The Last Outlaw

When I first saw this movie I thought "what is Mickey Rourke doing making himself look slightly homosexual as a cowboy outlaw"!!? As I watched the movie though, it didn't matter how he looked, he was deadly. Probably the only criminal cowboy who could get away with that "dandy" look. I thought that the entire cast was great in their own parts, but once again, as with every movie he is in, Mickey Rourke stood out. It was back in the day, when I chanced upon watching "Rumble Fish", with Matt Dillon, Dennis Hopper, and (my then personal favorite), William Smith, that I noticed the Motorcycle Boy. He stole that movie, no problem. From then on out, it was because of Mickey Rourke that I watched any movie he was listed in. He is like the greatest American actor EVER.

An interesting cast does their best, with some material borrowed from Peckinpaugh and Leone. We get the closeups, and the blood spurting slow motion, along with some genuine tension. Mickey Rourke's character is menacing in an almost mystical way. What is not so good is that one must suspend disbelief, when the posse makes Mickey Rourke their new leader, when men seem to take endless bloody gunshots with little effect, and the distracting, out of place use of four letter words. The scenery is stunning, camera work above average, along with some acceptable acting. I consider "The Last Outlaw" to be a slightly above average western. - MERK

This is absolutely one of my favorit western movies. I have written earlier that i thought Young Guns and Tombstone was the best,but that was because i had not seen this one. In the lead role you'll find Mickey Rourke as Graff,and he was like made for this kind of movie.He is the perfect bad guy. The movie has also other famous actors like John C. McGinley and Steve Buscemi,but no one can match the incredible Mickey Rourke.

The story is about a gang of bank robbers in the wild west and after a while the gang starts to get tired of their leader Graff and decides to shot him after a job and leave him to die.Unnfortunantly for them Graff survives and are forced by the sherif and his menn to help to hunt down the gang.But no one knows that Graff has a plan of his own,to kill everybody and take off with the money.

This movie has a real western feel to it and all the actors play their role great.

The Last Outlaw

I don't think they could have got a better cast if they tried, you just have to look at the stars in this film to show that, Mickey Rourke, Steve Buscemi, Ted Levine, Keith David, John C. McKinley and the wasted Dermot Mulrony who a lot of western fans will remember him for one of his early roles as Dirty Steve in Young Guns. I saw this when it came out on video in the mid nineties and films that went straight to video back in the nineties were great like Surviving the Game, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man etc and the Last outlaw was the same. The beginning of the film is a blatantly obvious homage to the beginning of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch where they rob the bank and the town's sheriff and his men are waiting for them to have a huge gun battle. But the film really starts when Dermot Mulrony shoot's the leader of the pack Graff (Mickey Rourke) for trying to execute one of there men and that's when the films suddenly becomes a revenge story. Of course Graff survives and is picked up by the posse hunting them down and instead and giving himself up he ends up offering the posse to actually be there leader and hunt down his own men for leaving his for dead. From there it's like a cat and mouse western which doesn't stop till the end credits and it really delves into the story of leadership. You have fine performances here from Mickey Rourke as the sadistic Graff but the films goes to Dermot Mulrony as the desperate Eustos who battles with thought of whether what he did was right as his men are picked off one by one. This film ain't no Good the Bad and the Ugly but it definitely bests any John Wayne film ever made (I'm an obvious John Wayne Hater).

In this movie I saw at least 10 great character actors whom I've seen in other movies, and their previous movies were pretty good.. when I read the cast-list for this movie I thought: "WOW, MAN!...this ROCKS!" - so I decided to see this so-called "Exciting Western"... And boy, was I disappointed...words cannot express my feelings of misery after watching this completely meaningless carnage... All these excellent actors, with all that potential, and what are they given?... a handful of cliché-lines, and then getting shot - usually some place where blood can spurt out in gallons, so there's something for the gorehounds!

Well, Mickey Rourke (Angel Heart) did a nice enough job...he portrayed their heinous criminal gang-leader very well, and did all he could do with this generic "Ten Little Indians"-inspired script..

Dermot Mulroney (Young Guns) as the second-in-command was somewhat decent in this role too...very sympathetic guy. Steve Buscemi (Reservoir Dogs) ...aw, man... my favorite actor in this semistar-studded cast... I thought his character had some interesting background-information (wearing the army hat and rambling about their previous adventures), but we never really get a chance to know his character before he "exits" (it was fairly obvious, as soon as he started to talk about his "Hacienda" and his future plans, etc).

Keith David (The Thing), plays a seemingly cool guy, but suddenly he turns crazy for some reason, I didn't understand what the hell happened to him... the movie had this sense of "mystery" throughout, as though Rourke's character had supernatural abilities.... Not quite "The Quick and the Dead", but more like "The Superfast and the Soon-to-be-Dead".

John C. McGinley (Scrubs), I've always liked this guy...but he doesn't make sense in this movie either.. why does he have to be a 'knife-man'... when he NEVER even uses the knife for anything, other than accidentally cutting himself...and the 'traitor'-part...money out of the window? Such a stupid script.. All the others are great actors, but they're all totally wasted in this feeble adventure... the sheriff, the banker, the possé, EVERYONE gets it...except...well, you figure it out for yourself.

Other great actors in this flick: Ted Levine (Silence of the Lambs), Daniel Quinn (Scanner Cop), Gavan O'Herlihy (Lonesome Dove), Richard Fancy (Seinfeld), Paul Ben-Victor (Tombstone), and many more!

But in some sense, I still liked it, because of the great locations, and some good scenes (where people die, of course)... They probably won't make a sequel to this, but a PREQUEL would certainly kick more ass than this did! A movie where the gang of these intriguing characters go berserk and raid banks and stuff, and how we get to see their development, etc.

I orginally gave this 5/10, but will up the rating to 7/10 because....well, because I liked the cast, and gore is always somewhat entertaining.. and cowboys are so rugged and cool!