Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Gutsycurene Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

alexgperez How does something this bad get made? The plot is simplistic and predictable, the characters one dimensional and clichéd (single working mum with disabled kid, rich corporate mole who drives like she owns the world). The camera is so jerky it made me sick. This technique has only worked for the Blair Witch, and nothing else.A women's Falling Down, not bloody likely. D-Fens would be rolling over his watery grave.And these positive reviews that have been posted - film crew anyone? The only realistic aspect of this garbage is how women drivers are depicted. Now there's the real drama.

johno-21 This has become a staple on the Lifetime Movie Channel since it first aired in 2006 and for a good reason as it's a pretty good movie. For most of it anyway. Beth Welland (Kathleen Robertson) is a clerk in a law firm and a single mother raising a handicapped son and trying to make ends meets. Diana Burke (Andrea Roth) juggles family life and a career as a married mother of two and a successful advertising executive. Beth misses her exit off the freeway driving to work one day due to a combination of being inattentive in her driving and Diana being to assertive in her driving. So begins a chain of events that snowballs into the ultimate day of stress for Beth and concluding when Diana and Beth's paths cross again at the end of the day. The film cuts back and forth to Beth and Diana as we follow them through their day. Robertson is compelling as the stressed out Beth whose day just keeps getting worse. John Fawcett directs. Excellent camera work from cinematographer Norayr Kasper with a tense music soundtrack by Mike Shields and superb editing by Brett Sullivan. I was with this movie until it's highly implausible climax. (SPOILER ALERT) Diana has a pistol (convienantly loaded) that her son had brought to school earlier in the day. Diana was called to the school and given the gun which she put in her center counsel of her Jeep. Beth recognizes Diana as the driver who cut her off earlier in the day when Beth's car breaks down later in the day. As traffic backs up Beth approaches Diana's car and starts smashing it. At this point Diana could have reached for the gun and simply pointed it at her attacker Beth who is outside her vehicle and Beth would have backed off and that would have been that. Instead Beth continues to pummel Diana's Jeep until Diana can weave out of the backed up traffic and split. Beth's car is now working again so she begins a high speed pursuit. Diana loses control of her Jeep and it rolls over before coming to a stop on it's roof. Everything in the car would have been widely scattered about and Diana is strapped in her seat belt upside down, severely injured and on the verge of losing consciousness but yet manages to find the pistol and fire off a shot at Beth as Beth approaches Diana's wreck to administer aid instead of havoc. I realize they were going for an ending with a twist but this was a little far fetched. The whole movie was a little far fetched for that matter but it was a great ride with tension you could cut with a knife throughout. I would give it a 7.0 out of 10 but with a more plausible climax I would have rated it higher.

Vomitron_G Director John Fawcett previously brought us the first GINGER SNAPS and THE DARK (the one with Maria Bello). Two movies I happen to like. LAST EXIT is a quite different film, but turned out a pretty solid viewing experience. Two unrelated women, portrayed by Andrea Roth and Kathleen Robertson (who finally has the chance to prove she can carry a film with a semi-leading role), are involved in a nasty car crash. The whole film consist out of flash-backs, illustrating the events leading up to the crash. LAST EXIT starts off a bit slow, but gradually Fawcett ups the pace and things get worse and worse for our two leading ladies (and thus: more interesting for the viewer).Fawcett sets his story in a crowded, hectic city and handles a more "realistic" visual language (loose camera work from the shoulder, faster editing), so it's a bit of a break from his more stylised work in films like THE DARK and maybe requires getting a little used to at first. Nevertheless, this made-for-TV film really is worth a watch and proof that a lot of TV work these days can easily compete with theatrical releases. A decent story, a good director and fine actors work wonders sometimes. Fawcett and writer Russ Cochrane even managed to come up with a solid denouement (for which I was fearing, but ungrounded as it turned out). Check out LAST EXIT; it should leave you satisfied at the end of the ride.

kikioreekee-1 THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS-I was in complete shock at how well done and suspenseful this film is. Both actresses deliver the goods- Andrea Toth (of Rescue Me) and Kathleen Robertson both are perfectly cast as the Career Woman and the Single Mother who meet in a very disturbing way. Within the 2 hours of the film, we live a 24 hour period in both of their lives concurrently. Andrea is an Ad Exec with huge pressure to perform in her career as well as home- her husband is unemployed and she has 2 teenage children to support, and another on the way. As viewers, we can plainly see that she is completely preoccupied 100% of the time. She is up for a promotion and today is the day she must give a presentation that will make or break her promotion to VP.Kathleen is a single mom living in a small apartment right off the freeway, raising her child, who is in a wheelchair. Her car is on the fritz, and she has no money to spare. She works as a lawyers assistant and everything in her life seems to go wrong. When we meet her today, she is late to work and isn't there to receive a affidavit her boss needs for court that day. He demands she go get the document- and she ends up having to run for blocks and blocks to catch up with the bicycle messenger. She finally gets the document only to return to work to be fired. At her wits end, she pawns her necklace to buy her child a birthday present. When she goes to meet her ex and her child for birthday dinner, her ex threatens to take her son away. As the viewer, you can literally feel the pressure in your chest, watching this woman's world crumble.Andrea, meanwhile, is called back to her sons school during her hectic day because he has taken one of his father's antique guns to school. She cant get her husband on the phone, so she takes her son home. She then sees her husband pull up with his golf clubs in the back of the car. Again, as a viewer- you can identify with the frustration. She returns to a job site where an ad is being shot, and her car is towed. She then fails to get to the important client meeting and loses the promotion. When she finds out all the flights out of the airport are delayed, she makes the unwise decision to get to the client at the airport.Throughout the entire film, the two main characters are weaving in and out of each others lives- all while desperately trying to be Super People Who Get Things Done Without Help. First Andrea cuts Kathleen off on the freeway in the morning, causing the lateness that makes her miss the document delivery. Then the commercial being shot makes Kathleen unable to return to work with the document on time. Andrea's problems with her son at school cause her to be absentminded enough to park in a tow away zone- therefore losing the client. Kathleens car stalls once again at the end, this time with Andrea behind her trying to get to the airport. Kathleen recognizes Andrea as the woman who caused the delay in the morning, and in a Falling Down moment, confronts Andrea who is still in her car. She then proceeds to bash the SUV with the telescope she had purchased with the money from pawn. Andrea floors it in fear- and Kathleen follows in hot pursuit. They have a nightmarish accident, which is shown throughout the story in pieces, without giving anything away.At the end, we discover that after the accident, Kathleen attempts to help Andrea out of her SUV in the pouring rain. At that time, Andrea pulls the antique gun and shoots Kathleen in the chest. They are both taken to the hospital and Andrea lives, while Kathleen does not.Claiming self defense, Andrea will go to trial for the shooting- but she did not lose the baby, although she lost part of one of her legs. She then vows to spend more time on things that matter. It was devastating to see the impact of road rage and frustration from the day to day pressures we all suffer. So many things loom large when we cant step away from them and see them clearly. This story is a perfect example of that, and the actresses are both superb.