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Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

I have always felt this was Nick Cage's best performance. We watched this today (2018) with a forgiving eye as we expected the movie to not really hold up after all these years. Although some of the film showed it's age, it held up just fine. Liz Shue was terrific. This really stands alone for us as a classic sleeper movie. I can see us watching it again in 5 years and still enjoying it.

I sat on writing this review for a few weeks, the reason being my initial reaction to the movie was just "WOW". So I had to synthesize something more useful, right? Well that probably won't crystallize exceptionally well, but here it is. After lurking for almost a decade and the boards being shut closed, this is the time and the movie I HAD to write my first review about.The movie is shot on 16mm film instead of 35mm for budget reason, but oh Lord, is there anything to suggest so. What a beautiful piece of cinema making. None of the pretentious bullshit, just brilliant art, angles and lens play.I dislike using clichés, but what a quintessential emotional roller coaster. People describe me as one that rarely shows emotion, so when a movie tears me up at least three times and throws me into bursts of laughter in between, I consider that a magnificent piece of art.Other reviewers go out to say the movie should not be looked at as an entertainment, given that it is a sad movie. And oh man, is it sad. But I beg to differ on the former. I never lost interest in it for a second. And by God, Nicholas Cage is a god of acting and I will be forever adamant about that.The way the movie toys with your emotions, the abrupt halt of the culmination pool scene, the way it was structured post that... just superb. I believe this film drove a large portion of alcohol abusers to sobriety. I really do. I feel it's that influential. It bears such great metaphors about the people who care about you, but your first and true love remains the bottle. The smallest of nitpicks I had was her unreasonable interest she developed for him, but sometimes you find somebody as broken as you and something magical entails.I was afraid to see the ending. And I was given good reasons to. And deep down I knew, but I was at peace with it.If by some miracle, somebody interested in the movie is reading this, I hope I am not ruining it for you and I gotta tell you this. It's a sad movie. But a sad movie you MUST see.Elisabeth Shue gets naked.

Leaving Las Vegas came out (1995) I gave it 7/10 for its efforts off showing how alcohol can damage lives and careers in this 1hr 51min | Drama, and Romance with a few Oscars nomination and win in this indie film. I think the success of Ben career as screen writer and probably all the parties got to much for his character life. this is nick 2nd film set in Las Vegas with con air been the other Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera Director:Mike Figgis directed an award winning film for 2 characters who acted out their skin but nick didn't deserve Elizabeth did deserved for her emotion to her character it won a best actor Oscar Nicolas Cage ...Ben Sanderson / but he should not have won I would have gave it to Anthony Hopkins for Nixon or Sean Penn for dead man walking Elisabeth Shue ...Sera Because his wife left him and took his son with her, screenwriter Ben Sanderson has started drinking, a lot. He's getting more and more isolated and he troubles women in bars because he wants to have s*x with them. When he gets fired, he decides to leave everything behind and move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death where the bars never close . In Las Vegas he meets Sera, a prostitute with some problems as well who he moves in with.an extraordinary love affair develops and vows never to ask him to stop drinking she breaks vow which is very heart breaking and he leaves Not unlike John Huston's Under The Volcano, Leaving Las Vegas borrows from Greek mythology, obliquely mirroring the tragedy and pathos of Orpheus' failed attempt to rescue his dead wife, Eurydice, from Hades. Mike Figgis obliges us with a helpful hint in the scene where Nicolas Cage gives Elizabeth Shue a present of earrings: Greek cameos.As in the ancient tale, love challenges the inevitability of death, although, in the case of LLV, roles are upended and sometimes blurred, and Orphean references are either thinly disguised, or non-specific to the point of being thoroughly sublimated. Academic, to be sure, but completely acceptable as long as LLV can sustain itself and remain engaging. And it surely does, thanks to Figgis' intelligent script and direction, Cage's role as a down-and-out writer and his protracted self-destruction, and Shue's portrayal of a lonely hooker, lifting that old bromide beyond what could have been routine, since .With all that said, this film is not for everyone (in particular those who only respond to gratuitous sex, car chases, and mindless pyrotechnics). The lurid depictions of despair, self-loathing, and violence could put off even the most hardened social worker. In my mind's eye, I could see psychiatrists amongst the theater audiences, furiously jotting down their observations. Understandable; the two principal characters are, in the common parlance, screwed up. One cannot cope with failure, so decides to opt out, while the other does cope, but only barely, existing along the ragged edges of what passes for society in Nevada Hell. These details, though, tend to outline and, indeed, strengthen the true heart of this film: Sacrifice and Unconditional Love.this is my 184 review

An alcoholic writer who has travelled to Vegas to drink himself to death befriends a lonely prostitute who falls in love with him in this unusual romantic drama. With atmospheric aerial shots of the neon lights of Vegas, melancholic background songs and nifty slow motion shots, 'Leaving Las Vegas' works very well as a mood piece of sorts. Lead actor Nicolas Cage lets his character's desperation shine magnificently through as well as his acceptance of the fate he has planned for himself, finding himself "at ease" with his situation to use his own words. Elisabeth Shue also has her fair share of strong moments too, especially as she finds herself scorned by motel proprietors and young clients who look down upon her alike. The connection between Cage and Shue never really clicks though. Certainly, she seems to like him a lot (though why remains a mystery for the most part) but he only seems to find solace in her every now and again. He is in fact so inebriated throughout that it is hard to see him as a character in love, or even potentially in love. The film feels very long at nearly two hours as too as the only factor really driving the film is the pair's up and down relationship and Shue's struggle to make enough money to support them both. 'Leaving Las Vegas' is, however, still a very powerful experience even if one does not quite buy the romance. The mood of the film, as mentioned, is absolutely unshakable and there is something quite interesting in how calm and at peace Cage seems to be after making the firm decision to drink himself to death.