Everybody loves Arnold—even if you don’t like the man, you love the movies in which he partakes. “The Last Stand” is the much-wanted return of Mr. Schwarzenegger to a leading role, front-and-center, and no one could be happier than yours truly and those with whom I regularly associate.

The great thing about a film like “The Last Stand” is the simplicity of it all. Action comedies can suffer from thinking too hard, or they can try to take on too much at one time. Not here.

This flick opens with a legendary Mexican drug boss, Gabriel Cortez (Eduardo Noriega), escaping from the hands of the authorities, led by FBI Agent John Bannister (Forest Whitaker), while being transferred to his execution.