The Last Shot

Two stars. Disappointing.

FBI agent Joe Devine (Alec Baldwin) hits on the idea of posing as a movie producer to mount a sting operation against a mafia racket. Under false pretenses, he recruits Hollywood hopeful writer Steven Schats (Matthew Broderick), and then gets so wrapped up in the process of actually making the film, that he almost fogets about catching the bad guys. It's a great cast (Tony Shalhoub, Tim Blake Nelson, Toni Collette, Ray Liotta, and more) but they're all wasted on a poor screenplay. It doesn't really work as a comedy, because it's not very funny. And as a touching film about hope and ambitious movie-loving spirit, it doesn't have enough heart.