THE LAST MOVIE (1971) ¢ ¢
D: Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper, Julie Adams, Stella Garcia,
Don Gordon, Tomas Milian, Donna Baccala,
Roy Engel, Samuel Fuller, Severn Darden,
Toni Basil, Kris Kristofferson, Sylvia Miles,
Rod Cameron, Peter Fonda, Warren Finnerty,
Michelle Phillips, Dean Stockwell, Russ Tamblyn,
John Phillip Law, Jim Mitchum, Henry Jaglom
Dennis Hopper's deranged followup to "Easy Rider", about a Hollywood stuntman who hangs around a Peruvian location after the shooting wraps and everybody else goes home. Hopper called it the cinematic equivalent of abstract expressionism - a film about film as film - but it's also self-indulgent, incoherent and most of the time, just plain boring. There's some impressive stuntwork , the cinematography's by László Kovacs, and Sam Fuller plays himself directing the movie within the movie, but if this is what the world looks like from inside Dennis Hopper's head, it's not a place you'd ever want to be. One way to make watching it more interesting might be to try to guess what chemicals the cast and crew were dabbling in, and how much.
