Last Ride

Name: Last Ride
Genre: Drama
Released: June 29, 2012
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 68

2012

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Music Box Films | Release Date: June 29, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: Last Ride is a road movie through the ravishing, remote and rugged South Australian outback as ex-jailbird fugitive father Kev takes his 10-year old son Chook on the run from the law. [Music Box Films]

Director: Glendyn Ivin

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Roger Ebert

Jun 28, 2012

The film is astonishing in its visual beauty; cinematographer Greig Fraser ("Snow White and the Huntsman") finds nobility in this arduous journey. Read full review

Megan Lehmann

Jun 28, 2012

A tour-de-force turn from the persistently terrific Hugo Weaving lights a fuse under Last Ride, a spare and wrenching road movie delving into the complexities of a fraught father-son relationship. Read full review

Nick Schager

Jul 3, 2012

Newcomer Russell, at once tough and vulnerable, canny and damaged, delivers a performance of nuanced naturalism that starkly conveys the sorrow and sacrifice that sometimes come with learning to achieve self-sufficiency. Read full review

Alison Willmore

Jun 28, 2012

In spite of that sense of knowing where the film is headed long before it gets there, Last Ride finds poetry in its gorgeous backdrop and its portrait of a complicated character attempting, hopelessly, to set things right after upending the world. Read full review

Farran Smith Nehme

Jul 6, 2012

The trouble is that the film also wants to make Kev at least partly sympathetic, despite his monstrous treatment of his son, and nothing we learn about him ever does, or could, accomplish that. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Jul 5, 2012

Mr. Ivin doesn't have a strong narrative line to play with or become distracted by, but he takes off on some lovely detours, whether he's narrowing in on Chook or going wide to take in the world that waits beyond. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

Jul 5, 2012

Becomes too melodramatic and bleakly obvious. Weaving, though, as always, is never less than magnetic. Read full review

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