Review of The Last Supper (1995) by Josh G — 24 May 2008

You can tell the characters aren't lying about being grad students because even Cameron Diaz throws out the word "puerile" like she knows what it means. So why would otherwise 'intelligent' people decide so easily that they should kill their dinner guests if their politics don't agree with them?

I guess this movie is supposed to be a comedy, so the yuk-yuks take precedence over drama. It's unfortunate that the filmmakers couldn't have found a better way to blend the two together. The way it stands, the first murder barely makes an impression. We were all expecting it: hell, it's the plot of the movie. And then the kids pretty easily come to the conclusion that they should continue this exercise, and then... so what? Do I care about these characters? They're hardly even characters. We don't really get to know any of them, save for the knowledge that a) they're all liberal, b) the guy and girl who sit on the right are apparently going out, c) the geeky one on the left shoots a gun for some reason.

So when ultra-conservative Ron Perlman ends up at the dinner table, and then inexplicably turns out to be the most moderate character there... why do I even bother worrying about how the protagonists will react?

Ron Perlman and Bill Paxton both served as great bookends for what is otherwise little more than a direct-to-DVD movie that has already been pretty much forgotten.