Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS**** Grossly underrated film by George C. Scott as professional getaway driver Harry Games who, as we see at the beginning of the film, is retired in a Portuguese fishing village who gets a job by the mob, the first in 9 years, to get convicted hit-man Paul Rickard,Tony Musante, out of a Spanish jail and back to safety across the border into France. With a staged break-out Rickard is picked up by Harry in his souped up BMW and to his surprise Rickard instead of wanting to flee to freedom he wants a confused and angry Harry to go out of his way and pick up his American girlfriend Claudine, Trish Van Dever, thus screwing up his time-table.Still determined to get the job done Harry not only risks his life in getting now both Rickard & Claudine to safety from the police but the very gangsters who hired him to free Rickard in order, it comes as a big surprise to Harry, to murder him! In some of the most stirring car chase scenes in movie history Harry finally gets Rickard and his girlfriend to the Spanish coast only to have the mob waiting for them. Harry who at first was only an innocent bystander in all this is shot by the mobsters who were holding his main squeeze Monique, Colleen Dewhurst, hostage whom he dropped in to say good-by. Realizing that a trap is set for Rickard and Caudine by the mobsters who shot and wounded him Harry tries to warn them but finds out that his friend fisherman Miguel, Aldo Sanbrell, who's supposed to pick them up on his fishing boat has also been murdered and shoots it out with his killers only, after putting them down, is himself killed! Now with the coast cleared both Rickard & Claudine sail to safety in Miguel's dinky fishing boat to far off to North Africa, some 500 miles away, and to safety.Not really an action movie as it was promoted to be that caused it to flop with the critics and public "The Last Run" was really a film of rediscovery for Harry Games who at first had no reason for living, after his son died at childbirth and wife left him,but found one in getting back behind the wheel and doing what he does or did best as a getaway driver for the mob back in Chicago. It gave Harry a final thrill that he lacked, in being out of the business, since he retired from the mob as well as knowing that he still, in being the top mob getaway driver,got it! P.S The movie "The Last Run" also had George C.Scott not only change professions, from a fisherman to getaway driver, but wives as well leaving his then wife Colleen Dewhurst, who he was married to twice, for the far younger by some 15 years Trish Van Devere who he stayed married to for 27 years until his death in 1999.

Richard Hobby The Last Run is a forgotten gem. George C. Scott lives a lonely life in a small fishing village in Portugal. His son has died and his wife has left him. His life has lost meaning. He decides to be once again a getaway driver to get back into the game of life. Of course it is a girl that brings this all out in the open.The music by Jerry Goldsmith is poignant and beautiful. Alan Sharp's writing is sharp indeed. And moving as well. Right up there with the screenplay for Arthur Penn's Night moves, which Sharp also wrote.I strongly recommend this movie. I give it a straight A.

Oskado Other viewers' comments, both negative and positive, have aptly classified this film's genre. Those with inclination toward existentialist thought (e.g., why are we here and what are the best options before embracing the void?) generally like it. I think the film great and wish it were available on DVD. Others find it vapid. Yet I think the theme similar to that found in Blade Runner or Pierrot le Fou - though different from, say, Kafka's Metamophosis, or The Trial, or from Camus' The Stranger, etc., in that this film's protagonist undergoes emotional development - along with another character who fears her fate and sees no other path to follow. Our protagonist's past life as an underworld character is significant not in the cops-and-robbers sense, but rather as an earmark of his "loner" personality - like Camus' Stranger. He's a retired individualist - like Blade Runner's Deckard - who after a career on the "outside" is sucked against his will into a melee of action and intrigue. All he'd longed for was to finish out his days in peace - in Portugal - though one can wonder if his automotive hobby (his surrogate child) and petty daily ritual could really have sustained him - yet such is the trap some see themselves born into; perhaps an earlier, unexpected coup de grace isn't to be under-appreciated.

Jonathon Dabell The Last Run was originally a John Huston project, but in the end it was taken up and completed by maverick director Richard Fleischer. Often, a change of personnel affects the film, but in this case, Fleischer has fashioned a decent thriller with picturesque locations and a tight plot.It's all about a getaway driver from Chicago who has settled down to a peaceful life in a Portugese fishing village. He is hired to drive a gangster and his girlfriend to the French border, under total assurance that the job is strictly routine. However, it turns out that the whole thing is a set-up, and that the gangster is the target of some killers. Getaway driver, gangster, and gangster's girlfriend all flee back to Portugal, pursued by their enemies.The characters are quite cold and cynical and don't appeal to the audience a great deal. This hurts the film, because it's awfully hard to care a damn about what happens to them. The film also suffers from a typically downbeat ending (as, indeed, many films from this era do). However, it has exciting moments and is always pleasing to the eye. The chase plot is gripping throughout and really helps to compensate for some of the not-so-good aspects.