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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.

Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

Genre: Comedies

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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08/07/08
Mark Halverson
Mark Halverson
Sacramento News & Review
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Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
08/16/07
Derek Adams
Derek Adams
Time Out New York

The Last Shot is a fun movie that didn’t make much of a splash.

Full Review Source: 7M Pictures | comment Comment
07/22/05
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

It's got some really solid actors and even a fairly amusing premise ... so where are all the laughs?

Full Review Source: DVD Clinic | comment Comment
05/25/05
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
DVD Clinic

Divertido em seu humor ingênuo e inofensivo, conquista principalmente graças ao carisma da dupla principal.

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05/23/05
Pablo Villaca
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05/21/05
Betty Jo Tucker
Betty Jo Tucker
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

The story tries to make up for its lack of laughs by offering a series of quirky characters and bizarre moments, a tactic that works for a while but runs out of steam....

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
05/16/05
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

...never quite becomes anything more than a marginally entertaining way to kill 93 minutes.

Full Review Source: Reel Film Reviews | comment Comment
05/13/05
David Nusair
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews

There must be a story behind the orphaning of this odd, insidery Hollywood comedy reputedly based on a true story.

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01/27/05
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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10/29/04
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10/19/04
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

A silly movie that never for a minute tries to be anything else...it doesn't require anything from its audience but to laugh and enjoy the show.

Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com | comment Comment
10/15/04
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com

enlivened by a steady stream of contributing talents

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10/14/04
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Filmcritic.com

The Last Shot doesn't crackle and pop, but the send-up of Hollywood and the government gets off some good lines and generally endears itself with a kind of earnest scattershot loopiness.

Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News | comment Comment
10/14/04
Jane Sumner
Jane Sumner
Dallas Morning News

The Last Shot commits the cardinal sin of comedies: it isn't funny.

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10/11/04
David N. Butterworth
David N. Butterworth
Movie Boeuf

There's an eccentric enchantment and easy friendliness to screenwriter Jeff Nathanson's modest debut film.

Full Review Source: Sacramento Bee | comment Comment
10/08/04
Joe Baltake
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee

Broderick and Baldwin occupy the center ring quite entertainingly, but there's a lot of hysterically funny upstaging from the sidelines.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
10/06/04
Harry Haun
Harry Haun
Film Journal International

Ultimately plays like a low-rent version of the far superior Get Shorty.

Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
10/06/04
Timothy Knight
Timothy Knight
Reel.com

Match the right actors to right roles, and it doesn't always matter when a movie misses its potential.

Full Review Source: Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) | comment Comment
10/04/04
Jeffrey Westhoff
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
 
 
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