The Last Run (2004)

Directed by: Jonathan Segal | 93 minutes | drama, comedy | Actors: Fred Savage, Amy Adams, Steven Pasquale, Andrea Bogart, Erinn Bartlett, Vyto Ruginis, Robert Romanus, Ray Baker, Abby Brammell, Amanda Swisten, Lisa Arturo, Jillian Bach, Ina Barron, Judith Benezra, Art Bonilla, Sharon Brathwaite- Sanders, Nahtasha Budhi, Todd M. Camhe

With some films it is difficult to discover where they derive their raison d’être. ‘The Last Run’ definitely falls into this category. Because it is completely unclear what this film has to offer the average enthusiast. In ‘The Last Run’ we meet Steven Goodson (Fred Savage). Steven is doing well, because despite his normal life (he has a simple office job), he has managed to have a relationship with the woman of his life, the stunning model Chloe (Andrea Bogart) for three years. . However, when he finds out at the beginning of the film that she has been cheating on her for several months, he dumps his great love and there is only one remedy for his heartbreak: to sleep with as many women as possible.

At first you think that ‘The Last Run’ is a romantic comedy. On the advice of his best friend Jack (Steven Pasquale), Steven decides to go woman hunting. However, the first few attempts by him ultimately fail and he is unable to get over his heartbreak. However, once he has had success a few times, things go horribly wrong, both with Steven and with the film itself. From this moment on Steven does nothing but share the bed with one woman after the other, often for a fee, but sometimes also by ‘just’ decorating them. The viewer loses all sympathy he or she had with Steven in the beginning. The vulgar and disrespectful way he treats the women makes it difficult not to hate him.

The supporting characters aren’t much better either. Because although at first glance Jack is happily married to the sweet Alexis (Amy Adams), this too is only apparent. Where Steven is only out for sex, Jack does it purely for the money of Alexis and her family. The only sympathetic character in the film, Alexis, is completely pushed into the background at the expense of all the sexual violence you get to see. No, this film certainly doesn’t have to have any of the characters. Likewise, Steven isn’t the type to play the huge womanizer that any woman he wants can get. In the beginning of the film, he is portrayed as a bit of an average person who was lucky to have a woman like Chloe as a girlfriend. His transformation into a womanizer therefore comes quite out of the blue and is not logical.

The second part of the film is therefore quite aimless. You don’t get to see much more than Steven who shares the bed with one woman after another. The ninety minutes of the film feel way too long. The last part is fairly redundant and as a viewer you are already done with it at that moment. Because the later scenes in which a nine-year-old boy tries to lecture Steven and get him on the right path are also rather laughable. ‘The Last Run’ is a movie where as soon as it’s over you’ve already forgotten that you’ve seen it. And maybe that’s for the better.