Last Vegas

If I was a director, I’d rather shoot nothing than these harmless banal flicks blatantly advocating positive values, which would end up with a “TV film” label if it wasn’t for the expensive cast. The four acting aces are of course super likable, but the story’s too lame for words. (01/16/2014)

I love these types of movies when it’s painfully obvious that the American filmmaking elite has only made a movie to spend some of the excess dollars in their budgets by the end of the year that they’ve got left from making other movies. Nothing happens in the movie at all. Some ace actors get together to play blackjack in Vegas, they drink some twelve-year-old Tullamore Dew and suddenly the end credits start rolling, everyone gets up and goes to their families. (11/28/2016)

Having four Oscar-winning aces in one film doesn't necessarily mean that it will be a success, because even a perfectly cast film can always fail on a dull and uninteresting script, which is exactly the case with Last Vegas, which despite the presence of those renowned actors failed to engage and entertain me enough to give it a decent rating. And when the genre is supposed to be a comedy that doesn't even make you laugh enough, something must really be wrong, which is a shame for a film with such acting potential. A film that gambled on a sure thing, and in the end it pretty much blew it (02/12/2014)

It's terribly cliché, terribly predictable, but I still can't help it, these movies where they take a slightly detached view of old age just work for me. Moreover, with this amazing cast, when I didn't even realize Kevin Kline is close to seventy, I was simply thrilled. I laughed, I enjoyed myself, a pleasant evening spent. Nothing much more, but sometimes even this is enough. (03/19/2014)