The Last Kiss (Widescreen Edition) | Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett

The Last Kiss (Widescreen Edition) | Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett | A minor masterpiece of character study

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	The Last Kiss (Widescreen Edition) Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett Dreamworks Video, 2006 average customer review:based on 88 reviews view larger image
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The Last Kiss

Relationships are evaluated, endured, cursed and celebrated in this fast paced saga about friendship, love and commitment. I originally thought it was going to be a light hearted movie but was pleassntly surprised to find it a movie of real subtance. The characters are realistic and the emotion portrayed is believable. Although intense at times the characters demonstrate the angst and joy of life and love with another person. I found one of the lines especailly profound and have never heard anything expressed so honestly before. "Everbody says they love someone but what they feel really only matters to them. It's what they DO to the people they say they love is what really counts." Case point. End of story. I recommend this movie to those who are not afraid of real emotion. It is moving and they kind of movie that can effect your life in a positive way and stay with you a long time.

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A minor masterpiece of character study

While Paul Haggis (screenwriter) is best known now for Crash, Million Dollar Baby and other high profile movies, amongst all that came this adaptation of an Italian film - and what a gem it has turned out to be. This will most definitely not be to everyone's taste.. it is not the rom-com the advertising would have you believe. It is a study of relationships.
Zach Braff plays the 30 year old in a relationship with a woman he adores (Jacinda Barrett). She has just become pregnant. This faces him with the realisation that life has no surprises left and he is thrown into angst. At this point, a young beautiful and sexual woman (Rachel Bilson - a revelation) comes into his life, tempting him to take the easy route away from growing up. Alongside this we have his friends, in different stages of relationships all facing tough choices - one, Casey Affleck, has a hen-pecking wife with young child, and he is trying to decide whether to stay or not. Another is a serial womaniser facing reality that it might be time to change his ways, and another is recovering from a painful break up.
Crucially, the performances are all absolutely perfect - Zach Braff proves he can do something a little deeper, and Jacinda Barrett is absolutely brilliant. Every scene has a feeling of truth - you never feel like you are catching them playing at acting. Also giving the perspective from the other end of a marriage are Tom Wilkinson and Blythe Danner, who after 30 years together are having their own issues.
All the stories reflect the mistakes and false starts life brings into relationships, and how they can force us into a more mature place on the other side of those mistakes.
It's a talking heads movie, which does not look for any neat solution and traditional boy gets girl scenarios.. but it is a heartfelt look at real life relationships, and anyone over 30 should be able to find at least one of the characters they can relate to.
Highly recommended for those that like a talking head intelligent relationship movie that stays as far away from schmalz as possible.

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I Hope I Never Go Through This

I stay so far away from these types of movies that when I finally get to see one or forced to see one I really enjoy it. Last Kiss really surprised me; I thought that a film with so much drama going on within it would just annoy me. What I did get was some really good acting though Zach Braff seems to always have the same expression on his face to me. It could just be me but anyway on to the synopsis. The last Kiss is very very simple, a bunch of friends are turning thirty. They're all at different points in their lives but they all seem to have woman trouble except Michael. This guy has the perfect relationship and his girlfriend is pregnant which he is happy about. He has no problems right? But then the dingbat goes and makes problems making guys look really bad.

His friend is getting married and at this wedding he meets a pretty young college student. This girl sets her eyes on him and goes after him and though he resists at first he becomes intrigued by her and starts up something with her. Besides this Michael friends provide more drama and some pretty good comedy. His friend Izzy is still in love with his ex and does some crazy things because of her. He even starts yelling at her at someone else's wedding, foiling and crying because she won't take him back. His friend Chris has a newborn and is tired of coming home to his wife yelling at him and his child crying. Even Michael's girlfriend's parents are having major trouble, it's just a huge web of messy relationships. All of these guys have their trouble but the main focus is how Michael messes up something good all by himself.

The Last Kiss was unbelievable and if you ask me the writing itself was a bit different but very realistic. In real life things really just happen all of a sudden and that's what the movie does. It shows how a guy can have everything one day but then one thing just changes his total outlook about his life. I love the dialogue; Jacinda Barret who plays Jenna (Michaels girlfriend) plays an angry girlfriend very well. She was really good even picking up a knife and threatening to kill Michael. The acting was good no problems there but I hated the ending. I was just expecting something different and surprising; also a lot of things were not disclosed. I would have liked to know what happened to the other characters other than the main characters. Overall Last Kiss was a pretty good movie. The story has been heard before but the style was new to me and it was entertaining I would definitely recommend this.

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A STORY OF SEDUCTION AND REMORSE

2006. Remake, written by Paul Haggis, of the multi-awarded The Last Kiss, an Italian movie directed by Gabriele Muccino. The tragicomic adventures of four friends not quite ready to become responsible adults. Rather good movie.

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