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Very disappointing...

Such a frustrating disappointment

Best movie ever!

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

The Last Movie (1971)* 1/2 (out of 4)If you knew nothing about THE LAST MOVIE and you just started watching it, it's highly unlikely by the time it was over you'd know what it was about. The film is an incoherent mess but apparently it was supposed to be about an extra (Dennis Hopper) filming a movie in Peru. After the movie wrapped the extra stays behind and falls in love with a local girl. This here leads to a land development deal as well as a group of local Indians using the movie sets to try and film a movie not knowing that movies are fake.Say what? Hopper was on the highest of highs in Hollywood after the smashing success of EASY RIDER so he went to Peru to film this movie and it pretty much became a disaster. The drugs, the confusion, the fights and everything else that was going on pretty much ended Hopper's career as a director and the film was a financial disaster. Even to this day it's pretty hard to find unless you know where to pick up bootlegs. Is THE LAST MOVIE one of the worst films ever made? Technically speak it probably is.For my money Roger Ebert's review of this is spot on. In it he talks about how films can be saved by the editor who can usually find enough material to make a story make sense. That's certainly not the case here. Apparently Hopper can back with hours upon hours worth of footage but as I said in my opening paragraph, if you didn't know what the film was about you certainly wouldn't be able to figure it out watching the movie. Nothing in it makes a bit of sense and scenes just happen for no reason and they end without a resolution. There are moments where the screen fades to all black and we just hear the dialogue. There are moments where "scene missing" appears and then there are scenes that appear to be out of place with the rest of the story.A non-linear movie? That's what the supporters will tell you. If someone is able to watch this film and take something away from it, more power to them. I personally found this to be an incredibly bad movie and a film that's story is so bad with what material we're seeing that you can't help but call it technically awful. With that said, there's some entertainment value to get out of it because you just sit there wondering what was going on and how things ended up the way they did. You get several of Hopper's friends showing up including Peter Fonda, Julie Adams, Rod Cameron, Samuel Fuller, Michael Greene, Sylvia Miles, Tomas Millan, John Phillip Law, Kris Kristofferson, Dean Stockwell and Russ Tamblyn.THE LAST MOVIE certainly deserves its notorious reputation in Hollywood's long history. It's easy to see why the film bombed when it was released and it's easy to see why no one has really tried to get it back into release. With the various behind-the-scenes battles you do have to wonder if there's perhaps more footage out there and perhaps a coherent film could be put together. With Hopper now gone it's hard to tell. THE LAST MOVIE is certainly a bizarre little number that I'm guessing only its director knows what it's meant to be.

I loved The Last Movie. I was in film school at NYU when the film came out. It was the first movie to reveal the effect that Hollywood movies could have on individual acts of violence. Yes, Virginia, Movies and Television cause violence. Hopper shows his true genius. The Last Picture Show came out the same month. I always felt that The Last Picture Show was rushed into production to lesson the impact of The Last Movie, confusing the issue so to speak. Hollywood squashed this movie for its own survival. The Last Movie reveals the Ugly American as no other film before or after it. I would like to see it on video, but probably never will.

I'm not going to pretend that this was a good movie just cos it's a Dennis Hopper film. Surely even HE is wincing every time someone even mentions it to HIM. Come on. I bought it cos I wanted to find Richard Rust in it, and I BELIEVE he's the guy who kills the man and woman, quick left, right, after he finds his brother dead. How can I be sure?!?! I feel that I would know those hands anywhere after HE is shot dead. Anyway, I left the tape right there in case I want to see Richard Rust again, but that's about all I might want to do... I cannot recommend this film to anyone for any other reason BUT trying to find your actor of interest after seeing the credits here on the IMDb or something. Sorry. It just seems like a bunch of people who like to be together somewhere threw this film together for the hell of it. Maybe not such a bad idea after all. Wish I'd been there... www.moonchildiva.com

Stunt double (Dennis Hopper) is on location in Peru making a Sam Fuller western and stays behind to hatch 'get rich quick' plans only to find himself starring in a ceremonial movie of the natives. The big difference is while Hollywood violence is fake but the camera equipment is real, here things are reversed: the camera equipment is fake (fireworks make the camera reels spin) but the violence is real. Crazy imaginative production frequently goes off on hallucinatory tangents and the editing is creative to say the least. Easily the most interesting of Hopper's films. Alexandro Jodorowsky is rumored to have helped with the massive editing job.