Last Man Standing

Comedy, Drama

Rodger Corser	Adam Logan
Matt Passmore	Cameron Kennedy
Travis McMahon	Bruno Palmer
Miriama Smith	Zoe Hesketh
Heidi Arena	Charlotte Hooper
Stephen Phillips	Mark Hooper
Jesse Griffin	Chich
Greg Fleet	Boxy
Fletcher Humphrys	Anto
Jeff Wincott
Jillian McWhirter
Jonathan Fuller
Ava Fabian
Jonathan Banks
Michael Greene
Steve Eastin
Bruce Willis	John Smith
Bruce Dern	Sheriff Ed Galt
William Sanderson	Joe Monday
Christopher Walken	Hickey
David Patrick Kelly	Doyle
Karina Lombard	Felina
Ned Eisenberg	Fredo Strozzi
Alexandra Powers	Lucy Kolinski
Michael Imperioli	Giorgio Carmonte
Ken Jenkins	Capt. Tom Pickett

Director	Pino Amenta; Grant Brown; Walter Hill; Joseph Merhi
Producer	Sue Edwards; Marieke Hardy; Richard Pepin; Walter Hill; Ewan Burnett; Geoff Deane
Writer	Geoff Deane; Jeff Truman; Joseph Merhi; Ryuzo Kikushima; Akira Kurosawa; Marieke Hardy

Best known for making movies about men and violence, director Walter Hill scored a misfire with this ambitious but ultimately dreary remake of Akira Kurosawa's samurai classic Yojimbo. The story's essentially the same but the setting has been switched to a dusty, almost ghostly Texas town in the 1930s, where two rival Chicago gangs are locked in an uneasy truce. Bruce Willis plays the lone drifter who allies himself with both gangs to his own advantage, working both sides against each other according to his own hidden agenda. The violence escalates to a bloody climax, of course, with Christopher Walken, David Patrick Kelly, and Michael Imperioli as trigger-happy lieutenants in a lonely, desolate war. Fans of gangster movies will want to see this, and, if nothing else, Hill has brought his polished style to a vaguely mythic story. It's far from being a classic, however, and although its action is at times masterfully choreographed, the movie's humorless attitude is unexpectedly oppressive. --Jeff Shannon