On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 38% based on 48 reviews, with an average rating of 4.91/10. The site's critical consensus reads, ""Last Action Hero" has most of the right ingredients for a big-budget action spoof, but its scattershot tone and uneven structure only add up to a confused, chaotic mess." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 44 out of 100 based on 19 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale.