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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.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 33 mins

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. Finally, after years of pitching his morbid screenplay to anyone with even a seventh degree of... 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]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alec Baldwin, Toni Collette, Calista Flockhart, W. Earl Brown

Director: Jeff Nathanson
Producer: Larry Brezner, David Hoberman, Walter Hamada

DVD Info

Release:

Oct 5, 2005

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Deleted Scenes
  • Audio Commentary - 1. Jeff Nathanson - Director/Matthew Broderick - Actor
  • Joan Cusack's Montage
  • Featurette 1. INSPIRED BY ACTUAL EVENTS

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Derek Adams
Time Out New York
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Baldwin’s scenes with Broderick crackle because we see Joe being drawn in by Steven’s loser dreams.

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09/16/05
Jeremy C. Fox
Pajiba
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3.5/5

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

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07/22/05
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures
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2.5/5

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

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05/25/05
Scott Weinberg
DVD Clinic
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3/5

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
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6/10

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....

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05/16/05
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com
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2.5/4

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

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05/13/05
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
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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
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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10/29/04
Arizona Republic
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10/19/04
Jules Brenner
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3.5/5

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.

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10/15/04
Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone
TheMovieChicks.com
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3.5/5

enlivened by a steady stream of contributing talents

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10/14/04
Jules Brenner
Filmcritic.com
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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.

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10/14/04
Jane Sumner
Dallas Morning News
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2/4

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

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10/11/04
David N. Butterworth
Movie Boeuf
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3.5/4

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

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10/08/04
Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee
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Broderick and Baldwin occupy the center ring quite entertainingly, but there's a lot of hysterically funny upstaging from the sidelines.

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10/06/04
Harry Haun
Film Journal International
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2/4

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

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10/06/04
Timothy Knight
Reel.com
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Match the right actors to right roles, and it doesn't always matter when a movie misses its potential.

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10/04/04
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
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