This movie is a combination of Husbands, The Hangover and Cocoon with all the good parts left out. It is like the Frankenstein monster - a combination of parts haphazardly put together, this time to create a mockery of a movie. If this movie was a living creature, it, like the Frankenstein creation, would be pursuing its creator to the ends of the earth, demanding to know why it was created. Nothing saves this movie. When a story is based on the belief that to validate ones life, one should drink, smoke, fornicate, dishonor ones marriage vows, risk ones health, and basically waste time, then it's a sure thing that something is awry. And when a story has one guy wanting to talk another guy out of getting married to a younger woman who loves him, then look for that red flag which means danger! According to this movie, a 70-plus year old man with money wanting to marry a 31 year old woman is not necessarily good. RED FLAG! The story is so contrived that it gives one cause to wonder why anyone would want to make this movie in the first place. You have four guys getting together in Las Vegas; one guy harbors animosity toward one of the other guys, that guy describes that other guy as a best friend. These kinds of nonsensical inconsistencies run throughout the movie, making watching this movie drudgery. This movie may set the record for the most worst performances by major movie stars in one movie. The movie's attempts at levity are insipid and misplaced and the actors looked tired, like the script. And the biggest cliché of the movie is the setting itself - in Las Vegas. One has cause to wonder how much the city of Las Vegas paid the movie producers to advertise Las Vegas in the movie. The personal values promoted by this movie are so destructive as to render them humorless. There is nothing funny about an elderly person going missing on his son with whom he lives, or of a so-called friend wanting to ruin another man's relationship with a woman as a way of showing that he cares. The format of this movie - four elderly men getting together for one last fling - had comedic potential, but instead fails as it gets bogged down in silly dialog, contrived scenes and blatant commercialism in which nobody comes out looking good. The one good feature of this movie is Mary Steenburgen who, at age 60, is hot, and easily gives the best performance.
Review of Last Vegas
