie empties a bowl of smarties on his corpse. NICE!
Jack Slater takes care of the main villain of LAST ACTION HERO. He shoots him in his fake eye that happens to contain explosives. When Benedict’s head explodes Slater observes : ‘No sequel for you.’
John Kruger sets up these guys nicely. They get stuck in a limo and are subsequently erased by a high speed train.
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