Movie Review: Last Vegas
November 01, 2013 | |||
| CBS Films |
Last Vegas is a watered down version of The Hangover with a shot of Grumpy Old Men. Last Vegas is about the reunion of four friends, now in their 60's, and high jinks that ensue. The friends who refer to themselves as the "Flatbush Four" reunite to have a bachelor party for the last bachelor of the group, Billy. Billy, played by Micheal Douglas, the aging playboy is faced with his mortality at the funeral of a friend and on a whim proposes to his latest girlfriend, who is half his age. The rest of the gang go to Vegas to support him but also to escape the misery of their current situations. Sam (Kevin Klein) is revved and rearing to go on the Vegas vacation from his retirement hell in Florida. As an added bonus, Sam's wife gives him a going away present - a little blue pill and a condom. Archie (Morgan Freeman) who suffered a stroke and is in the care of his overprotective son, is more than willing to "party like it's 1959" but must sneak out of the house to do so. The foursome is completed by Paddy (Robert De Niro) who has become bitter mourning the passing of his wife.
In the movie the Brooklyn foursome party it up in the Aria (plenty of advertising there), show their swag, pop bottles in VIP like the best of them, party with drag queens and Cirque performers and even teach Dean (Jerry Ferrara) the obnoxious young punk whose been antagonizing them a little about game and how to approach a woman. By the movie's end, Billy has fallen for Diana (Mary Steenburgen), a woman his age, Paddy is ready to move on from grieving, Archie has reclaimed his role as parent and grown-ass man with his son, and Sam has realized that the only woman he wants is his wife.
I enjoyed the performances of Freeman and Klein supported by Steenburgen, Ferrara, and Romany Malco. They carried the movie and made it watchable. For me the movie was average. Last Vegas has its funny moments and I think probably speaks more to an audience of a generation prior to my own.
Watch the Last Vegas trailer below:
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