The Last Supper
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Movie Reviews of The Last Supper
Movie Review: Dark Comedy about Free Speech
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is an interesting surprise...a movie about free speech in which 5 prototypical liberal graduate students embark on a mission to rid the world of ideologues with whom they disagree. One by one, they invite these unfortunate souls to their home for pasta, wine, and poison. As more and more guests are buried in the tomato garden in the back yard, the quintet becomes more bloodthirsty and anxious about the morality of their actions. When SNL veteran Nora Dunn appears as a police officer investigating the disappearance of their first victim, they become downright paranoid. Finally, they encounter a Rush Limbaugh-style radio talk show host who, in person, makes cogent arguments supporting the right of everyone to think and say whatever they will and the group is forced to consider the moral implications of what it is doing. The end of the movie is an entertaining resolution to this dilemma.The 5 housemates are all entertaining young actors, most notably Cameron Diaz and Annabeth Gish, and Nora Dunn is wonderful as the sheriff becoming increasingly suspicious of the bizarre actions of the housemates. But the real stars of this cast are the cameos by the guests/victims, including Bill Pullman, Jason Alexander, and Ron Perlman, who does an outstanding job as the arrogant shock jock who unwittingly calls the housemates' scheme into question by simply making good arguments about the right to free speech for all people.
This is not a deep film, and the stereotypes are drawn a bit thin in order to drive home the point, but it is an entertaining movie that should appeal to anyone who favors dark comedy and could be a good discussion starter over a glass of wine. Just make sure you drink from the safe carafe!
Movie Review: Black humor at it's best...
Summary: 3 Stars
I love the whole idea of the story (which is completely unrealistic) but found the story end wanting for something... Good nonetheless.Movie Review: Needed Alice Cooper to show up all pissed off!
Summary: 2 Stars
I love cheap movies on VHS. So I didn't have high hopes for this movie, and I wasn't dissapointed. Quick plot summary--a group of liberals who dine together invite a guest every week (or something like that) until they invite truck driver Bill Paxton. Being a right-winger, this guy starts a fight, is killed at the dinner table, and the merry group decides it's for the best and then comes up with an idea--why not continue the weekly dinners, invite those of the right-wing and then poison them. It's a good idea for a movie, and it has some potential philosophical questions, but you won't find much worth seeing here. The story is very standard and predictable. They kill "undesireables" until some of them start experiencing guilt and suddenly we are thrown into a Dostoyevsky-like senario much like "Crime and Punishment."
But unlike Dostoyevsky, there is no moment of truth. Instead the group finds it's one last victim, this guy who is like Rush Limbaugh, and decides to provide a great service to humanity by killing this hate monger. I'll leave it there. Fact is, all the characters are pretty one dimensional, and their developement is very base. None of them are in the least bit likeable or interesting, and really, I watched this hoping something interesting would happen, like Alice Cooper shows up all pissed off or something. Every time the movie tries to get some deep point across, it just comes off of trivial and lame. I did like Bill paxton, and I read one review in which I totally agree with--watch the first 10 minutes with Paxton, then shut it off. Annabeth Gish was good, too, but I always like her in whatever she does.
I gave this movie 2 stars because it is watchable, it's just not very good and I wont be watching it ever again. If you got nothing else to watch, go ahead and give it a try, it's worth your time, but you wont be bragging about it the next day.
Movie Review: What if...
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm thinking, "What if I didn't waste time watching this trash, disguised as entertainment?" Would I have done something more productive? I think, yes. Even if I spent the entire time banging my head against the wall for the whole time, it would have been a far better endeavor than watching this trash.While ultimately this film tries to make you think about tolerating the opinion of the next person, it conducts its' lesson by creating conservative stereotypes as manifested by left-wingers. So if the roles had been reversed, liberals would be screaming about this film years later. But since the Hollywood community is controlled by left-wingers, you don't hear a peep out of anyone in that industry about the horrible personalities created by this film.
The sad thing is that the characters created in this film are really how Hollywood sees conservatives. Left-wingers actually create these people and truly believe that this is the way conservatives think and act. Of course, conservatives don't think and act as depicted in this film but left-wingers don't understand this point. This is the main reason why liberalism is a dying idealogy in the U.S. It's an idealogy that just doesn't get it. It creates enemies that don't exist and in fighting these imaginary enemies, their real opponents walk away the victor.
This might have been a good film if the "conservatives" in the film were real. That their opinions were those of real conservatives. But the problem would have been that the liberal characters would have been seen in a far worse light than just murderers; they would have been seen as irrational lunatics that can't see reason. And that's not what the director was trying to show. The idea was to show liberals as being well-intentioned yet mistaken in their methods.
If they had done the film correctly, conservatives would be invited to supper, they would have explained real-world thinking to the liberals, and the liberals would have killed the conservatives simply because they could not grasp what mainstream America already embraces as its' philosophy. But, again, this would have taken the film in too far of a supportive perspective of conservatives and that's certainly not acceptable to the producers of this poorly conceived tripe.
Movie Review: See For Bill Paxton
Summary: 1 Stars
Watch the first twenty minutes while Bill Paxton is in it and then turn it off. This is an awful film. Some of the worst acting I have ever seen. Paxton's scene is the only thing worth seeing where this film is concerned.