The Last Shot
Buena Vista Pictures | Release Date: September 24, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
47
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 22 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
12
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Not a well-oiled enterprise but more of a series of laughs separated by waits for more laughs. It has a kind of earnest, eager quality, and it's so screwy you feel affection for it. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleCarla Meyer
The film doesn't always work, but it captures the buzz of moviemaking, and that's infectious. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
It's deftly done with an off-the-wall sense of humor joined to a real insider's sense of how the business operates. Read full review
70
Washington PostStephen Hunter
Despite its generic title and flat ending, tickles most of the way through. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyScott Brown
Teetering on an abyss of meta-wackiness, The Last Shot -- a movie about movie fakery, based on a true story about a fake movie -- succeeds modestly where, by all rights, it should fail miserably. Read full review
63
New York PostLou Lumenick
Wildly uneven, but contains moments that are right up there with "The Player." Read full review
63
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Any movie that would think Calista Flockhart to be the sort of high-strung basket case who'd hurl obscenities down at a dog kennel outside her apartment is worth sitting through. Read full review
60
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Given an irresistible premise, Nathanson doesn't trust his material enough to follow through without excessive mugging, but his sense of the absurd leads to amusing digressions along the way. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneAllison Benedikt
Flockhart, as an actress desperate to show the world her talent but lethally unsure if she has any, embodies the obsessively driven personality it must take to make it, or to try to make it, in pictures. She's the personification of what The Last Shot could have been. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
An often funny if slight satire that's never as edgy as it thinks it is or as sharply focused as it needs to be. Read full review
50
VarietyRobert Koehler
Contains most of the elements of a "Get Shorty"-type romp without the character depth and wit. Read full review
50
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
Baldwin and Broderick each click in their roles and consistently rise above their material in every scene. But the movie around them falls flat and can't begin to sustain its premise. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
But there's no affection in this mean-spirited sendup of "the business" and nothing to mitigate its sour taste. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyTim Appelo
Appealingly cheesy, a tribute to the hope that springs eternal in the hopelessly inept. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverJean Oppenheimer
Most of it is decidedly lame. The actors, however, are ingratiating. Read full review
40
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Unfunny and instantly forgettable comedy. Read full review
40
The New York TimesDana Stevens
Laborious and logy when it should be madcap and effervescent. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Nathanson processes this pungent stew of greed, ambition and self-delusion into pablum so sweet and bland it wouldn't shock a convent-raised idealist. Read full review
40
Village VoiceLaura Sinagra
Planned inanity never gets mad mad mad mad enough. Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
There are some very funny passing lines, but the movie's too uneven to enjoy. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Never achieves liftoff. Read full review
25
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Cross "Get Shorty" with "State and Main" - Hollywood hustlers, colorful crooks, crafty poseurs, and a production crew on location - and you have the stuff of The Last Shot. One other thing: eliminate anything funny. Read full review
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