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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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Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Time Out
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Though it's not a blockbuster, it's a pretty good Shot.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
09/24/04
E! Online
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A funny hybrid of Hollywood satire and mob comedy.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
09/24/04
Carla Meyer
Carla Meyer
San Francisco Chronicle

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

The Last Shot delivers cinematic nuggies to Tinsel Town

Full Review Source: Washington Times | comment Comment
09/25/04
Christian Toto
Christian Toto
Washington Times

...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

In the terms of the money-hungry Hollywood mindset, The Last Shot is an amusing, likable sleeper hit, but not an out-of-the-stratosphere blockbuster.

Full Review Source: DustinPutman.com | comment Comment
09/25/04
Dustin Putman
Dustin Putman
DustinPutman.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

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
Film Blather

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

Not as biting as 'The Players' but an intermittently funny story of a Hollywood ticket-taker who is chosen to direct a movie.

Full Review Source: Compuserve | comment Comment
09/25/04
Harvey S. Karten
Harvey S. Karten
Compuserve

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

Treads shaky ground but weathers the flat notes and emerges a comic winner.

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
09/22/04
Jeanne Aufmuth
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly

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)

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

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

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

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10/19/04
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

enlivened by a steady stream of contributing talents

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
10/14/04
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Filmcritic.com

Thoroughly amusing.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
09/24/04
Kenneth Turan
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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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
 
 
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