shericastro97 Maybe I have to be more into dance to understand this movie but I give it a 4. The only reason I watched it was because of Patrick Swayze being in it. It had some good dance moves. It was melodramatic for the most. I got bored pretty quick into the movie. I wish I could say something more nice about it. Glad I purchased it for a buck. Sure miss Patrick Swayze. The ending is a bit predictable. Would of enjoyed it more if they made it when they were younger. They waited too long to make the movie out of their experiences i believe. I enjoyed watching Patrick and Lisa dancing together especially after reading the books of Patrick and Lisa life together. It was also nice to remember Patrick Swayz in good health and doing what he loved, dancing.

tedg This business of folded narrative is never so poignant as when the situations of real life are layered into a film. If you come to this just for the fictitious thread and literal presentation, you will be disappointed. It just doesn't have juice. We have an hour and a half of repetitious angst with no change, no new angles. Things just plod.There is some nice dancing by extras playing the troupe and these sections are lighted creatively. When we see the three main characters, they are dance-acting, showing emotion associated with the story.But if you encompass the whole, and allow for three layers (the real life of the actors, the story of the movie and the "story" in the dance), then you have something so endearing it hurts.We have Swayze and his wife. They met as teens in his mother's dance studio, married and have lived a partnership within the context of dance. They clearly love each other, and do so within a physical language that is partly public, but which has decades of secret motions, seeded and harvested.After a long marriage, she decides to make a film. It is a valentine for her man. It is a celebration of a relationship in dance. It is — I believe — to satisfy the desire to perform their love, not so that anyone need see it, but because the private intercourse demands it.So what does she do? She writes a story about aging dancers, estranged lovers who have conflated their fears and desires for dancing with their fears and desires for each other. As they dance, they reconnect in the love. The name of the difficult dance they are revisiting is heavily named "Without a Word." It is a simple, pure, lovely idea, and it touched me deeply. The idea.These are not good actors. They are good dancers but not great ones. Many scenes have them pretending to be better dances than they actually are but hobbled by age so the moves are more clumsy than they can achieve. It is a strange acting challenge and I suggest the movie has merits on this score alone.It also is an entry in my list of films where the director is in love with the main actor. Usually, it is an older man and a hypnotically beautiful younger woman in the early, obsessive stages of romance. This is quite, quite different.Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.

themush01 One Last DanceNot all movies have a psychological approach to them. A movies message can be delivered to its audience through various techniques. Within the movie One Last Dance contains various psychological comparisons. The movie showed the psychological ego, self- doubt and the infamous midlife crisis. During the beginning of the movie it was obvious that there was many different psychological aspects to this film. It became apparent to the viewers that this psychological technique was being used while the main character dances in the dance studio while it was very dark. While dancing he is remembering and almost being haunted by many different points in his life where he experienced many different things. The music is playing smoothly and gracefully and he is going through all of the movements to this dance in his head. While this is going on there is a tree branch lying across the floor. This dead tree branch represents the trio's choreographer who passed away before the show was performed. The darkness of the room represents the troublesome emotion that is being portrayed because of the death. The sheets that are being blown in the wind also symbolized the spirit that is haunting him as he remembers the hardships and suffering that all of the dancers had gone through under his instruction. Another point in time during the movie is when he falls. This fall represents when the woman of the trio had fallen. This implies the difficulty and failure of the project.One Last Dance has many different psychological associations. This dance movie had a very meaningful story. The story shows the hardships and beauty of dancing. Overall it was a very interesting and enjoyable dance movie that I would highly recommend to those who are studying dance through film.

Bob-45 "One Last Dance" is another one of those movies whose bad word of mouth will puzzle a lot of viewers. While the major subplot has been done a hundred times before (frequently better), the music and dance are superb. Further, while Lisa Niemi (Mrs. Patrick Swayze) is a pretty inept actress, her camera setups superbly capture the dance. Besides, "One Last Dance" boasts one superb performance, that of George De La Pena ("Max"). With this movie, Lisa Niemi, for better or worse, clearly establishes herself as both the brains and drive behind Patrick Swayze.Hopefully, "One Last Dance" will usher in a whole series of dance films, both comedies and dramas; and one could certainly do much worse than the dance team of Swayze and Niemi.I give "One Last Dance" a "7".