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The Last Outlaw

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4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

If you like Westerns even a little, then you will LOVE this film. I'm not a Mickey Rourke fan, but he's good here and the rest of the cast is absolutely outstanding- Steve Buscemi, Dermont Mulruney, etc.

I bought this movie about 7 years ago and I still think it is one of the best westerns. Mickey Rourke is excellent (as usual) and so is the rest of the cast. I especially like the scenery and the way the movie shows us a dirty, dusty trail that makes it more enjoyable than watching a bunch of guys riding around the country in CLEAN clothes. That just is not as believeable since you cannot possibly stay clean in that environement.
It is somewhat violent but again that adds to the realism. I have the VHS tape and just bought a DVD to upgrade.
ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!

HEY, BR>SET IT UP SO PEOPLE CAN VOTE TO GET THIS MOVIE PRODUCED ON DVD!!
THIS IS A HARDCORE WESTERN, IT ROCKS! HARDCORE VIOLENCE, AWESOME DIRECTING. RELEASE IT ON DVD!! VHS IS TERRIBLE.
PETE

This movie easily stands beside others made in the last 30 years, it's on my shelf beside Silverado and Unforgiven. Mickey Rourke is awesome as a villain and most of us can see a little of ourselves in Dermot Mulroney. His quest for redemption can be lost in the incredible action, but you'll watch this movie again and again.

No, by spaghetti western, I don't mean the zany ones. I mean the brutal, dirty ones that introduced America to a revisionist west that was uglier than the Zane Gray fantasies, such as the Django series, Lee Van Clief's movies, and the Leone films that started it all.

Mickey Rourke is effective as a sadistic, almost reptilian leader of a gang of ex-confederate raiders-turned-bank robbers. When his brutality goes too far even for his own gang to stomache, he is shot and left for dead. A posse hunting the gang finds him and is about to execute him when he makes a deal with them to track down his own gang, much against the better judgement of the sheriff who thinks it a bargain with the devil. The sheriff's reservations about the deal prove to be well-founded; As Rourke's character helps to track down and murder his ex-fellows one at a time, he slowly starts to gain control of the weak-minded members of the posse until, by the climax of the film, they have killed off the reputable members of the posse and in effect become his new gang.

The film maintains a good, steady pace with no distracting sub-plots to slow the story. Violent and un-sentimental, this movie may not be for everyone. One interesting character is a black ex-confederate soldier/gang member (yes, the south had their own black soldiers even though hollywood wouldn't want you to know that). Though the PC crowd might find this character's voodoo predictions as steretypical, bear in mind that southerners were (and still are) superstitious in general, and in the film, the other gang members hang on this character's every prediction as meaningful.

This was a made-for-HBO production filmed around 1990, but the picture quality is unusually sharp, more so than most new movies on DVD today as it appears to have been published in ED or "Enhanced Definition". Though not as sharp as HD, it is a way to fit more visual information onto the disc while maintaining the regular DVD format so it will play on any DVD player. If a lesser known feature such as this can be put out in ED, why can't they make all DVDs this way, especially some of these big-budget features they hype about so much?

At any rate, this is one of my all-time favorite westerns, and I'm glad to see that in this one instance, the studio did it justice.

The Last Outlaw is a must-see for Rourke, Buscemi and Mulroney fans. They all play the perfect outlaws, cold-hearted yet very sensitive. This post-civil war TV western works very well from beggining to end. Great script, art direction, acting and pacing. A relentless chase in the middle of nowhere which will keep you wondering what's going to happen next.

I saw the movie years ago, and I thought about it a while back and looked it up on Amazon, and to my suprise, they had it. It was just like it was years ago. A very good modern day production western. Lord, I wish that they would make more of them. Where is Clint Eastwood and James Arness when you need them?

Somewhat gruesome, but so life like. My favourite western movie, it offers everything, the costumes, the settings, the story and awesome attention to details. To me it rates right along with other movies... 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Dr Chivago.'

This is the best damn western ever! I swear the plot is one that will keep you guessing and intrigue you. The outline:
A band of bank robbers pull off a heist not exactly as planned. The outlaws quickly blame their leader and shoot him believing this to be his demise. Yet he awakes in the hands of the very posse hunting him down and strikes a deal with them, help hunt his former gang down.
Slowly he picks off the members one by one until what used to be a "lieutenant" kills him with a very good cliche. Over all I give this all 5 stars, it deserves it!

This is a damn good movie. The story's awesome and Rourke's character is a badass. It drags in some spots, but overall this is probably the coolest western since TOMBSTONE. The stylized direction by Geoff Murphy(YOUNG GUNS 2) is real effective. Check this one out.