
Last Embrace
1979, Mystery and thriller, 1h 43m
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Cast & Crew
Harry Hannan
Ellie Fabian
Richard Peabody
Sam Urdell
Dave Quittle
Eckart
Critic Reviews for Last Embrace
All Critics (7) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (5)
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Suspense tropes that Demme would tweak to much greater effect in Silence of the Lambs just don't come off here, and the leads never generate romantic sparks.
August 28, 2018 | Full Review… -
Demme puts nothing of himself into these paranoid shenanigans -- the movie is all too transparently his attempt to do something bankable.
April 9, 2007 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review… -
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October 14, 2005 | Rating: 2/5 -
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October 8, 2005 | Rating: 2/5 -
Belabored imitation Hitchcock
July 22, 2005 | Rating: 3/5 -
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June 29, 2005 | Rating: C
Audience Reviews for Last Embrace
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Apr 04, 2013"Last Embrace" is an incompetently executed, wildly incoherent and overly melodramatic neo-noir thriller that's one of the dullest, most tepidly inspired pieces of cinema I've ever watched. Aside from Roy Scheider, whose performance is so over-the-top that it's almost admirable, the acting is laughably poor from the entire cast, and everything from the pacing to the direction to the lighting is painfully inept. How Jonathan Demme, Tak Fujimoto, Barry Malkin and Miklós Rózsa could get together and make sure a godawful hunk of soap opera-ish garbage is beyond me. It's an experience I hope never to endure again.Stephen E Super Reviewer
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Jan 10, 2009This is a splendid little Hitchcockian thriller from Jonathan Demme. Roy Scheider plays Harry Hannan, a government agent recovering from a nervous breakdown after losing his wife in a botched attempt on his life. Fearful of further assassination attempts after being labelled a dangerous liability by his boss, Harry's nerves are shredded even further when he receives a mysterious death threat in Biblical Hebrew. Although certain characters (guilt-ridden, delicate hero - <I>Vertigo</I>), situations (shower scene - <I>Psycho</I>) and settings (bell tower - <I>Vertigo</I> again) are unmistakably Hitchcockian - and the movie even finds time to reference first generation Hitchcock clones like Henry Hathaway's <I>Niagara</I> - Demme's film is always a cut above mere pastiche because he makes little or no attempt to imitate the master's style. In place of Hitch's elegant backdrops and rigidly storyboarded perfectionism, Demme substitutes gritty locations, handheld camerawork and spontaneity. Scheider is superb as the haunted hero and Miklos Rozsa's score is simply beautiful.Stephen M Super Reviewer
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Mar 06, 2007A tackily directed 70s forerunner to the likes of Basic Instinct, this overly melodramatic tale of a burnt out secret agent who recieves a calling card from a serial killer is often unconvincing, and often just plain silly.xGary X Super Reviewer
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