Last Ride

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

2.7K

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Hugo Weaving and Tom Russell in Last Ride (2009)

A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law for committing a violent crime.

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A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law for committing a violent crime.A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law for committing a violent crime.A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law for committing a violent crime.

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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

2.7K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win & 8 nominations total

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Featured review

7/10

Well made but unappealing

Last Ride is well made and well acted. The cinematography is a treat.

Unfortunately the script lets the film down. The central character (played by Hugo Weaving) is just a bit too unappealing, just a bit too hard to relate to, just a bit too hard to empathise with, just a bit too selfish.

In a way the film could be compared to Clint Eastwood's A Perfect World. Both are stories about the last ride of father and son figures. But where in A Perfect World I felt sympathy for the fate of Kevin Costner's father figure, in Last Ride Hugo Weaving's father ultimately left me repelled. For me the film suffered for that and, for me, the fault was with the script.

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Trivia
Debut theatrical feature film of director Glendyn Ivin whose short film Cracker Bag (2003) about six years earlier in 2003 had won the Palme D'Or Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Goofs
Throughout the movie Chuck has a mark, either a mole or a birthmark, on his right side of the chin. When he encounters the camels the mark is on the left side.

Quotes
Chook: I've got black-fella in me
Ranger Lyall: Don't say
Kev: Yeah our great grandmother was aboriginal
Ranger Lyall: Of course you're black-fella you were born during the daytime that's why your skin is fair and your eyes are blue, I was born during the night that's why my skin is black and my eyes are brown
Chook: It's great being a black-fella
Ranger Lyall: [laughs] He really is a black-fella