Rotten
[Writer-director] Caleo isn't able to sell The Last Time -- not the affair and especially not the ludicrous twist ending.
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Overview
Ted Ryker is the top salesman in the New York office of a business machine company; the corporate stock lives by quarterly sales numbers, the competition is keen, and the economy may be in a downturn. Ted's company is marking time until a new product is ready – probably in a few months. Into the mix comes a new hire, a callow Midwesterner named Jamie, who's come East with his fiancée Belisa.
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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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35%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Feels like a script that was written backwards, as if the twist ending occurred to [writer-director] Caleo first and he then filled out a story to get to it. Fair enough, except getting there in this case is just no fun.
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
Rotten
Strives for contemporary noir in tone but feels closer to an ineffective parody of James M. Cain filtered through faux David Mamet dialogue.
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
While his cast is first-rate, director-writer Michael Caleo doesn't know quite what his movie is about.
John Anderson, Newsday
Rotten
For all the good work that went into it, the movie is as phony as a game of three-card monte.
Rex Reed, New York Observer
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