Robert J. Maxwell Lots of tossed-off wisecracks and funny lines in this movie. "I see you're lookin' at my face. My wife set me on fire while I was asleep. Squirted lighter fluid all over me. Six months later the marriage fell apart." Six months later? Fell APART? The story is simple enough. Baldwin, an FBI agent, hooks an unknowing Broderick into making a movie in Providence, Rhode Island, as a sting operation to nail John Gotti. The operation fails but the movie isn't really about Gotti or crime anyway. It's about two goofs who get swept up in an obsession to make a movie that's set in the Arizona desert. The FBI supplies them with just enough money to begin casting the "production". When the notice appears in Variety they get volunteer offers from academy-nominated actress Emily French (Toni Collet), Pat Morita, and Russel Means. The fantasy begins to turn so real that the original goal is forgotten and the artistic adventure acquires functional autonomy. Ars Gratia Arse, so to speak.The movie pokes a lot of fun at the Hollywood community. Russel Mean is supposed to play a character named Chief Blackbear, however he is informed that the name must be changed to Chief Blackhawk. He looks a bit taken aback and muses, "I guess I'll have to learn to manage that." Calista Flockheart's character punctures her thigh with a fork to arouse "sensory memories." Over dinner in a fancy restaurant, Colett rapidly runs through her physical and psychiatric history to a stunned Baldwin and Broderick and winds up peeing into an empty wine glass to show how she is tested for drugs every six months, while the other customers stop eating and the piano music comes to a halt.It's pretty amusing. Not so much the story as the exchanges between the characters that are written into the script. (The editor holds on a bit too long sometimes after the gags, waiting for the laughter to subside.) There's something rather sad about the ending, when the FBI forcibly shuts down the production -- kind of like "The Teahouse of the August Moon." Everyone is having such a ball that it seems tragic to have to get back to business.Yet, though the movie is amusing, it's not outrageously so. Anyone who wants to see a comedy about making a phony movie should rent "After the Fox," which in its combination of Italian over-the-top bombast and Jewish repartee is a classic of its kind.This one is worth catching though and offers some good laughs. The difference between the seasoned FBI agent, Baldwin, who has dealt with low lifes, and the ambitious director, Broderick, who was raised in the company town of Hollywood, is perfectly captured in a single exchange. The fake producer Baldwin makes up a story about the death of his fictitious wife. Broderick is sorry to hear that and asks, "Was she in the business?" Baldwin turns to stare at him -- for a long time -- and then asks, "Why would I marry a whore?"

Julian Diaz The last shot is about a detective Joe Devine (Alec Baldwin) that is investigating a mobster, Tommy Sanz (Tony Shalhoub), so he make a fake movie to lure him.I don't know if the actors that are in this movie don't read the script or something because it sucks. I rent it for Ray Liotta that appears very little in the movie, Alec Baldwin do a great job and Matthew Broderick well no so much.Very disappointing, with this great actors, this movie could be good. It have some good moments but overall is bad, the story is very weak and is just not funny, Follow my advise and don't watch it, don't let the cast fool you the movie is bad.

Enchorde Recap: FBI-agent Joe Devine has an idea. It's an unorthodox idea that might lead directly to the arrests and conviction of several key mafia members. He just needs to produce a movie. He recruits Steven Schats, a struggling writer/director. It's not hard either to convince or to lead poor Steven, who thinks he might finally get his chance, to film his Arizona-set movie in Providence. A landfill is rebuilt to Grand Canyon, a rental storage converted to a cave and so on. And then the nominated Emily French appears and wants the leading role. Everything seems to go great, and Joe likes to produce the movie. But his bosses at FBI are not convinced he really has to make the movie to get the bad guys...Comments: A great story, based on a true story none the less. It is a shame that nothing better than this came of it. Sure there are some odd moments or peculiar things that happens, some witty dialog but they are far between. Moments to laugh about even scarcer. And when it is finally starting to get interesting, when they start to shoot the movie (think about potential complications with a garbage Grand Canyon, or mafia involvement in the movie like casting known hit men and so on) and one thinks that the fun is about to start, the director of the FBI shows up and cancels the project. End of movie.I don't think there are any poor performances from the actors, I just think they never got a chance to do anything. The cast includes totally wasted talent. Funny Shalhoub is cast as a serious mobster, Broderick's character never got any chance to evolve, Flockhart who plays Stevens hysterical girlfriend might have done well with more space, and I think Liotta appears in just two scenes. The only actor that delivered about what I expected was Baldwin, that calmly played agent Devine in a nice way.No, I expected more from this. A lot more. I think both cast and story was totally mishandled. A documentary of the real event might be funnier...4/10

BraveHawk The Last Shot is a supposedly true story about the FBI, undercover on a fake film set, known only to the few agents involved, trying to lure in an unsuspecting mobster in order to arrest him. With the actors and actresses involved, I expected more. A lot more, actually. While this was not a bad movie, I was still a bit disappointed.Director Steven Schats (Matthew Broderick) and fake producer Joe Wells (Alec Baldwin) are making a movie called Arizona, which Schats and his brother happened to write. Along the way, Wells, AKA FBI Agent Joe Devine is talking the FBI into going further and further into actually shooting the movie until it seems that the FBI is actually interested in offering Devine a 3 picture deal.Meanwhile, the casting is beginning and actually getting the attention of worthwhile movie stars, most notably Emily French (Toni Collette). Toni is visually stunning in this movie.This movie was not too hard to watch, but still, I thought the talent could have made something much better. I miss the charismatic Broderick of Ferris Beuller. Most of the humor seemed to be of low value shock attempts, with the constant cursing. I am not against it, but in this case, it just seemed more childish and cheap than funny. Overall, not too bad but there are plenty of better movies to choose from. 6.5/10