Last Vegas

Last Vegas

Last Vegas is a comedy starring a stellar ensemble cast of Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline. It’s also directed by Jon Turteltaub who is behind movies such as The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Cool Runnings.

So the film follows the lives of Billy, Paddy, Archie and Sam who are in their senior years and have been friends since childhood.

Now Billy is the only bachelor amongst this group of friends, but he eventually proposes to his girlfriend who is half his age, being 32 to be exact.

So in order to celebrate, Archie and Sam decide to throw a bachelor party in Las Vegas and try to relive their youth just one more night.

Now this movie does seem to have a Hangover type of feel to it if you consider the fact that this is a comedy and it does involve 4 guys going to Vegas. However, this is a more toned down film and nowhere near as vulgar. But I’ll get to that shortly.

What I didn’t like about this film:

There were only a couple of things that just didn’t seem to work. Firstly there’s the music. Now when it comes to music in a film, you technically shouldn’t hear it. The job of the composer and the director is to create a medium that plays with your emotions and really brings you into the film and music is that medium. However, I found some of the songs just a bit too distracting and then in the third half of the film a montage plays out. Best way to describe montage, think of 80s films, they show people training over a long period of time but just shows all the important stuff to speed things along. So in Last Vegas a montage is shown with them getting ready for a massive party, yet the music was just totally wrong and really did nothing for that scene other than just irritate me.

What I did like about the film:

Well, we’re dealing with a stellar cast of amazing actors, so performance wise was just brilliant. The movie is also really funny, there are a couple of slapstick moments and it does get a bit sloppy as it does become sort of a romantic comedy towards the end, but in all the movie is quite entertaining and there will be a number of laughs guaranteed. Now if you are a fan of the dance group LMFAO you’ll be pleased to know that they do make a cameo in this film and it does ensue with some awkward, embarrassing laughs.

So with that in Mind, Last Vegas gets a senior driven 7 out of 10

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