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Summary: not so hot...
Review: This is the second remake of an excellent movie... Yojimbo... It lacks what the original and it's first remake (Fistful of Dollars) have in abundance: HUMOR. An excessive dependence upon narration also suggests that the director, or the studio vastly underestimates the intelligence of the audience.For a real good movie watch Yojimbo... Or even Fistful of Dollars... Or watch them both and marvel at how much Leone takes, almost shot for shot, from Kurosawa's wonderful film. If you want to ruin that double feature, however, watch this dreary attempt as well. It's a shame, really, because Hill and Willis were a good match for the material. EnJoy
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Summary: Last Man Standing
Review: This latest remake of Yojimbo shows the enduring themes of our violent past and shows that even though we continue with our technological advancement, the basic human foibles of greed, treachery and domination are with us unchanged through the millenia. It usually takes a single man or woman who is willing to stand up for basic human dignity, helps those last fortunate and is willing and capable to annihilate scum to put everything right. Whether a slimeball's head and hands are decoupled from his body with a slashing samurai sword or he is blown through a set of swinging barroom doors by the shredding power of twin, semiautomatic .45 caliber pistols, the result is the same. Justice. What a great movie!
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Summary: insane
Review: this movie is a perfect one for guys who like shoot em' ups. it has fist-fights, gun fights, knife fights, you name a fight and its there. i highly suggest you see this movie.
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Summary: What a movie
Review: This movie is awesome. You don't see a gangster movie like this very often. Bruce Willis plays a drifting death machine. With his dual 45's he wanders into Jerico. Without giving away anything it has got to be said that the whole town of Jerico wasn't ready for Bruce. I like this movie because it is a remake. The first time I saw it, I related it to "A Fist Full of Dollars". It was about time someone made a gangster movie as action packed as this.
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Summary: First man yawning......
Review: This movie is just plain weak. Too bad, because it's based on "Yojimbo", a classic that most people won't see because A) it's in black and white and B) "it's got dem' durn' words at the bottom". Nevertheless, Bruce was the right actor for the part it's just that Walter Hill's script and direction can't hold a candle to Kurosawa's original or Leones' great remake (Fistful of Dollars). My suggstion; rent either, or both of those movie.
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Summary: New slant
Review: Walter Hill is on record as wanting to remake this movie with a new slant. In that he succeeded. He made it dull. That alone is unexpected, because after two great movies you wouldn't have thought it possible. It just goes to show..
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Summary: Tongue-in-cheek humor, blood-on-walls mayhem
Review: Walter Hill's remake of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" (and Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars") is a thoroughly ridiculous and improbably enjoyable gangster melodrama set in 1930s Texas. Bruce Willis plays a mysterious stranger who's caught between rival gangs of bootleggers in a flyspeck border town. He plays both sides against each other, with predictably violent results. Very much like Hill's under-rated "Streets of Fire," a rock-and-roll sci-fi action-adventure musical, "Last Man Standing" is set in an alternative universe where the language consists mainly of B-movie cliches and the entire population seems to be culled from Central Casting. Everything is synthetic, everyone is an archetype, and the plot has the contrived inevitability of Greek tragedy as played by Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney. (Willis actually sports the same hair-do Bogart had in "High Sierra.") This is the sort of thing that, when done too solemnly, can be a tediously self-conscious bore. But Hill takes great care to infuse the material with tongue-in-cheek humor as well as blood-on-walls mayhem
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Summary: Tongue-in-cheek humor, blood-on-walls mayhem
Review: Walter Hill's remake of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" (and Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars") is a thoroughly ridiculous and improbably enjoyable gangster melodrama set in 1930s Texas. Bruce Willis plays a mysterious stranger who's caught between rival gangs of bootleggers in a flyspeck border town. He plays both sides against each other, with predictably violent results. Very much like Hill's under-rated "Streets of Fire," a rock-and-roll sci-fi action-adventure musical, "Last Man Standing" is set in an alternative universe where the language consists mainly of B-movie cliches and the entire population seems to be culled from Central Casting. Everything is synthetic, everyone is an archetype, and the plot has the contrived inevitability of Greek tragedy as played by Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney. (Willis actually sports the same hair-do Bogart had in "High Sierra.") This is the sort of thing that, when done too solemnly, can be a tediously self-conscious bore. But Hill takes great care to infuse the material with tongue-in-cheek humor as well as blood-on-walls mayhem
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Summary: the most entertaining movie ive seen in years
Review: walter hill(director) takes bruce willis (one of todays most popular action stars) and puts him in a do or die position.this movie takes place in the late twenty's, in a small town close to the mexico border which gives it a gangster/western type feel.
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Summary: A drifter comes to town...
Review: Why are these gangsters still in the town of Jericho? Why are they there to begin with, so far from Chicago, where their double-breasted suits and fedoras and .45s are more at home? And who is this guy John Smith who blows into town and proceeds to blow holes in all of them with his twin guns? Moody, dusty, sad, violent and dismal, Walter Hill does it his way, and doesn't pretend that this is more than a sad and existential and downright downbeat updated Western where men exist only to be ventilated. This film was drubbed by critics unfairly I think. It deserves a second look.
Nick
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