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Last Man Standing

1996

Walter Hill

Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Bruce Dern, William Sanderson ...

5.9

7,255

Action. Drama. Thriller John Smith is an amoral gunslinger in the days of Prohibition. On the lam from his latest (unspecified) exploits, he happens upon the town of Jericho, Texas. Actually, calling Jericho a town would be too generous--it has become more like a ghost town, since two warring gangs have 'driven off all the decent folk.' Smith sees this as an opportunity to play both sides off against each other, earning himself a nice piece of change as a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[It] is such a desperately cheerless film, so dry and laconic and wrung out, that you wonder if the filmmakers ever thought that in any way it could be ... fun (…) Rating: ★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Time Out	"As a thriller, the film tries to camouflage its lack of suspense with profligate and repetitive gunplay and a deafening barrage of noise"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[Hill] tries to approximate the comic tone of his predecessors with noirish narration and dialogue. Willis, to his credit, gets into it"	POS
United States	David Stratton Variety	"Bruce Willis’ one-note performance and the monotonous plotting doom this New Line venture"	NEG

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