Finding the all-important Achilles heel is the central focus of The Last Time, a routine office drama with a love triangle that unexpectedly turns into a biting character study.
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11/26/07
The Last Time (2006)
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Reviews Counted:17
Fresh:6
Rotten:11
Average Rating:4.6/10
Synopsis: Brendan Fraser, Michael Keaton, and Amber Valetta star in this drama about a bitter salesman (Keaton) who finds his polar opposite in his bright young business partner (Brendan Fraser). But after... [More]
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Michael Keaton, Amber Valletta, Daniel Stern
Director: Michael Caleo
Reviews for The Last Time
1 - 19 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticLove LaBute? Mad for Mamet? Well, let me introduce you to Michael Caleo.
08/27/08
A melodramatic disaster.
08/10/07
Seemingly developed at the David Mamet Institute for Twist-Laden Salesmen Dramas.
08/06/07
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07/21/07
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07/21/07
Top CriticNo review available.
07/21/07
Top CriticWildly entertaining ... Skillfully walks a fine line between black comedy and intense drama ... It's one of the year's best.
07/05/07
A clever and twisty calling card for filmmaker Michael Caleo.
05/21/07
If this isn't the most irritating film I've seen this year, it's close. No, I take that back. It is the most irritating film I've seen all year.
05/20/07
A little bit nutty and pretty entertaining in a thoroughly unconvincing way. And watch out for that 11th-hour twist -- it's a head snapper.
05/18/07
It alternates between bleak cynicism and a genuinely romantic sensibility, and this unusual combination makes the movie a great vehicle for Keaton and Valletta, and a compelling drama for the audience.
05/18/07
[Writer-director] Caleo isn't able to sell The Last Time -- not the affair and especially not the ludicrous twist ending.
05/18/07
Feels like a script that was written backwards, as if the twist ending occurred to [writer-director] Caleo first and he then filled out a story to get to it. Fair enough, except getting there in this case is just no fun.
05/18/07
Strives for contemporary noir in tone but feels closer to an ineffective parody of James M. Cain filtered through faux David Mamet dialogue.
05/18/07
Top Criticexists to pad the resume of everyone whose name appears in the credits.
05/18/07
While his cast is first-rate, director-writer Michael Caleo doesn't know quite what his movie is about.
05/17/07
For all the good work that went into it, the movie is as phony as a game of three-card monte.
05/16/07
Akin to hip-hop culture's misappropriation of Scarface as a tale of gangsta empowerment, writer-director Michael Caleo crudely latches onto the surface misanthropy of David Mamet's work to fuel his forgettable first feature.
05/15/07
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