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- 1996
- R
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 41 m
- 1996
- R
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 41 m
Summary A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.
Directed By: Walter Hill
Written By: Ryûzô Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, Walter Hill
- 1996
- R
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 41 m
- 1996
- R
- New Line Cinema
- 1 h 41 m
Last Man Standing
44
5.7
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Summary A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.
Directed By: Walter Hill
Written By: Ryûzô Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, Walter Hill
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
44
25% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
54% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
21% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
44
25% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
54% Mixed
13 Reviews
13 Reviews
21% Negative
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
From Lloyd Ahern's breathtaking, earth-toned cinematography to Freeman Davies' uncommonly graceful editing, Last Man Standing is a real class act, an old-fashioned thriller propelled by wildly violent, decidedly modern action sequences.
The movie, in fact, is a lot like Willis' performance: impressive in an iconographic way, but really not nearly as much fun as it should be. It's like watching a spitting contest between totem poles. [20 Sep 1996]
Last Man Standing is utterly bereft of humor -- Hill plays every scene perfectly straight -- and it's a drag. There's no cleverness to Smith's machinations, no joy in watching his plans come to fruition. [20 Sep 1996, p.6G]
In Last Man Standing, we don’t much care; Hill is too busy crafting a classic to pull us in. Apart from those high-impact action scenes, he leeches the movie of immediacy.
Bruce Willis’ one-note performance and the monotonous plotting doom this New Line venture, despite the director’s typically virile staging of the numerous gun battles.
This is a noisy, sadistic and just plain dull rendering of a too-often-told
tale about a mysterious drifter who rides into a lawless outpost and pits rival gangs against each other. The plot, based on Akira Kurosawa's samurai classic Yojimbo, isn't so much dusted off by writer/director Walter Hill (Wild Bill) as propped up. [20 Sep 1996]
Last Man Standing is such a desperately cheerless film, so dry and laconic and wrung out, that you wonder if the filmmakers ever thought that in any way it could be ... fun.
User Score
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Based on 7 User Ratings
5.7
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User Score
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Based on 7 User Ratings
5.7
43% Positive
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