Strong performances save 'Last Orders'
Film
"Last Orders" occupies the ambiguous space between life and death, following three men as they reminisce about their late friend Jack Dodds (Michael Caine). Unfortunately, the film captures neither state with the thoroughness and passion it deserves.
Nonetheless, writer-director Frank Schepisi is blessed with a talented ensemble of British actors who recall Jack's life with fiercely vital nostalgia and lament his death with muted yet powerful emotion. Despite the rushed storytelling -- perhaps inevitable in an adaptation of Graham Swift's 300-page novel -- the cast of "Last Orders"...
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