The Last Shot 2004

Critics score:
61 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Allison Benedikt, Chicago Tribune: [Director Jeff Nathanson] sucks the life and the timing out of every scene. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's all very loose and, while occasionally diverting, doesn't really add up to anything. Read more

Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: An affectionate satire of Hollywood's fringe players. Read more

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Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Minor but racy and enjoyably rude. Read more

Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Thoroughly amusing. Read more

Scott Brown, Entertainment Weekly: Succeeds modestly where, by all rights, it should fail miserably. Read more

Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News: 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. Read more

Tim Appelo, L.A. Weekly: Appealingly cheesy, a tribute to the hope that springs eternal in the hopelessly inept. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: With a few detours into questionable taste, it's a hoot. Read more

Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: A ripped-from-the- headlines story rendered with wit, imagination and no small amount of moxie. Read more

Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: There's no affection in this mean-spirited sendup of 'the business' and nothing to mitigate its sour taste. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: The premise of this Disney-funded movie, based on a true story, is promising, but the film itself is a hard slog. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's so screwy you feel affection for it. Read more

Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: A funny hybrid of Hollywood satire and mob comedy. Read more

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Robert Koehler, Variety: The number of moving parts, storylines and people being shuffled about does the movie in. Read more

Laura Sinagra, Village Voice: 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. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: There are some very funny passing lines, but the movie's too uneven to enjoy. Read more

Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: The movie has one joke, but it's a funny joke. Read more