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One of my all time favorites.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Last Holiday (2006): Dir: Wayne Wang / Cast: Queen Latifah, L.L. Cool J., Timothy Hutton, Gerard Depardiau, Alicia Witt: Warm and delightful comedy about chances and living. Queen Latifah plays a cook who learns that she has only three weeks to live. She quits her job when her boss refuses to listen to reason, and decides to spend her savings doing everything she always wanted to do. This surprises the wealthy at the hotel she is staying at because of her nature. Setup works due to pacing but structure is formula and predictable. Conclusion demonstrates that happiness transpires from natural things that money cannot necessarily buy. An improvement for director Wayne Wang who previously made the awful Maid in Manhattan. Latifah holds strong playing off innocence as well as the willingness to excel without overshadowing others. L.L. Cool J. plays the standard potential boyfriend. Timothy Hutton plays the stereotypical rich snob who will get put in his place. The only supporting role that seems to elevate is Gerard Depardiau as the famous chef wooed by Latifah's love for food. And how about Alicia Witt as that snide spiteful bitch whom Latifah must give a lesson to on what life is like when you don't act like you're constantly on your period. Technically well made with great location work. Film suggests viewers to live life to the fullest as this is you last holiday. Score: 8 / 10

This is a good movie, and I enjoyed Queen Latifah in her starring role as a doomed (well, sort of) character on a final fling. She's a good actress! However, in my view, the film was missing something -- a spark -- the spark of romance. Yes, she and LL Cool J's characters love each other, but we see that in the beginning and end, and almost not at all throughout the main body of the film. I think that was a mistake. It's kinda difficult to have a love story without the two people who are in love being together much.On the other hand, Queen's character did not put Timothy Hutton's boss character down, as she could have, and as some directors and screenwriters would probably have wanted the character to do. But that would have been low class. And here, Queen's character is not low class. Good job director and screenwriter(s).There's little to criticize with the acting here. Not that it's stellar, but it is solid. As already mentioned, Queen does nicely. LL Cool J has matured as an actor since this film; he does okay here, but is not a stand out. Timothy Hutton does nicely as the "villain" here; plays it about right. I don't usually care much for Gérard Depardieu, but he does nicely here as the European chef. And, Alicia Witt does reasonably well as the love interest with Hutton.This could have been a much better film...and probably made a profit...had they played up the love interest more between Queen and LL. But, it is what it is, and I've watched it twice now and enjoyed it both times. A "7", but only barely.

Well I watched this movie because of its solid rating here on IMDb. And I couldn't be more disappointed. Corny and cheesy story, bad script, mediocre acting,... This is one of those no-brainer, chick flicks where you know right at the beginning every single twist and turn of the story. I don't know how they managed to pull a good actor like Gérard Depardieu into this.Well if you're a lonely housewife desperately looking for a predictable, corny love/comedy movie and you can't tell a good movie apart from a bad one than please, by all means, watch this. To everybody else: don't. It's a waste of time and money.

Last Holiday with Queen Latifah reminded me of Doris Day movies--even though the plot twists are more than a bit implausible, you let that slide because you enjoy seeing her reactions and you want things to work out right for her in the end.I especially enjoyed three moments in this film: 1. The Czech hotel bellman rushes up to Queen L and says something terrible has happened. She, being sarcastic, replies something like, "Mr. Kragen has jumped off the hotel roof? The bellman replies, "A pity, but no. He's still on the ledge."2. There's a montage of Queen L receiving various beauty treatments in the hotel spa while the background music is a slowed tempo version of West Side Story's "I Feel Pretty." At one point in the montage, a small spa employee starts beating the bare skin of Queen L with a large bouquet of some kind of green flowers or weeds. You see Queen L's pained reaction, then she takes the bouquet and starts whacking the spa attendant with it, then the spa attendant is shown saying something like, "With love. With love." and continues whacking Latifah with the bouquet but more gently.3. The ending sequence showing what happens to the main characters is hilarious.