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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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There's no affection in this mean-spirited sendup of 'the business' and nothing to mitigate its sour taste.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
09/24/04
Jami Bernard
Jami Bernard
New York Daily News

The Last Shot is wildly uneven, but contains moments that are right up there with The Player.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
09/24/04
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post

It's so screwy you feel affection for it.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
09/24/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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The movie has one joke, but it's a funny joke.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
09/24/04
Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post

It succeeds in appearing not only to approximate a real Hollywood production, but to actually be one itself.

Full Review Source: IGN Movies | comment Comment
09/24/04
Todd Gilchrist
Todd Gilchrist
IGN Movies

a more deft hand at the helm would have helped things appreciably

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
09/24/04
Robin Clifford
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews

Has the blunt energy of a teamster's truck taking on speed bumps...watch underrated actors Broderick and Baldwin try to outdo each other.

Full Review Source: Groucho Reviews | comment Comment
09/24/04
Peter Canavese
Peter Canavese
Groucho Reviews

A hit-and-miss broadside at Hollywood and the cockeyed optimists who dream of making it big in movies.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
09/24/04
Glenn Whipp
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Daily News

It has a loose, unforced feel to it, a bunch of relatively funny bits and even a couple that are really funny.

Full Review Source: Critic Doctor | comment Comment
09/24/04
Peter Sobczynski
Peter Sobczynski
Critic Doctor

Ensemble comedy about an FBI agent who poses as a producer to catch the mob is occasionally funny, but not great.

Full Review Source: Netflix | comment Comment
09/23/04
James Rocchi
James Rocchi
Netflix

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
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09/23/04
AV Club
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Jeff Nathanson’s attempt tries to tell a nearly unbelievable true story but settles into being an unfocused clone of sharper works

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
09/23/04
Erik Childress
Erik Childress
eFilmCritic.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

The premise of this Disney-funded movie, based on a true story, is promising, but the film itself is a hard slog.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
09/23/04
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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The number of moving parts, storylines and people being shuffled about does the movie in.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
09/23/04
Robert Koehler
Robert Koehler
Variety
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Never achieves liftoff.

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
09/23/04
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone

Cross Get Shorty with State and Main -- Hollywood hustlers, colorful crooks, crafty poseurs, and a production crew on location -- and you have the stuff of The Last Shot. One other thing: eliminate anything funny.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
09/23/04
Steven Rea
Steven Rea
Philadelphia Inquirer

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

An often funny if slight satire that's never as edgy as it thinks it is or as sharply focused as it needs to be to put it in a league with a Get Shorty or a State and Main.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
09/23/04
Michael Rechtshaffen
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
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