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The Last Minute [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
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dislikeable
Review date: 2006-08-27 Rating: 2 out of 10
I only watched the 25 minutes of this film. That was enough. The film apparently tries very hard to be clever and funny and it fails on both counts. At least two of the scenes in the first 25 minutes I found offensive, if not obscene. I found it quite dislikeable, and I give it one star since that is the minimum the server will accept.
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Reviews
The best "Brit flick" ever
Review date: 2003-09-02 Rating: 10 out of 10
Stephen Norrington, director of Blade and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, made this little beauty sandwiched inbetween his pair of Hollywood offerings. It's a film about the nature of fame and stardom - about how you can become an overnight success and then just as easily an overnight failure and your life can fall apart. It's a surreal journey through the underbelly of a darkly comic London, packed with hysterically comical imagery and fast-draw snappy dialogue... far superior in every way (in my opinion) to the London-based movies conjured up by the vastly overrated Guy Ritchie. Excellent turns from Tom Bell, Jason Isaacs and Max Beesley as Billy Byrne, the central character who has it all and then loses everything in the space of a couple of days, make this film a joy to watch. The kicking soundtrack features a whole host of electronic artists from Aphex Twin to Leftfield (the soundtrack CD comes free with the DVD - nice idea and greatly appreciated) that add to the atmosphere of what is definitely the best Brit flick I've seen. The look and feel of the film belies its low budget, and there's so much strangeness going on that this is a film you can return to again and again and find something you missed before each time. I really can't say enough good things about this film. It's hard to pidgeon-hole this movie, it's part Naked Lunch, part Oliver Twist, part Trainspotting.... yet it's none of them. It's just The Last Minute and it's great!
The disc is excellent too, packed full of behind the scenes info, 3 music videos, 2 commentaries, a rocking 5.1 soundtrack and anamorphic 2.35:1 video that's pin sharp, and a free CD of the soundtrack thrown in to boot. Grab it while you can
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Emily Corrie
Tom Bell
Jason Isaacs
Max Beesley
Ciarán McMenamin
Creators:
Max Beesley (Primary Contributor)
Emily Corrie (Primary Contributor)
James Welland (Cinematographer)
Stephen Norrington (Producer)
Stephen Norrington (Writer)
Chris Blackwell (Producer)
Hooman Majd (Producer)
Matthew Justice (Producer)
Peter Frankfurt (Producer)
Director(s):
Recording label: Palm Pictures
Manufacturer: Palm Pictures
EAN: 0660200304928
Binding: DVD
Format: NTSC,
Release date: 2004-10-19
Universal product code (UPC): 660200304928
Region code: 1
Running time: 104 minutes
Theatrical release date: 2002
Language: English (Original Language)