The Last Supper
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Release Date: 24/02/2003
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
A group of friends ponder the question of whether it is morally justifiable to murder a person who could be responsible for atrocities in later life; if one could travel back in time, would one murder the young Adolf Hitler? One evening, an unexpected visitor sparks them into taking action. Soon, the friends are offering poisoned wine to any dinner guest who strikes them as morally or politically dubious. Initially killing in the belief that they are safeguarding the future, events soon get out of hand.
AMAZON REVIEW
Painted in mile-wide strokes of black satirical comedy, The Last Supper turns intolerance into a parlour trick, then repeats it ad nauseam in case we missed the joke. Still, redundancy can be fun when applied to the pre-meditated 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 co-producer 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