Do not get too invested in any storyline within Dennis Hopper's THE LAST MOVIE or you will be left entirely frustrated. Instead, enjoy it as the head trip that it is. Hopper's follow-up to EASY RIDER redefines self-indulgence and enters some other realm...one in which an artist has run amok with Universal Pictures money and brought together a lot of his friends to help out. Hopper plays Kansas, a stuntman working on a western in Peru who decides to stay on after the movies crew departs. He hooks up with local whore Stella Garcia, meets up with crusading priest Tomas Milian and attempts to help his friend find a gold mine. There's no real narrative, but plenty of beautiful imagery (thanks to cinematographer László Kovács) and some early 70s ballads on the soundtrack. Hopper & Garcia have great chemistry and it's fun to spot the likes of Severn Darden, Dean Stockwell, Michelle Phillips and Sylvia Miles peppered in cameos throughout. Samuel Fuller plays himself, directing the film within a film.
Review of The Last Movie
