Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on April 2013

After a decade of dithering disastrously in California politics, Arnold Schwarzenegger is indeed back, doing what he does best: acting terribly in mindless, morally dubious, gun-glorifying shoot-‘em-ups. Swa-chan is getting on in years, but apparently that’s okay these days if you throw in a few old-guy jokes (“I’m gedding too auld for dis”). The plot has him as sheriff in a small border town near Mexico, toward which an escaped cartel kingpin is racing in a super-corvette that “can outrun helicopters.” You get the idea. It’s mostly shooting and killing, catchphrases, clichés and corpses.