The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood’s Kings of Carnage

Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris, Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, Stephen Seagal, Bruce Willis, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Dolph Lundgren: these were the names that dominated action films in the 1980s and 90s, the action heroes that brought heart-pounding and blood-drenched excitement to our lives through movies that we still know and love to this day.

In the pages of The Last Action Heroes, author Nick de Semlyen takes us on a journey through the public and private lives of these great action stars, chronicling their rise to stardom and the carnage they wreaked both on and off the silver screen.

It’s a fascinating look at a truly marvelous period of Hollywood movie-making and the men—nay, the action heroes—who live on through movies like Rambo, Commando, and Die Hard to this day.