Last Man Standing

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Summary: HUDSON HAWK REDUX
Review: 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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Summary: Willis, Walken, what more is there to say?
Review: Willis, Walken, Guns, Blood, Action, what more is there to say? For get some stupid old Japaneese movie, if you are an American and like real classics like "Die Hard", "The Last Boy Scout", then don't miss this movie. It's heck of alot better than that junk "Yojimbo", I have to say, that is the most stupid movie title I've ever heard in my life! I couldn't sit through the whole thing. This film is a masterpeice, turn ya brian off and enjoy a good action movie. a movie only a guy could love!

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Summary: A guilty pleasure . . .
Review: 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.