Luis Guzmán
Genesis Rodriguez
It’s a wild and violent party in Arnie’s first action flick in years, and Latinos are all over it.
We never thought we’d be saying this again, but…Arnold Schwarzenegger has a new action picture coming out, and it rocks.
Or at the very least it explodes, with multiple car crashes, bomb blasts, and rocket-propelled grenade launches (into the backs of flying suspects, no less)…and that’s just in the trailer.
Rodrigo Santoro
Eduardo Noriega
Yes, it’s true that virtually every Latino in the film plays one of the standard narcotrafficante stereotypes, battling the noble and unstoppable Sheriff Arnie and his goofy sidekick Johnny Knoxville of Jackass fame, and usually we would be raving about how tired we are of seeing these kinds of tired, ugly roles for Latinos. But come on: this is an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. We thought we would never see its like again. And though he’s looking a little tired and long in the tooth, it’s pretty much exactly what you’d expect from him. You can’t take any of it too seriously. It’s not like he was playing the philandering governor of the biggest state in the Union, who…
Oh. Never mind.
Check out veteran character actor Luis Guzmán, as well as hot up-and-comer Genesis Rodriguez, Rodrigo Santoro and Eduardo Noriega as the Drug Kingpin (who else?) in The Last Stand. It opens city-state-nationwide this Friday on a silver screen near you.
