I wish all the AARP Action Stars (Ford, Stallone, Schwarznegger, etc.) would either stop making movies or --OMG--at least make movies in which they acted their age. I'm frankly embarrased for them.

Can't Governor Schwarzenegger retire on the millions he made in his pre-governor movies and leave acting to other actors? He needs to retire.

But does Schwarzenegger say "I'll be back" during the film?

These are the questions that matter.

This is a man of incredible personal energy. Good for him.

@2 Alimony (Boinkamony?) and child support for his baby mama/s are probably putting retirement on hold.

Sounds like a movie made by douchebags for douchebags.

But what more could we expect from Schwarzenegger, a man who not only has been a misogynist his whole life, he's actually been accused of physically molesting a ton of women and he secretly fathered an additional son for more than a decade. The man is a scumbag.

I will never see another movie that has him in it, no matter how good.

With this bucket of crap it sounds like I'm not missing anything.

"End of Watch" wasn't really about bad cops. "Street Kings" and "Dark Blue" are better examples of his other bad cop films. Generally I've really enjoyed his work (kind of an uglier, more compressed James Ellroy for contemporary L.A.), but I just can't deal with Old Man Schwarzenegger and his band of douches on the big screen. But I'll stream it.

@ 1, @ 2 Is someone forcing you to watch? The horror!

Yes Arnold has had some indiscretions but then so did Bill Clinton, I like the fact he was the last elected moderate Republican in the senate, a centrist basically who leaned right. Didn't always agree with him but a shame aren't more Republicans like him.

@1, Ford actually did Academy Award caliber work as Branch Rickey in 42--work in line with his age.

@8 You wrote, "I like the fact he was the last elected moderate Republican in the senate."

Um, who the hell are you talking about?

#1's comment enticed me to look up Harrison Ford's IMDB page because, at least since the execrable fourth Indy Jones, I hadn't heard of him as the lead in an action movie for at least six years. Apparently he's in Expendables 3, which is fucking embarrassing for him, *and* they're making a fifth Indy movie. Fuck me.

I'm also convinced that the Expendables series (ugh) is Stallone & Friends' newest tax shelter since Planet Hollywood.

@4 Where does he get that energy?

@2 I get the feeling he enjoys making movies and being part of the scene. As much as I dislike their politics, both Willis and Schwarzenheger have a self awareness and sense of humor that they still project as actors. We could laugh with Willis when his character even 15 years ago complained on screen, under fire or climbing some impossible object, that he was getting too old for this shit. And that awareness of absurdity is probably what propelled Schwarzenheger into the CA governors mansion.

This probably too much ultra-vi for me, though. I AM getting too old for this shit.

Paul, thank you for this review "on a curve." Anyone who knows anything about Ayer and Arnie's late-stage career knows this would be execrable. But, execrable doesn't mean boring. High-class or thoughtful? No chance. Messy and fatuous? Absolutely. I'm not a fan of "torture porn" or gore for the sake violence in movies, per se. But, I can appreciate a movie that is deranged and burdened with the weight of a megalomaniacal director and washed-up action star. If one likes movies, there's no reason not to experience it. Bad can be good (and vice versa).

The Governator was on a recent episode of the Nerdist podcast. He's surprisingly funny, though of course he's spinning himself and no doubt he's a fulminating Randroid if you scratch that surface. Still, very near the top of the (short) list of tolerable Republicans.

But a movie about the DEA? Yawn/yack.