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Last Shot, The
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Mixed or average reviews
Based on 22 critic reviews
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Based on 5 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Comedy | Crime
Written by:
Jeff Nathanson
Steve Fishman (article)
Directed by: Jeff Nathanson
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 24, 2004
DVD: May 10, 2005
Running Time: 93 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
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)
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What The Critics Said
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...
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.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Carla Meyer
The film doesn't always work, but it captures the buzz of moviemaking, and that's infectious.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
Despite its generic title and flat ending, tickles most of the way through.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Wildly uneven, but contains moments that are right up there with "The Player."
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Variety Robert Koehler
Contains most of the elements of a "Get Shorty"-type romp without the character depth and wit.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Tim Appelo
Appealingly cheesy, a tribute to the hope that springs eternal in the hopelessly inept.
Read Full Review >Dallas Observer Jean Oppenheimer
Most of it is decidedly lame. The actors, however, are ingratiating.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
Laborious and logy when it should be madcap and effervescent.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
There are some very funny passing lines, but the movie's too uneven to enjoy.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.2 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
jody p/ gave it a9:
Yes the ending was flat but. the laughs were there.You feel for matthew character and alex.Being just an average person watching the people in the FBI.
Levis O. gave it a5:
It's quite good but should have much MUCH better than this.
Jeff L. gave it a 7:
Fast-paced, extremely likeable, periodically hilarious farce about an eager FBI agent (Alec Baldwin) who sets up a sting operation against mobster Tony Shalhoub by setting up a phony movie production. Of course, the would-be film's naive first-time writer/director (Matthew Broderick), his sexy ditz of a star (delicious Toni Collette), and the rest of the principals have no idea that their movie isn't really being made. Perhaps the fact that the screenplay is called "Arizona" and they're forced to shoot the thing in chilly Providence, Rhode Island, should have been their first clue, but Hollywood self-delusion is certainly one of the film's main targets. Furthermore, Baldwin and his FBI cohorts become so seduced by the idea of making a movie they nearly lose sight of their "real" jobs. The plot is sort of Get Shorty meets The Producers, with one of the best supporting casts of the year, including memorable turns by Joan Cusack, Calista Flockhart, Ray Liotta, Tim Blake Nelson, and Buck Henry, among others (also a few cameos I won't spoil by giving away.) A treat for film buffs and anyone who enjoys well-oiled farce.
Mike R. gave it a 10:
Thought it was hilarious - so many great little jokes injected throughout the film. Broderick and Baldwin are great together too - and Cusack's supporting role almost made me pee my pants.
