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| ACTORS: | Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Walter Hill |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 20 September, 1996 |
| MANUFACTURER: | New Line Home Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Black & White, Widescreen, Dolby |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-action/Adventure |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 794043450723 |
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Tongue-in-cheek humor, blood-on-walls mayhem Walter Hill's remake of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" (and Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars") is a thoroughly ridiculous and improbably enjoyable gangster melodrama set in 1930s Texas. Bruce Willis plays a mysterious stranger who's caught between rival gangs of bootleggers in a flyspeck border town. He plays both sides against each other, with predictably violent results. Very much like Hill's under-rated "Streets of Fire," a rock-and-roll sci-fi action-adventure musical, "Last Man Standing" is set in an alternative universe where the language consists mainly of B-movie cliches and the entire population seems to be culled from Central Casting. Everything is synthetic, everyone is an archetype, and the plot has the contrived inevitability of Greek tragedy as played by Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney. (Willis actually sports the same hair-do Bogart had in "High Sierra.") This is the sort of thing that, when done too solemnly, can be a tediously self-conscious bore. But Hill takes great care to infuse the material with tongue-in-cheek humor as well as blood-on-walls mayhem
I love it to death.
This has to be one of the best action, western and gangster movies I've ever seen. Willis was perfect for the part of John Smith (his voice-over has some of the best dialogue ever and if you don't believe me check out the opening scene), a gun for hire without a conscience. All elements of each genre are highly spoken for.
The editing, dialogue, cinematography, music, direction and acting are all top class. Everything is fantastically overblown but never preposterous.
As for the film itself, it is very empty but the mood and tone are so very distant and weird, and I totally love it. Walter Hills direction is a well balanced cross between Sam Peckinpah and John Woo. And Cooder's score will transport you right into the movie even on it's own. This wall always be one of my fave movies and it is very much worthy of 5 stars.
The 2.50:1 anamorphic picture is stunning and there are rumors that Hill originally wanted to make it in B/W but New Line Cinema would not let him. To test this out turn your color right down and see how much the film's atmosphere is enhanced from already gloomy to undeniably depressing, BUT IT IS SO COOL.
The DD 5.1 sound quality on this DVD during the gunfights is absolutely amazing. It will bug the hell out of your neighbors, but who cares? Every now and again Walter Hill injects a sudden burst of ferocious, furious and brutal violence that takes your breath away. When people are killed they don't just fall down, they FLY across the room and thru windows.
Extras are brief and not very good (Cast Bios say that Die Hard 4 was released in 1998!) and there is a cool clip of Loaded Weapon 1 hidden in there too.
a good story... poorly done
I wish to keep this short, so I'll only say this: I liked this movie better the first time-- when it was called 'A Fistfull of Dollars'.