last man standing is a remake of akira kurosawa's excellent yojimbo, set in a prohibition-era mexican-border town. it's a reasonably faithful reinterpretation, but vastly inferior to the original, and also inferior to sergio leone's spaghetti western remake, a fistful of dollars. one of the things that absolutely kills this most recent version is the narration, which just sucks any mystery or tension out of the film.

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Of course, all of these movies are based on Dashiell Hammett's excellent 1929 novel, "Red Harvest". I highly recommend giving it a read sometime (add it to your library queue).

» fritzkafka » april 20, 2003 3:54pm

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