By ripping up a cinema ticket that once belonged to the magician Houdini, young Danny finds himself projected onto the other side of the screen and into the world of his favourite hero, Jack Slater.
With a very meta script by Shane Black, John McTiernan revises the buddy movie and all of the action film codes that he helped to establish. The result is a thrilling and definitive work, which shouts out his love of 1980s blockbusters, only to bury them once and for all.