So much average

Good movie but grossly overrated

Absolutely the worst movie.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

...at first sigh. and not only. because it is the expected love story film. bitter, amusing, realistic, with few crumbs of fairy tale, fascinating for the lead actors, escaping from many cliches and using part of the most familiar from them, proposing a mature romance, a real rare virtue among the romantic films of the last decades, being more than a film with Emma Thompson and Dustin Hoffman , elegant, nostalgic, familiar and the right choice for middle age public. so, just perfect. sure, in a special sense.

'Last Chance Harvey' is a decent film, in all respects. It tells it's story well and the performances, by Dustin Hoffman & Emma Thompson, are top-notch. 'Last Chance Harvey' focuses on two lonely people who tentatively forge a relationship over the course of three days.Joel Hopkins Screenplay is sweet & entertaining. Also, the subtle romance between the 2 protagonists, is infectious. Hopkins Direction, on the other-hand, is neat. Cinematography, Editing, Art Design & Background Score, are efficient. Performance-Wise: Hoffman & Thompson are top-notch. Also, they share a very infectious & lovable chemistry on-screen, from start to end. Eileen Atkins does well. Liane Balaban & Kathy Baker are passable. Other lend the required support.On the whole, 'Last Chance Harvey' is a decent watch.

No one will mistake this for a great movie, but you know, it accomplishes what it sets out to do. An American writer of TV commercials (Dustin Hoffman) is fired from his job long distance, and finds something like love across the pond with a spinsterly, yet attractive survey taker at Heathrow Airport. Kate Walker (Emma Thompson) is dealing with her own self confidence issues, constantly fending off her mum who routinely calls to check in and see what's going on. This would have been pap in less skillful hands, but Hoffman pours on the winsome charm to get a reaction from Thompson's character, and together they manage to pass for a couple of strangers who are looking for love and manage to find it. No coarse language, no gratuitous sex, and no distracting violence - who would have imagined it? "Last Chance Harvey" works because it resembles real life, or as Harvey would insist - "No. It is real life".

"Last Chance Harvey" is, to me, a chance to see two great actors at work. That's it. That's all. It's an exhibition game, a free-skate, and it's a movie to be simply enjoyed, not analyzed.The great Dustin Hoffman here plays a middle-aged man, estranged from his ex-wife and adult daughter, estranged from his boss and industry, estranged from life. The enemy in this movie- though never explicitly stated- is mortality. The threat of death is what motivates Harvey to start a relationship with British spinster Kate, played by Emma Thompson. The movie does nicely parallel the true pattern of the aging baby-boomer generation... while only thirty years ago the thought of dating and marrying at age forty, fifty, sixty and beyond was unthinkable today it is commonplace. They are a generation that has never made peace with their own mortality and their solution is to become eternal teenagers.But back to the movie: the joy here is watching Hoffman and Thompson court and spark, enjoying themselves at a wedding and falling in love as they get to know one another. Dustin is so great an actor I could watch him read the phone book, and as usual he never hits a false note. Emma Thompson is good too, walking the fine line between tragic and pathetic, and it's great watching Kate awaken as Harvey spends his time on her.Okay, the plot doesn't offer much. Harvey's interactions with his ex and daughter put me in a coma, and his heart attack seemed contrived and anticlimactic. After all, just because he missed his park date with Kate doesn't mean he'll never see her again- he knows where she works for God's sake! But as I said before, this movie is not about plot... it's about hope, the hope that it's never too late to change your life or to find true love. Isn't that a very fine idea for a movie?GRADE: B-