Product Details

• Actors: Armand Assante, Norman Austin, Niki Barabás, Lukács Bicskey, Annabel Brooks
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: First Look Pictures
• DVD Release Date: December 3, 2002
• Run Time: 98 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006SFK4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #72,526 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Last Run" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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5.0 out of 5 stars cinematic allegory of redemption, October 9, 2007

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Robert Williams - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Last Run (DVD)

It is simply incredible that this amazing film has not already been reviewed. The plot is ostensibly that of a cloak-&-dagger adventure set in beutiful central Europe (as a lesson in location scouting it is peerless). At first blush the story is that of Frank Banner (Assante) who runs a covert extraction team which gets blown spies and defectors out of the Soviet Union. The STUNNING opening sequence -- 10 minutes -- is set in Soviet Ukraine, Kiev, about 1989. But after a wonderful main title sequence the action resumes about 10 years later as "Banner" is given the task of whispering his former Soviet nemesis out of democratic Russia to Germany. The two men develop a unique bond; but this is just where the film takes on its allegorical dimension and becomes a study of man's need for redemption. We all want to make the world better, but what do any of us actually do to achieve that? Assante's closing solliloquy, as he meditates over the memoirs which his self-sacrificed package has bequeathed to him, is as thought provoking as anything in Shakespeare's Hamlet. What would the Russian have done with those documents if he had lived? Who did he think Banner would give them to? Why didn't he just do that himself & save a lot of people a lot of work (and his own life)? It doesn't matter. This is an allegory. It is a film about the sacrifices we must make to do the right thing. It is above all a film that states that the right thing IS worth doing.

Assante gives a stellar performance, ably seconded by a largely European cast which includes Jurgen Prochnow & Ornella Muti. This is a treasure for cinemaphiles and fans of the intrigue genre who can debate its real meaning endlessly. It is a symbolic allegory; thus for every viewer it has a slightly different meaning. But we can all agree that the film is a rare treasure.

P.S. This fast paced film is brilliantly photographed, and features a quirky song for which director Anthony Hickox wrote the lyric. Just buy it now while you can get it.

5.0 out of 5 stars taut and persuasive thriller, March 28, 2011

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Beth E. Williams "miguels girl" (south new jersey) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Last Run (DVD)

Although I am slowly working my way through all the Armand Assante films I can find (aside from the horror ones as I have no stomach for that genre), I thought I would address this film first, as it has only one feedback so far. That is a shame; in most of his recent work he often has smaller parts, and one could be forgiven if they wondered what he he can do when he has to carry a film. Well, this is it; tightly paced, sharp dialogue, incredibly fine acting from everyone involved, it is still Mr.Assante's film, his nuanced narrative, sometimes brusque, sometimes whispered in a spasm of bitterness or pain, which we hear at the beginning and at the end, is as close to intelligently emotive phrasing as we are likely to get in film.

Find this film, now, you will wish there were 20 more like this.