ONE LAST NIGHT

ONE LAST NIGHT ROM COM

Film Review by FIORE

Regular viewers of my award-winning film criticism TV show know I’m not a fan of romantic comedies.  They are the most cliched template plots in Tinseltown.  Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl again.  The Indie flick ONE LAST NIGHT, follows the same pattern, but I can say I made it to the end due to the film’s construction.  At the mid-point of ONE LAST NIGHT, the movie appears over.  Three act drama contained in the time it takes for a TV show.  Then, the film continues on a completely different, though tangent track for another 45 minutes.  Romantic comedies haven’t had original twists since BRINGING UP BABY featured a leopard and a dinosaur bone, but the obscure about face in ONE LAST NIGHT provides enough curiosity to allow even an old cynic like me to watch until the credits roll.

Written and Directed by Anthony Sabet, ONE LAST NIGHT concerns a first date between Alex and Zoe, played by Luke Brandon Field (another of the increasingly annoying three-named people) and Rachele Schank.  Their planned movie date turns horrendous when they attend a theatre ruled by a rude, dim-witted concession worker (Ali Cobrin) and a security guard with a Rambo complex (Brian Baumgartner).  After the disastrous first date, the two embark on a business venture with the same loonies who ruined the date.

The script is a vignette.  It never delineates the couple’s origins, nor the result of their business venture or romance.  As such, both tales leave loose ends for a sequel that is unmerited.

ONE LAST NIGHT has the feel of an Indie film.  Lighting is flat, and cinematography is yeoman in texture.  Still, the abrupt shift in the film will pique your interest and help make this mundane genre watchable.