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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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  • THE LAST SHOT is the laugh-out-loud comedy caper that takes the movie business, the Mob, and the FBI and turns them into some very funny business indeed. Matthew Broderick (THE STEPFORD WIVES) and Academy Award? nominee Alec Baldwin (Best Supporting Actor, THE COOLER, 2003; ALONG CAME POLLY) head a cast of outstanding stars who steal scenes and grab your funny bone every chance they get. After years of being on the A-List of complete failures, Hollywood screenwriter Steven Schats (Broderick) meets Joe Devine (Baldwin), a producer who green-lights his movie and makes him the director. But Devine isn't who he claims to be, not by a long shot. He's really an FBI agent using the movie in a sting to take down the mob. Inspired by the true story of the greatest movie never made, THE LAST SHOT is truly funny.
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    There's no affection in this mean-spirited sendup of 'the business' and nothing to mitigate its sour taste.

    Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
    09/24/04
    Jami Bernard
    Jami Bernard
    New York Daily News
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    The Last Shot is wildly uneven, but contains moments that are right up there with The Player.

    Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
    09/24/04
    Lou Lumenick
    Lou Lumenick
    New York Post
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    It's so screwy you feel affection for it.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
    09/24/04
    Roger Ebert
    Roger Ebert
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    The movie has one joke, but it's a funny joke.

    Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
    09/24/04
    Stephen Hunter
    Stephen Hunter
    Washington Post
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    It succeeds in appearing not only to approximate a real Hollywood production, but to actually be one itself.

    Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
    09/24/04
    Todd Gilchrist
    Todd Gilchrist
    IGN Movies

    a more deft hand at the helm would have helped things appreciably

    Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
    09/24/04
    Robin Clifford
    Robin Clifford
    Reeling Reviews

    Has the blunt energy of a teamster's truck taking on speed bumps...watch underrated actors Broderick and Baldwin try to outdo each other.

    Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
    09/24/04
    Peter Canavese
    Peter Canavese
    Groucho Reviews

    A hit-and-miss broadside at Hollywood and the cockeyed optimists who dream of making it big in movies.

    Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
    09/24/04
    Glenn Whipp
    Glenn Whipp
    Los Angeles Daily News

    It has a loose, unforced feel to it, a bunch of relatively funny bits and even a couple that are really funny.

    Full Review Source: Critic Doctor | comment Comment
    09/24/04
    Peter Sobczynski
    Peter Sobczynski
    Critic Doctor

    Ensemble comedy about an FBI agent who poses as a producer to catch the mob is occasionally funny, but not great.

    Full Review Source: Netflix | comment Comment
    09/23/04
    James Rocchi
    James Rocchi
    Netflix

    A very funny film at times, written with a sharp ear for absurdity and performed by some very talented people.

    Full Review Source: Film Blather | comment Comment
    09/23/04
    Eugene Novikov
    Eugene Novikov
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    09/23/04
    AV Club

    Jeff Nathanson’s attempt tries to tell a nearly unbelievable true story but settles into being an unfocused clone of sharper works

    Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
    09/23/04
    Erik Childress
    Erik Childress
    eFilmCritic.com

    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.

    Full Review Source: FilmJerk.com | comment Comment
    09/23/04
    Edward Havens
    Edward Havens
    FilmJerk.com

    The premise of this Disney-funded movie, based on a true story, is promising, but the film itself is a hard slog.

    Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
    09/23/04
    A.O. Scott
    A.O. Scott
    New York Times
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    The number of moving parts, storylines and people being shuffled about does the movie in.

    Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
    09/23/04
    Robert Koehler
    Robert Koehler
    Variety
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    Never achieves liftoff.

    Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
    09/23/04
    Peter Travers
    Peter Travers
    Rolling Stone
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    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.

    Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
    09/23/04
    Steven Rea
    Steven Rea
    Philadelphia Inquirer

    With a few detours into questionable taste, it's a hoot.

    Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
    09/23/04
    John Anderson
    John Anderson
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    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.

    Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
    09/23/04
    Michael Rechtshaffen
    Michael Rechtshaffen
    Hollywood Reporter
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