Last Night
Last Night
R | 06 May 2011 (USA)
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Michael and Joanna are a young and successful married couple who appear to have it all. But when Michael finds himself alone on a business trip with an attractive new colleague and Joanna encounters the other great love of her life, each is thrust into an evening of temptation.

Reviews
Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.
SnoopyStyle Joanna (Keira Knightley) is a writer married to commercial real estate agent Michael Reed (Sam Worthington). She meets his co-worker Laura Nunez (Eva Mendes) at a party and suspects they had an affair during their L.A. business trip. He leaves for Philadelphia with Laura while she encounters her ex Alex Mann (Guillaume Canet). Sandra (Stephanie Romanov) and Truman (Griffin Dunne) are his friends.Sam Worthington is not a compelling actor to me. I never bought a ticket on the Worthington express. I don't find any buy-in with his relationship with Knightley. I'm not invested in them and their struggles hold no tension. It's a lot of talk. It teases a reckoning but it never delivers. It's a truncated movie about a relationship that I'm not sure I care about in the first place.
rsj624 **May Contain Spoilers**Last Night is one of those films that's bound to make enemies of many and friends of few. From a critical perspective it can be considered too nuanced and subtle in it's storytelling approach, lacking much bulk in both story-telling style and character development. But this film doesn't seem to care about pleasing critics, rather, it's most enjoyable when it's thought of as asking us as viewers to recall a time which we have embodied at least one of the films four characters. The husband who wants to cheat for one night, the girl who wants the man she knows she can't have, the wife who wants the man she knows she truly belongs with, and the guy who hopelessly loves the girl that got away. For the most part it's easy to be at least one of these four people, and this chance to relate is perhaps the movies strongest asset aside from a great performance from Keira Knightly, who rarely disappoints, and some beautiful NYC locations. If you go into Last Night expecting it to be 'that movie' everyone overlooked, you'll be let down. But if you treat it as one of those late night quick watches, or a movie to relax with when sick or simply not feeling like doing much, it's an easy and mellow watch.
ghina-k-kameh The movie has been out for four years, and I am thankful I have only watched it today. Back then I would be sad for such an ending expecting a happily ever after for Alex and Jo. But today thinking about it, the movie reflected realities that most are unwilling to acknowledge. And that is indeed the beauty of the movie. Regardless of the simple plot, the movie has kept me interested from beginning to end. The topic, even though discussed in several movies, was interpreted in a classy and thorough way. The reason i gave it a seven is mainly the lack of chemistry between Michael and Laura which led me to wishing that the focus of the movie was Alex and Jo's story only.
pc95 So, director and writer Massy Tadjedin in her movie, "Last Night", may be aiming to peek into the world of cheating maybe objectively. And her dialog is sometimes colorful, and rich in detail. She's created an interesting environment that in some scenes succeeds with building tension such as Knightley's character out on a "double-date" type dinner - maybe the best scene in the movie (with Griffin Dunne stealing the dialog in sage-like zen). Dunne's character seems to be the voice of the writer, perhaps, as he cautions his French friend about breaking marriages. However other times the writing and dialog bores with many of the scenes of Worthington and Mendes - with little attraction or chemistry seeming to register. Their infidelity is not as well developed or explained as Knightly's, perhapson purpose. I liked the movie on the whole. (spoiler) The ending is left nicely hanging, although anyone watching will know where it's headed. A decent watch (6.5/10)