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82
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81
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38
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35
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28
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28
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22
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18
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16
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Last Shot, The
Buena Vista Pictures
MPAA RATING: R for language and some sexual content
Starring
Matthew Broderick,
Alec Baldwin,
Toni Collette,
Tony Shalhoub,
Calista Flockhart,
Tim Blake Nelson,
Buck Henry,
and
Ray Liotta
Based on the hilarious true story of the greatest motion picture never made, The Last Shot shows how everybody - even the FBI - can get caught up in the allure, glamour and glitz of Hollywood. (Touchstone Pictures)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
Crime
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Jeff Nathanson
Steve Fishman (article)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Jeff Nathanson
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: May 10, 2005
Theatrical: September 24, 2004
|
| RUNNING TIME: |
93 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Not a well-oiled enterprise but more of a series of laughs separated by waits for more laughs. It has a kind of earnest, eager quality, and it's so screwy you feel affection for it.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Carla Meyer
The film doesn't always work, but it captures the buzz of moviemaking, and that's infectious.

70
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Despite its generic title and flat ending, tickles most of the way through.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
It's deftly done with an off-the-wall sense of humor joined to a real insider's sense of how the business operates.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown
Teetering on an abyss of meta-wackiness, The Last Shot -- a movie about movie fakery, based on a true story about a fake movie -- succeeds modestly where, by all rights, it should fail miserably.

63
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Wildly uneven, but contains moments that are right up there with "The Player."

63
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Any movie that would think Calista Flockhart to be the sort of high-strung basket case who'd hurl obscenities down at a dog kennel outside her apartment is worth sitting through.

60
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Given an irresistible premise, Nathanson doesn't trust his material enough to follow through without excessive mugging, but his sense of the absurd leads to amusing digressions along the way.

50
Variety
Robert Koehler
Contains most of the elements of a "Get Shorty"-type romp without the character depth and wit.

50
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
Flockhart, as an actress desperate to show the world her talent but lethally unsure if she has any, embodies the obsessively driven personality it must take to make it, or to try to make it, in pictures. She's the personification of what The Last Shot could have been.

50
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
An often funny if slight satire that's never as edgy as it thinks it is or as sharply focused as it needs to be.

50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Baldwin and Broderick each click in their roles and consistently rise above their material in every scene. But the movie around them falls flat and can't begin to sustain its premise.

50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
But there's no affection in this mean-spirited sendup of "the business" and nothing to mitigate its sour taste.

50
LA Weekly
Tim Appelo
Appealingly cheesy, a tribute to the hope that springs eternal in the hopelessly inept.

50
Dallas Observer
Jean Oppenheimer
Most of it is decidedly lame. The actors, however, are ingratiating.

40
Village Voice
Laura Sinagra
Planned inanity never gets mad mad mad mad enough.

40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
Nathanson processes this pungent stew of greed, ambition and self-delusion into pablum so sweet and bland it wouldn't shock a convent-raised idealist.

40
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Unfunny and instantly forgettable comedy.

40
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
Laborious and logy when it should be madcap and effervescent.

30
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
There are some very funny passing lines, but the movie's too uneven to enjoy.

25
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Cross "Get Shorty" with "State and Main" - Hollywood hustlers, colorful crooks, crafty poseurs, and a production crew on location - and you have the stuff of The Last Shot. One other thing: eliminate anything funny.

25
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Never achieves liftoff.


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