The Last Word

Interesting premise that works most of the time, but MacLaine's actual ego keeps showing through when they would have preferred it to have appeared practiced or skillfully portrayed. It is a chick flick after all, and the male station manager manages to maintain his character's peripheral status in the story.

This is as by the numbers as a film gets. But it somehow touched me, probably due to veteran acting of MacLaine and Seyfried holding her own.

The filmmakers embarked on a task at the film's onset: to paint Shirley McLean's character as a despicable person. However, their efforts to portray her as an insufferable and narcissistic individual who made everyone's lives miserable with her mere presence proved to be a formidable challenge for the audience to overcome. As the film progressed and we were given a deeper insight into her life, she slowly transformed into a nuanced, multidimensional character, eliciting empathy and making it ea

Entertainment: 3.5/4. Spirit: 1.5/3. Sustainability: 1/3.

A film about a narcissist trying to earn herself a legacy? That is an immediate turn off and the film just became increasingly more and more difficult to watch. Nothing is worthy of praise. Just a bad movie