Robert Redford

James Gandolfini

Mark Ruffalo

Delroy Lindo

Clifton Collins Jr.

Robin Wright

Kristen Shaw

Paul Calderon

Brian Goodman

Steve Burton

Sam Ball

Jeremy Childs

George W. Scott

Steve Sandfort

Michael Irby

Frank Military

Nick Kokich

David Alford

Dean Hall

Peg Allen

Rick Vito

Maurice Bullard

Forrest D. Bradford

Scott Michael

Dean Miller

Michael Q. Davis

Joe Keenan

David Chattam

Dan Cole

Hans Mooy

James-Justone-Thomas

Jamie Roberto Mantecon

Jeffery G. Fagan

Lyon Fleming

Darius Willis

Rico Moody

Rocky Abou-Sakher

Sean Cameron

Mary Jean Bentley

Michael Dinwiddie

Karen Espenant

Michelle Way

Graham Yost

Deborah Aquila

Jerry Goldsmith

Lawrence A. Hubbs

Daniel Loren May

Rod Lurie

Tom Waits

Kirk M. Petruccelli

Mary Jo Slater

Shelly Johnson

Michael Jablow

Eloise Crane Stammerjohn

Kevin Stitt

David Scarpa

Tim Trella

Bill Richards

Jo Doster

Kim Petrosky

Tricia Wood

Danny Wynands

Scott Workman

Robby Robinson

Jennifer L. Smith

Jason Rodriguez

Kim McCray

David Walling

Chris Tuck

Marcus Salgado

Mic Rodgers

Nicole Sage

Cooper Taylor

Michael Runyard

Danny Rogers

Jimmy N. Roberts

Matthew Taylor

Jalon Raney

John C. Meier

Kanin Howell

Eddy Donno

Steven Chambers

Tony Brubaker

Greg Martin

Clay M. Lilley

Gary Guercio

Tim Gilbert

Jacob Chambers

Chuck 'Chaz' Hosack

Don Zepfel

Kevin L. Jackson

Khristian Lupo

Tom Pearl

Peewee Piemonte

Kenny Endoso

Henry Kingi Jr.

Kenny Alexander

Tom Morga

Tommy J. Huff

Ha Nguyen

Casey O'Neill

Bennie Moore

Gene LeBell

Gene Hartline

Gregory J. Barnett

Bobby McLaughlin

Eddie Braun

Robert Lawrence

Tad Griffith

Action

Drama

Thriller

The Last Castle

DreamWorks Pictures

Robert Lawrence Productions

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Robert Redford is "Irwin", a disgraced general sent to a military prison after his court-martial for disobeying orders during an operation in Africa that led to the death of eight under his command. Almost immediately he and the commandant "Winter" (James Gandolfini) take against each other and what now ensues is a gradual positioning of both men for a contretemps. The former man, initially, just wants to do his time - but as he sees the arbitrary and sometimes lethal fashion in which the place is run, he is soon working with the 1200 other inmates to create an effective unit than can resist, perhaps even overthrow, the regime. The first half hour of this is quite well developed, battle lines are drawn as the two men play a game of intellectual chess. Sadly, though, that momentum descends quite quickly into a rather far-fetched drama that featuresd a plot riddled with holes, some totally implausible incidents and in the end, a denouement that has something of the pantomime to it. Redford adopts a less is more approach to his role which he carries off adequately with little dialogue - indeed, pretty much little of anything. Gandolfini is, however, completely unconvincing as a senior officer who appears to have little humanity or grasp on the reality of the scenarios presented to us by Rod Lurie. Clifton Collins Jr offers the best effort from amongst the cast with his portrayal of the troubled "Aguilar", but I couldn't quite make out just what the role of the duplicitous "Yates" (Mark Ruffalo) was meant to represent - maybe I had just given up by then. I reckon this might have made for a decent read; allowing us to inject character traits into what personalities are on offer here using our own imagination. As a piece of cinema, however, it is little more than a vehicle for a star who is nowhere near his best working with a story that stretched my imagination just a bit too far for far too long.

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