The Last Supper
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Movie Reviews of The Last Supper
Movie Review: The Last Supper
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent movie with a wonderful reversal at the end. Good for its sociopolitical rammificationsMovie Review: A Sinister Superiority Complex
Summary: 4 Stars
Have you ever wondered what hardcore liberals dream of doing to their right-wing adversaries? In "The Last Supper," the audience gets to see just that. Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard and Annabeth Gish head up a quintet of superior-minded liberals who quickly gain a taste for murder after helping out a right-wing nutjob (Bill Paxton).
When Paxton goes too far at the supper table, it costs him his life. This sets into motion a string of murders by the five like-minded friends. They invite right-wing enemies to their supper table and throw questions at them in order to determine whether the conservative lives or dies.
As the bodies pile up, the lust for blood grows stronger in some members of the group. The local sheriff (a solid Nora Dunn) is also growing suspicious of the group and the wonderful tomatoes that begin to grow in their back yard.
Soon enough, the group encounters the holy grail of all conservatism, a loudmouthed Rush Limbaugh-type character played to perfection by Ron Perlman. When he proves to be a strong adversary, the group unravels and begins to argue with itself about whether or not Perlman should live or die.
In the end, though, Perlman's fate is determined. Does he live or die? You'll have to watch this dark comedy to find out.
The strongest performances in "The Last Supper" come via Perlman and Courtney B. Vance, who plays one of the loftiest of the five murderers. Gish and Eldard are exceptionally over-the-top in their performances, actually weakening the film a bit.
Overall, this film takes no sides in the political arena. Sure leftist loonies appear to have the upper hand throughout, but conservatives get a few punches in too.
I recommend this film to liberals so that they can live out some of their wildest fantasies. Extreme right-wingers are given their just desserts. I also recommend this film to conservatives because it gives a hilarious look into the lives lefties who believe they know what's best for everyone but, when given a strong adversary, fall all to pieces and actually turn on one another.
Movie Review: great little film
Summary: 4 Stars
To express it in non-American political terms:
The movie revolves around 1990s students who, being middle-class with some conscience, agonize and cannot decide if they are good liberals or genuine leftists. By killing people who express morally and socially repressive views, they think that they have found a solution. Nevertheless, they are firmly stuck within the ideology of individualism (hence, the initial naive, or even stupid premise that if you eliminated Hitler, fascism would not have come about).
Finally, they are tricked and killed by a wily demagogue who, being himself a liberal in the 19th c sense (ie he does not advocate monarchy and accepts the trappings of a liberal democracy such as parliaments and elections), poses the same question that has crippled the US left for most of the century: free speech (notably, the movie does not problematize big media -- it's all an individual choice, right?).
You could argue the Clintonite intelligentsia lefty-liberal students get what they deserve from a fellow liberal on the rightist side of the spectrum. This is what makes the movie so amusing and appealing to all kinds of American liberals, whether on the left or on the right: is it a tragedy, a comedy or a farce?
We'll see the next round of this game in 2008, folks...and it won't be for the better of most of us, especially for the conservative pinkoes among us.
Movie Review: A good movie I never remember hearing about
Summary: 4 Stars
I rented this movie and was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed it. The story was demented and there were a few laughs, mostly as the groups victims argued their opposing positions, not knowing they were literaly debating for their lives. "A toast..." *thud* The cast was excellent - Courtney B. Vance and Nora Dunn both get big thumbs up, while Ron Eldard's whining got on my nerves towards the (surprise) end. All in all, a pretty good movie.
Movie Review: An amusing, political, and macabre film about young adults
Summary: 3 Stars
The Last Supper (1995) is a Cognac's Police Festival prizewinner
with a story that is realistic, portraying the politicized minds of
some college and graduate-school aged individuals - not paying
taxes, and not having to answer to a boss - their only concern
being of a single feeling, thought and opinion, collectively in
agreement about various news of the day.
With enormous time on their hands, and pleasure in discussing their
studies and hobbies, the 5 individuals get together weekly, and at
one point, decide to become political vigilantes, or judge, jury and
executioners of guests invited over for dinner, officially hoping
the latter are amenable in changing their political stances over
the course of a meal.
The film is wide-screen, with some pop music mixed in between, the
story well edited, and laid out, reminiscent somewhat of Stephen
King's novels. This is the case from the horror mixed into the main
story, and given a lackadaisical treatment.
Interestingly, the political clique's original appraoch of patience,
and a fair and balanced approach to the dinner guests morphes into a
pedal-to-the-metal expediency in purging the town from some of its
most outspoken citizens, proponents of traditional values.
They are all-American individuals, played by Cameron Diaz, Ron
Eldard, Annabeth Gish, Jonathan Penner, Courtney Vance, Bill
Paxton and Jonathan Penner, with a fine acting, often amusing,
charming even, while at the same time, mature and serious as a
litany of discussions ensue weighing in on the face of their guests.
Some issues covered by guests are as patriotism, the military,
taxation, the costs of leadership, the HIV virus and the community
most affected, euthanasia, misogyny and chauvinism, abortion,
America's Baptist, Evangelical and Protestant churches,
homelessness, Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution, global warming,
species in danger of extinction, mensa, birth control, family
values, sex education in schools, scripture, etc.
The clan later unknowingly submits to a test of character and
objectivity in face of a tele-evangelist met at an airport, who they
considered their nemesis. Hearing his ideas and businessman
explanations, the group try hard to restrain their subjective and
pre-conceived ideas based on earlier TV programming watched, and
their pavlovian reactions.
In the meantime, the town's law enforcement conducts an
investigation over a number of disappearances in the area, while
strife and rifts open up between members, as more and more guests
are accepted.
In sum, the film may be underestimated in its simplicity, TV actors
and macabre running theme, but this film definitely deserves to be
seen. It's a wake up call in some ways to political awareness by
those who often can't wrap their minds around political stories in
the media, or ignore those.