Bill Paxton Movie:

Editorial Review:
Painted in mile-wide strokes of black satirical comedy, The Last Supper turns intolerance into a parlor trick, then repeats it ad nauseam in case we missed the joke. Still, redundancy can be fun when applied to the premeditated murder of right-wing extremists by self-righteous left-wing zealots; director Stacy Title is an equal-opportunity offender, never taking sides. The grisly high jinks commence when a truck-driving, child-molesting, Hitler-loving ex-Marine (Bill Paxton, acing the role) is accidentally killed while dining with a clutch of snobby liberal grad students, played with uniform excellence by Cameron Diaz (showing early promise), Ron Eldard, Courtney B. Vance, Annabeth Gish, and coproducer Jonathan Penner. Having acquired a taste for blood, the wine-poisoning liberals stage "last suppers" with hand-picked targets (Charles Durning, Mark Harmon, Jason Alexander, and ultimately Ron Perlman), eventually attracting a suspicious sheriff (fine work by SNL alumnus Nora Dunn). It's got all the subtlety of a pile-driver, but The Last Supper craftily defends free speech by exposing its most vicious violations. --Jeff Shannon

The Last Supper [Region 2] Reviews:
Black humor at it's best...
2008-01-07 - I love the whole idea of the story (which is completely unrealistic) but found the story end wanting for something... Good nonetheless.

liberals decide death
2007-12-07 - The title, The Last Supper, is why I decided to buy it after reading the reviews. Dark humor has bleeding-heart save-the-whales liberals decide that the opposite would help society. Relevant to what we have in the news today: who would take the chance to change history using deadly force, believing that it would never be known: Arsenic and Old Lace amongst friends, who disagree, watch each other's actions with surprise, and find that it's within each as to what choices are made. Buy both to watch the dark humor of 1944 compared to 1996.

Quite possbily the dumbest, most unrealistic movie ever made.
2007-06-25 - Hard to watch since you could drive a semi through the plot holes, and the ending should have been so obvious to the main characters.

Plus, NO ONE ever told their friends where they were going for dinner?

Just a terrible movie through and through.

The Last Supper
2007-03-10 - Excellent movie with a wonderful reversal at the end. Good for its sociopolitical rammifications

great little film
2006-12-17 - To express it in non-American political terms:

The movie revolves around 1990s students who, being middle-class with some conscience, agonize and cannot decide if they are good liberals or genuine leftists. By killing people who express morally and socially repressive views, they think that they have found a solution. Nevertheless, they are firmly stuck within the ideology of individualism (hence, the initial naive, or even stupid premise that if you eliminated Hitler, fascism would not have come about).

Finally, they are tricked and killed by a wily demagogue who, being himself a liberal in the 19th c sense (ie he does not advocate monarchy and accepts the trappings of a liberal democracy such as parliaments and elections), poses the same question that has crippled the US left for most of the century: free speech (notably, the movie does not problematize big media -- it's all an individual choice, right?).

You could argue the Clintonite intelligentsia lefty-liberal students get what they deserve from a fellow liberal on the rightist side of the spectrum. This is what makes the movie so amusing and appealing to all kinds of American liberals, whether on the left or on the right: is it a tragedy, a comedy or a farce?

We'll see the next round of this game in 2008, folks...and it won't be for the better of most of us, especially for the conservative pinkoes among us.