Watching this recently for the first time in 2018 makes me think maybe Arnold Schwarzenegger planned for it to be his farewell film. It definitely feels like that, and it could have been really great as a playful, self-aware sendoff. But with films like _Maggie_ and _Terminator 3_, he just kept going, and that’s the reality of things. So instead, I suppose _Last Action Hero_ is mainly an examination of those big a…