The Last Shot: Critic Reviews

Succeeds modestly where, by all rights, it should fail miserably.

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

The movie has one joke, but it's a funny joke.

There are some very funny passing lines, but the movie's too uneven to enjoy.

Minor but racy and enjoyably rude.

Planned inanity never gets mad mad mad mad enough, and insider jabs like "I'm not a fake, I'm a director!" don't have the desired zaniness.

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

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.

It's so screwy you feel affection for it.

[Director Jeff Nathanson] sucks the life and the timing out of every scene.

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.

The number of moving parts, storylines and people being shuffled about does the movie in.

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

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.

Never achieves liftoff.

Thoroughly amusing.

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

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

Divertido em seu humor ingenuo e inofensivo, conquista principalmente gracas ao carisma da dupla principal.

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....