The Last Yellow

This film is a kind of ensemble piece but not in that talking loud verbal battles in one room kind of way. It's rather that here are distinctive personalities instead of everyone being cool (or being the ones the cool ones pick on) as is the way in so many films. These characters are very fallable. There's who Frank still lives with his Mum on the dole and when she finally throws him out, the sons at his boarding house, one who'se life was wrecked in a violent attack and the other who, with little conception of reality, was too scared to anything when it happened. It's not heavy though, but very warm and funny, just stripped of the glamour and glitz of most films out there. It turns into a sort of thriller and doesn't fall flat as these films can that start by observing with humour then try to hold onto the humour while adding suspense. Alongside Gregory's Two Girls and Stiff Upper Lips, another very enjoyable, well-made British comedy.

This is a very dark and entertaining story about two no-hopers from the North of England who travel South to attempt a murder. Very dark, and very, very funny.

I got this out of my local video shop, having read an article by the director defending the film and saying the press had killed it. I felt sorry for him. All I can say is, if the press destroyed this film they must have done it by changing all the words of the script before it was shot, forcing all the actors to be as unlikeable and stupid as possible, and getting behind the camera to make sure it was never quite in the right place. There's a montage of "Swinging London" in this that would not be out of place in Summer Holiday. If it's supposed to be ironic, it doesn't work. It just makes you yearn for Cliff.

My First ever review on this site so i thought i'd take it easy and pick an independent film.

I personally thought this film was awful the storyline execution was poor. The ending left you with an unfulfilled feeling. pure disappointment especially considering the narrative drive of the story was to get revenge for a brutal attack on someone that left them physically disabled.

the unsatisfying ending made the whole film seem a pointless waste of time with a few low end laughs here and there. i didn't want a typical Hollywood ending with the good guys winning but i did want an ending.

The whole film is basically a fully grown man who lives with his mum gets kicked out meets some weedy guy and they go to London zoo if this is your idea of the best conceivable plot line for a film then it's a must watch but for anyone with the slightest sense of taste should steer clear of this.

all in acceptable story line, poorly executed, poor dialogue with repetition of one world being the only defining feature of the main protagonist, poor acting and shafted at the final hurdle.

To many viewers this film will have little resonance. But it taps into a now little known, and increasingly forgotten, side of English life of the 1980s and 1990s. Back then there was mass unemployment and loads of "spare" blokes without much purpose. I knew this world well, lived it, and so did many of my mates mooching between pub, bookies and high street or just sitting on a bench somewhere having a laugh, making a few quid last for hours. This film made me laugh out loud, especially the hapless pizza moped bloke, I'm ashamed to admit. "On Her Majesty's social security" a wonderful play on the 007 franchise and true to the Walter Mitty-esque world of the main protagonist. Great soundtrack as well, "just the two of us" :-)