The Last Time (2006)

The Worst Film Ever

That was an excellent one.

Sorry, this movie sucks

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Jesus just call this movie The Big Kahuna light. I saw all this in character development first 20 minutes then quit watching. Keaton-call mom show his soft underbelly ....Frasier copy of Mormon guy. Blah Blah Blah. Total copy. Nough said. Good news is you'll sell enough copies to lazy sales managers to show their flunky crew cause it's a sales movie with a certain percentage market. Sigh.

A potentially good who-done-it drama done in by fatally flawed pacing. Why it was classed as a comedy, I cannot imagine, although I spent a lot time laughing and jeering at my TV screen as the DVD ground on to its conclusion. Very early on I was shouting, "You're being set up," which was obvious when a beautiful but mature woman is hanging around dolefully, like a school girl with a crush on a teacher or the high school football star, so that he gets a good nose full of her pheromones, so I holler, "She's got the hook in you, now she's going to set it and reel you in, you fool," and in boring reel after reel she does her thing. What the film needed at this point was for the sex goddess to show up at the old college campus in the front row of his first class, looking her sweet sorrowful self, crossing and uncrossing her great legs while he sweats and stammers his welcome to the students. (I guess this would make it a "fish out of water" movie.) The sad part is it could'a been a passably good drama, even without Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray touch, laying there balefully like Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in Apocalypse Now. "Exterminate the brutes!" was more legible than whatever they excerpted from the Dorian Gray story. Too bad. Oh yes, I actually did enjoy the movie. It wasn't all that bad. At least I didn't go to sleep in the middle of it.

This movie didn't know if it was a dark comedy or a thriller or a drama or all three, a better. more experienced director may have been able to blend them all together.What also disappointed me here was the twist after the twist, it should have ended with keaton realizing he had been scammed but again, we have to have a Hollywood ending so in the final scene keaton goes back to school smiling like nothing happened.I didn't see the main twist coming which is always a plus point, I thought there would be a revenge ending but on reflection, its quite implausible what Fraser and Valetta's characters did.Nevertheless if you don't think about this too much, its an OK rainy day movie. I watched it for free on comcast's on demand service which I wouldn't recommend as there are ads for TNT programing every 10 minutes and all the swear words are cut which i didn't like.

This was a surprisingly good movie. Its a good drama with a little bit of black and satirical comedy. It has a solid and convincing plot, the story about Jamie, a supposedly happy guy who arrives to NY with his fiancée Balisa to work as a salesman where he meets Ted, another some kind of bitter and unfriendly co-worker salesman that is teaching him the way the business is supposed to be. When Ted falls in love of Belisa, the lives of all three begin to change. It is full of twists and although it begins a little slow,it gets a very good rhythm around its second half with and unexpected ending. Michael Caleo did a really good job directing his very first film and also by writing the script. The cast is very good and the acting was decent overall. Michael Keaton was excellent, giving his best performance in a very very long time, Brendan Fraser is also very good, he has some very funny moments, he isn't a young actor anymore but he has been evolving in his acting, Amber Valetta a young and beautiful actress, her role was important for the story. In conclusion, its a thrilling, entertaining and enjoyable film that will keep you on the edge of your seat. A movie that makes you see how life can change in just a second