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Last Man Standing (1996)
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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...
| Release Date: | September 26th, 1996 |
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Running Time: | 101 minutes |
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$18,115,927 (US)
$47,267,001 (World) |
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I once real that there are only 100 plots that can be used to write a story. All novels or movies are just variations of these 100. I don't know how true that is, but if you watch a lot of movies, you will come to believe it.
I generally hate it when they remake great Japanese movies, but since Akira Kurosawa (Rashômon,...
(complete Last Man Standing review by Movie Addict)
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