Thanks for the memories!

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

I saw this movie on a plane and it was pretty alright, nothing spectacular. A bunch of old friends meet up in Las Vegas to throw a retirement bash for one of them. This is like Hangover but with the elderly. Nonetheless the star wattage alone should get you interested and all the stalwarts such as Morgan Freeman, Michael Douglas, Kevin Kline and Robert De Niro are fun to watch. A nice one time watch for the old bunch.

This movie is a mixture of comedy and emotion. It shows you cannot just morn for a person but can remeber them in heart and enjoy your day

From the director of '3 Ninjas' and 'Cool Runnings' comes 'Last Vegas'! Those may or may not sound like good pedigree (I'm ignoring 'National Treasure' on purpose), but it doesn't really matter how good a director you are when you have an all-star cast of Douglas, De Niro, Freeman, Kline & Steenburgen. Even Ferrara ("Turtle") & Malco are good in supporting roles. Needless to say, 'Last Vegas' is, to a degree, 'The Hangover' for old people.It has funny moments throughout, with some great laughs in places, but there's also a fair bit of time spent wasted with parties, girls in bikini's (it is Las Vegas, after all) and some drama between De Niro's & Douglas' that wasn't really necessary. My main gripe would be that these sentimental moments add on an unnecessary 20min to the movie.The story is very simple and quite predictable, but what you can't quantify is the way the four lead actors just work well together. I think special mention must go to Kline who has some of the best lines and laughs, but the four of them together, quipping and joking at/with each other, is great to watch.

Last Vegas (2013): Dir: Jon Turteltaub / Cast: Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro, Kevin Kline, Mary Steenburgen: An elderly version of The Hangover only it totally lacks the laughs and clever writing of that great comedy. Title regards the conclusion of youth and innocence. Michael Douglas stars as the centre piece of four friends that go back to childhood. He is getting married to a woman thirty years his junior and he contacts his friends for a weekend bachelor party in Vegas. Robert De Niro plays an estrange friend who resents Douglas because he failed to attend his wife's funeral. This resentment runs deeper before the conclusion reveals deeper pain. Morgan Freeman is on pills is monitored by his son so he must sneak out undetected. Kevin Kline plays the fourth wheel whose wife gives him an envelop that contains a Viagra pill and a condom. While he does have an uncomfortable encounter with men in drag, it is obvious that he will not cheat on his wife even when the opportunity presents itself. The female roles are unfortunately underwritten and placed as props for romantic clichés. The cast is wonderful but the screenplay is as bland as the lights going out in Vegas. The Hangover is brilliant but here it doesn't quite hit the laugh factor. Director Jon Turteltaub has done better films such as While You Were Sleeping and National Treasure: Book of Secrets. He doesn't totally miss here thanks to a great cast and a theme of age and friendship. Big fans of the actors will be curious but Vegas is always better with the Wolf Pack in the dawn of the boozing. Score: 5 ½ / 10