Article: Arnie's an all-action failure!; LAST ACTION HERO (Central, 9pm).

THIS was the film that was supposed to cement Arnold Schwarzenegger's place in the Hollywood pantheon - but instead he came a bit of a cropper.

Having already made such blockbusting - and critically appreciated - science fiction thrillers as Total Recall and Terminator 2 at the beginning of the 1990s, he looked set for a hat-trick with this 1993 movie.

Since then, his only really big hit has been True Lies and much will be riding on the success of his next movie, End Of Days, due out here in early December.

With Die Hard director John McTiernan on ...

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