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 Last Man Standing (DVD)
 Last Man Standing (DVD) ... DVD released 27 September, 1999 at Entertainment in Video / Features of the DVD: PAL, Widescreen / Best known for making movies about men and violence, director Walter Hill scored a misfire with this ambitious but ultimately dreary remake of Akira Kurosawa's samurai classic Yojimbo. The story's essentially the same but the setting has been switched to a dusty, almost ghostly Texas town in the 1930s, where two rival Chicago gangs are locked in an uneasy truce. Bruce Willis plays the lone drifter who allies himself with both gangs to his own advantage, working both sides against each other according to his own hidden agenda. The violence escalates to a bloody climax, of course, with Christopher Walken, David Patrick Kelly and Michael Imperioli as trigger-happy lieutenants in a lonely, desolate war. Fans of gangster movies will want to see this, and, if nothing else, Hill has brought his polished style to a vaguely mythic story. It's far from being a classic, however, and although its action is at times masterfully choreographed, the movie's humourless attitude is unexpectedly oppressive. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.comNewest Review: ... himself caught up in the middle of two gangs as the Irish and the Italians fight to control the town in the 1930s Prohibition ... more ... era. Seeing the chance to earn his way as a gun for hire, he plays the two gangs off, but soon his honour and morals start to get the better of him.
What Walter Hill does well here is lend a little mood to the film, and he has shown this before in his previous films, creating a bit of a gang influence as he did in The Warriors. He uses Willis' hard man image to good effect as he sends him round the town, strangely devoid of the nice people due to the two gangs, and Willis conforms to his director's wishes. However, t...more |
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Last Man Standing [DVD] [1996]
Best known for making movies about men and violence, director Wal ... Last Update 25.12.2009 05:45
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Last Man Standing (DVD): The remake of the remake of the remake for Bruce Willis (482 words)
by - written on 10/12/08 (Very useful, 44 readings)
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In a clever twist of a well known remake, director Walter Hill gives A Fistful Of Dollars (itself a remake of a Japanese film) a gangster theme by pitting Bruce Willis as John Smith, the equivalent man with no name, against two different warring factions in an attempt to play them off against each other and become the last man standing. The direction is fierce as is the gunplay, but for some reason the film never really took off with the critics or the public. John Smith (Bruce Willis), a gun for hire, wanders into the town of Jericho, and finds himself caught up in the middle of two gangs as the Irish and the Italians fight to control the town in the 1930s ... Read the complete review
Entertaining Film, not as good as the original (709 words)
by - written on 10/03/06 (Very useful, 96 readings)
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Technical Details: Actors: Bruce Willis ; Christopher Walken ; Alexandra Powers ; David Patrick Kelly ; Katrina Lombard ; Bruce Dern ; William Sanderson ; Michael Imperioli ; R.D. Call Director: Walter Hill Certificate: 18 years and over Year: 1996 Duration: 1 hour and 36 minutes (approx) About the Film: Ok, this is an entertaining Gangster Film. This is a remake of the old spaghetti western starring Clint Eastwood called "A Fistfull of Dollars" and although not as good as the original is definetly worth watching. The basic story is that Bruce Willis comes ... Read the complete review
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