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 | 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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| Rating | | | Date | August 21, 2004 | | Summary | HUDSON HAWK REDUX | Content
| WHY DOES BRUCE WILLIS whisper so much in this movie? Is he trying to be Clint Eastwood? Bruce should be ashamed of this movie, much as in the vein of HUDSON HAWK. Director Walter Hill stages a violent, vengeance-driven movie with some fancy gunfights and lots and lots of dead bodies. In fact by the time the movie's over, only four of the actors are left alive.
There is an underlying cruelty to this movie that succeeds because there is no one to really LIKE in this movie at all. The three women involved are all portrayed as sexual toys, and none of them including the wistful Mexican girl are given any real life. All of the others are sterotypical: William Sanderson's goofball Joe who becomes Willis' sidekick; Christopher Walken's glowering Hickey who tries to be scary as hell but only comes across impotent; Bruce Dern's fluctuating sheriff who changes side as quickly as his underwear; David Patrick Kelley's big guy in a little body blustering; Michael Imperioli's hilarious portrait of Giorgio; and Willis' own character, a man who works both sides and really shows little loyalty to anyone, except the Mexican girlfriend of Kelly.
LAST MAN STANDING may not bore you, although it gets to the point of wondering how many times Willis can shoot ten or eleven men at once and not even get wounded.
Grim and oppressive, LAST MAN STANDING is not a fun film to watch. |
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