There's no affection in this mean-spirited sendup of 'the business' and nothing to mitigate its sour taste.
The Last Shot (2004)
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Reviews Counted:65
Fresh:39
Rotten:26
Average Rating:5.9/10
Consensus: Wildly uneven comedy.
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for language and some sexual content
Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Sep 24, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $376,790
Synopsis: Hollywood screenwriter Steven Schats (MATTHEW BRODERICK) is on the A-List of complete failures. With visions of development deals dancing in his head, his only ambition in life is to make movies.... Hollywood screenwriter Steven Schats (MATTHEW BRODERICK) is on the A-List of complete failures. With visions of development deals dancing in his head, his only ambition in life is to make movies. Finally, after years of pitching his morbid screenplay to anyone with even a seventh degree of separation from a producer, he is suddenly about to join the ranks of the WGA's working roster. Which explains why he's eager to overlook the fact that Joe Devine (ALEC BALDWIN), who represents himself as the man who can green-light Steven's low-budget movie, is obviously more than a few film frames short of any box office insight. In a town where perception is reality, and imposters outnumber unproduced screenplays two to one, Devine is not who he claims to be. In truth, he's an agent—not of the William Morris variety— but with the FBI, and he's on a covert mission to ferret out the mob with criminal ties to Hollywood. While hardly the sharpest tool in the crime fighting shed, Devine is as determined to be a star at the Bureau as Schats is to be one in his industry. And he's just clever enough to make the trusting screenwriter believe that at last he's on the fast track to filmmaking success, in Touchstone Pictures' comedy, "The Last Shot." Touchstone Pictures presents A Morra, Brezner, Steinberg and Tenenbaum Production, in association with Mandeville Films, "The Last Shot," written and directed by Jeff Nathanson, based upon an article by Steve Fishman. Produced by Larry Brezner and David Hoberman, the film is executive produced by Stan Wlodkowski and Todd Lieberman.The co-producer is Ellen Erwin. "The Last Shot" is distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. -- © Buena Vista Pictures [More]
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alec Baldwin, Toni Collette, Calista Flockhart
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alec Baldwin, Toni Collette, Calista Flockhart, W. Earl Brown, Tony Shalhoub, Joan Cusack
Director: Jeff Nathanson
Director: Jeff Nathanson
Producer: Larry Brezner, David Hoberman, Walter Hamada
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
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Reviews for The Last Shot
The Last Shot is wildly uneven, but contains moments that are right up there with The Player.
It succeeds in appearing not only to approximate a real Hollywood production, but to actually be one itself.
Has the blunt energy of a teamster's truck taking on speed bumps...watch underrated actors Broderick and Baldwin try to outdo each other.
A hit-and-miss broadside at Hollywood and the cockeyed optimists who dream of making it big in movies.
It has a loose, unforced feel to it, a bunch of relatively funny bits and even a couple that are really funny.
Ensemble comedy about an FBI agent who poses as a producer to catch the mob is occasionally funny, but not great.
A very funny film at times, written with a sharp ear for absurdity and performed by some very talented people.
Jeff Nathanson’s attempt tries to tell a nearly unbelievable true story but settles into being an unfocused clone of sharper works
The level of enjoyment one might get from a film about the film industry is probably exponentially based on one’s own interest or involvement within the film industry.
The premise of this Disney-funded movie, based on a true story, is promising, but the film itself is a hard slog.
The number of moving parts, storylines and people being shuffled about does the movie in.
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.
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 to put it in a league with a Get Shorty or a State and Main.
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