Last Man Standing | | Cast : | Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern | | Director : | Walter Hill | | Studio : | New Line Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Black & White, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | September 20, 1996 | | DVD Released Date : | September 14, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 15, 2005 | | Summary | EITHER YOU LOVE IT OR HATE IT... | Content
 | TWO RIVAL GANGS FEUD AND A LONER [BRUCE WILLIS] ALIGNS HIMSELF WITH BOTH GANGS WITH HIS OWN GOAL IN MIND. THIS REMAKE OF ''YOJIMBO'' [WHICH WAS ALSO REMADE BEFORE AS ''A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS''] IS UNEVEN. FEATURES GOOD PERFORMANCES BUT IT'S NOT PACED TOO WELL AND THERE COULD'VE BEEN MORE ACTION. BUT, FANS OF GANGSTER MOVIES SHOULD BE, FOR THE MOST PART, PLEASED WITH THIS MOVIE. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 05, 2005 | | Summary | What you talkin' about, Willis? | Content
| I'll tell you what he's talkin' about - a great violent movie, Baby!
Yeah, I know violence isn't usually a great thing. Please don't sent me hate emails, okay? (I get enough of those from my ex-girlfriends.)
This is a good movie with a good script. Yes, it's violent, but that's what the script calls for. Bruce Willis, as always, gives a great performance in this.
Funny story about when I saw this in the theater: when I walked in there were only two other people there - an old couple. They walked out halfway through the movie. Then it was just me watching LAST MAN STANDING all by myself.
At the end, an usher walked in, pointed at me, and yelled out, "Look - it's 'Last Man Sitting!'"
Funny usher! |
| Rating | | | Date | November 30, 2004 | | Summary | Horrendous | Content
| One of the worst movies i've ever seen in my life. I'd rather watch a woman giving birth BARF |
| Rating | | | Date | October 06, 2004 | | Summary | Good stuff | Content
| Okay let me get this clear, I have this wierd obsession of gunfighting, not just gun fighting, but to be more specific dual weapon gunfights. A gun for each hand, to me that is the pinnacle of badass. When I see a action movie I don't care about explosions, attractive women, or stupid car chases. I hate all that garbage American directors throw in thier films. I wanna see gritty no holds gunfighting. I enjoy either a realistic gun battle (Way of the gun, Heat, etc...) or all out unrealistic (The Killer, Hard Boiled, The Matrix, etc...) So combine the gritty dirt quality, with Bruce Willis only fighting with two pistols, and lack of explosions, you can understand why I enjoy this movie. One thing this movie has, that is not used enough in action movies is the depressing voice over, like in the video game Max Payne. That game would make a damn fine movie. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 31, 2004 | | Summary | A guilty pleasure . . . | Content
| Yeah, I know that I should not like this movie. . . lots of violence, woman are portrayed in a subservient roles, but gosh darn, I just like it. A gangster movie set in Texas border town of Jericho during the Great Depression, Bruce Willis plays the drifter John Smith who allies himself with two rival gangs as they battle each other for the control of the bootleg liquor trade. The cinematography is beautiful and the gunfights are violent and well done. And yes, when Bruce gets beat up, he is actually hurt to the point of nearly being disable.
The underlying theme of the movie is moral choice each of us has to choose right or wrong. John Smith described himself as a man without a conscience, but as the movie progresses, he is driven not so much as for the profit motive, but to do the right thing, even is it means his death. The Mexican girl, played my Alexandra Powers, whose devotion to God is the moral center in this seemly amoral world of gangs, booze and guns. The Willis character is first drawn to her by her wistful beauty, then later by his determination to free her from white slavery.
No, it is not a masterpiece and will never make the list of the 20th centuries top movies, but it is a guy flick, filled with action, violence and a moral center. So slip this DVD into your player, turn up the sound and get ready to see a pretty good action flick. Perhaps, this may because one of your movie guilty pleasures.
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