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becky677

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I thought this was a good movie. I like Robert Redford and James Gandolfini so that was what first caught my eye before purchasing this movie when it came out. I liked the whole movie and think if you have not seen it by now you should.

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Posted feb 7, 2007 6:15 pm pt

• [+] New York Post
  
  88
  It's an even rarer pleasure to see a film that combines exciting action with a smart, well-informed script and vivid yet restrained performances.

  by Jonathan Foreman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  75
  It could have been more, could have been a triumph and a classic, instead of simply an effective entertainment.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  75
  The kind of movie you can enjoy easily enough, as long as you don't think about it much.

  by Jay Carr | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  75
  Not as simple as it looks, though its appeal is simple: Robert Redford goes to prison, and James Gandolfini ("The Sopranos") is the warden. That's a movie worth seeing right there.

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  75
  Like Lurie's previous two films, it's also simplistic and somewhat muddled.

  by William Arnold | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Reader
  
  70
  Engrossing if standard-issue prison drama.

  by J. R. Jones | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
  70
  Lurie manages, despite these obstacles, to inspire Redford to give one of the most layered and interesting performances of his career.

  by F. X. Feeney | Read Full Review »
• [+] Philadelphia Inquirer
  
  63
  If this melodrama has that haven't-we-met-before look, it's because it combines elements of "The Caine Mutiny" (Gandolfini's Winter is Queeg-like) with those of "Stalag 17."

  by Carrie Rickey | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  63
  An outrageously unlikely prison action movie made with lots of eye-catching pizzazz and undeserved expertise.

  by Michael Wilmington | Read Full Review »
• [+] Mr. Showbiz
  
  60
  It's good enough, smart enough, and people will like it. It's also a high-concept cop-out, a convention-strangled genre movie that never zigs when your every instinct is screaming that it's about to zag.

  by Cody Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
  60
  A disappointingly pedestrian prison meller that falls between stools artistically and politically.

  by Todd McCarthy | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  58
  This is, after all, not just Robert Redford. It's Redford in the nobly burnished self-mythologic perfection of his late-middle-aged golden god-ness.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  50
  They may call it The Last Castle, but moviegoers will ultimately feel rooked.

  by Claudia Puig | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  50
  The movie is exuberant, strapping and obvious -- a problem drama suffering from a steroid overdose.

  by A.O. Scott | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
  50
  Often feels choppy, as if chunks of connecting narrative had been lopped off in the editing room.

  by Rene Rodriguez | Read Full Review »