The movie explores the life and machinations of the troubled movie producer Monroe Stahr (Robert DeNiro), who is hailed as a 'boy genius' during the studio system of 1930s Hollywood.
The movie is full of echoes. We watch it as if at a far remove from what's happening, but that too is appropriate: Fitzgerald was writing history as it happened.
Spirituality and Practice
January 18, 2004
An exquisite screen interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel on Hollywood during the Thirties
Interessante na maior parte do tempo, o filme acaba sendo prejudicado pela fraca subtrama romântica e pelo final medíocre (adaptar um livro inacabado pode ser má idéia).
Combustible Celluloid
September 26, 2008
Kazan's rigid directing kills the spontaneity of nearly every cast member.
Out of place and not quite interesting enough to hold our attention, which is a disappointment, because it has many of the elements that can make for greatness.
The Last Tycoon is an intriguing entry to the period gangster genre that depicts the weight of triad influence in 1930s Shanghai at the cusp of war with an invading Japan.
Producer Sam Spiegel's contribution is admirable, but Elia Kazan's direction of the Pinter plot seems unfocussed though craftsmanlike. Robert De Niro's performance as the inscrutable boy-wonder of films is mildly intriguing.
