Written by Luke Barnes
Last Chancers is a British crime comedy film directed by Phil Stubbs. The plot sees two friend Flynn (Ellis J. Wells) and Aiden (Harry Dyer) become indebted to an old school nasty after a hapless mistake, together they must come up with a way out of their situation.
There is something of an early Guy Ritchie with this film, though obviously with more of a comedic leaning, it is a stylistic decision that greatly helps this film and allows it to feel snappy and sharp and more importantly slick.
Though the premise was nothing new, I though it was done well, and it served to be quite entertaining. The film wasn’t a laugh out loud, laugh a minute kind of film but it did have more than enough moments that made me chuckle or at least smile.
I think the film mainly gets its tone right, managing to mix dramatic tension with levity. The tone does skew to one extreme a few times at the expense of the other, which hurts the film, but does not happen often.
My main issue with this film is that I think it needs to be tighter. This is a good film, by and large however, it really suffers from bloat and quite a few scenes could do with being chopped down to better add to the flow.
Overall, despite a few structural problems there is a lot of promise to this film, and I would be excited to see what the filmmaker does next.
Pros.
The comedy, for the most part works
The premise is well executed
Moments of early Guy Ritchie
Cons.
Slight tonal issues
Pacing problems
4/5
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