I caught this movie last night on TCM Middle East and I don't have a lot of access to older movies (which is about all I watch on TV), so for me to watch any movie means I had an interest in it. My interest was of course George C Scott. All in all, I was not to impressed by this turkey. The whole thing with him being a burned out getaway driver has to be spelled out to us, and there is no build up of his wife leaving him or of him pulling his last big job before he goes into retirement. I ask all the people who seem to love this film, wouldn't that have made this a better film? Of course that would have meant a bigger budget which this film is sadly lacking. Yeah the scenery was very pretty, and it was very cheap to film too I'm sure. But you know this is a movie about a getaway driver and the premise is that the deal goes bad, so it's supposed to be an ACTION film, not a PBS travel log. It's characters are pretty much forgettable and we are forced to endure Scott drive around in very long boring scenes that lack any realistic action (or any action!). Add on top of it all a spaghetti western soundtrack and its getting almost unwatchable. As a matter of fact if I was in the states I would have turned it off but like I said I'm in the desert without much stuff to watch thats old so I stayed with it just to see the lame ending. Another reviewer made some comment about Scott crashing the car, and that signified Scott's death as well. Boy I must be on a different plain because when I watched this I didn't even think about that, and I doubt the director did either. Scott wasn't driving the car anyway. One personal note, Scott has his shirt off through part of this film and I noticed he doesn't look too fit. I also thought about how my chest looks since I'm about his age in this film, and I realized I'm probably not the stud I think I am. When you are watching a film thinking about stuff like that it means the films very boring, El Stinko.
Review of The Last Run
