The Last Ride Reviews

Alas, "The Last Ride" doesn't deliver much insight into Williams or the lifestyle that killed him.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The Last Ride doesn't give us a complete picture of Hank Williams. But it does ably illustrate the final days of his life.

Full Review | Original Score: B

James does a fine job of portraying a naïve youth whose eyes slowly open to glimpse both the pleasures and the pain of living.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

Dramatically thin, formally uninspired and thematically weak, "The Last Ride" really goes nowhere.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

Bearing all the hallmarks of a small-budget labor of love, The Last Ride is a leisurely paced but modestly engaging road trip that gets considerable mileage from the byplay between its two lead characters.

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This one is for Hank Williams fanatics only, and Mr. Thomas puts a dark and subtle sheen on a disappointingly watery script.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

The film can't really function as a proper meditation on its subject - because he's not really its subject.

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Director Harry Thomason takes some unnecessary liberties in imagining Hank Williams' final days.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

It's a fascinating film that I enjoyed thoroughly.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

It portrays Williams in a generally sympathetic light without whitewashing his vice-loving, belligerent ways or mythologizing them in a bid for postmortem psychoanalysis.

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At least Thomas gives a suitably burned-out performance as Williams. He's almost enough to melt your cold, cold heart.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5