Average Rating: 5.6/10
Reviews Counted: 115
Fresh: 60 | Rotten: 55
The Last Castle is well acted and rousing for the most part, but the story can't stand up to close scrutiny.
Average Rating: 5.6/10
Critic Reviews: 27
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 13
The Last Castle is well acted and rousing for the most part, but the story can't stand up to close scrutiny.
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Robert Redford stars in this action drama as General Irwin, a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court-martialed and sent to The Castle, a maximum security military prison. Irwin quickly butts heads with the facility's autocratic warden, Colonel Winter (James Gandolfini), who runs his command with an iron fist, even killing prisoners when he deems it necessary. Irwin rallies his fellow convicts into a rag-tag army and leads them in a revolt against Winter, an
Oct 19, 2001 Wide
Mar 5, 2002
$17.9M
Dreamworks Distribution LLC
All Critics (133) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (61) | Rotten (56) | DVD (18)
Bizarre, confused, sanctimonious manure.
The themes that ring out most loudly in the end -- some men are just born leaders; others do best if they just conform -- are numbingly retrograde.
Devolves into a mundane warden-versus-inmate conclusion.
A heavy-handed military prison melodrama.
A dull, borderline inept action-prison drama, in which lead star Robert Redford is totally wasted.
Lurie's first attempt at a larger-scale production isn't entirely successful...
Os diálogos são ótimos, os dois antagonistas são bem desenhados e corretamente vividos por seus intérpretes, mas é uma pena que, nos últimos minutos, torne-se formulaico demais.
After impressing with his debut, former film critic Lurie has destroyed all of his credibility in the space of two hours with this display of jaundiced jingoism.
Robert Redford's military prison drama contains cruel and unusual punishment -- for the audience.
A flawed, if watchable drama concerning a former general (Robert Redford) who is sent to prison under the watch of a sadistic warden (James Gandolfini), and how he rouses the inmates to rise up against the corrupt warden. Redford is perfect as the silent rebel type, with Gandolfini an ideal fit as the ego maniacal
September 21, 2008Super Reviewer
Unremarkable. A good idea gone to waste as all the usual prison movie cliques take over. The ending is so over the top it turns from nice idea to complete rubbish. Watch Cool Hand Luke instead!
October 1, 2009Super Reviewer
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