The Last Castle

Starring: Redford, Robert and Gandolfini, James

Product Description

Robert Redford stars in this action drama as General Irwin, a respected three-star tactician whose career ends in disgrace when he's court-martialed and sent to The Castle, a maximum security military prison. Irwin quickly butts heads with the facility's autocratic warden, Colonel Winter (James Gandolfini), who runs his command with an iron fist, even killing prisoners when he deems it necessary. Irwin rallies his fellow convicts into a rag-tag army and leads them in a revolt against Winter, an action that the warden is ready to repel by violent means. Mark Ruffalo, Robin Wright Penn, and Delroy Lindo co-star in this Dreamworks production, the third feature film from one-time film critic Rod Lurie.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 667068987027
• Release Date: January 2001
• Rating: R
• Publisher: Paramount Home Video
• Director: Lurie, Rod
• Starring: Redford, Robert, Gandolfini, James
• Runtime: 2 hours, 13 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"
• Age Range: 17 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

The director, Rod Lurie, voice-over does rings around the movie itself.

The movie is well done for a formulaic conflict between leaders. Some leaders are born, and some leaders are made. The leaders that are born will survive. I am not a fan of prison movies, but this one has a twist being military. I am not a fan of movies that are too much Redfordized, as he changes many of the basic story concepts and points from books. Redford acts more than modifies in this production. Redford even carries real rocks. He does get a chance to make an “Ayn Rand” type speech about halfway in. Be sure to listen to the voiceover that shows what they are trying to accomplish. Being formulaic, you pretty much know what is going to happen. The fun in the movie is watching them do it. Good actors, good characters, good scenes, etc. If you want to see a real conflict of leadership or authority, then you need to watch Iliad movies like “Troy” (2004). Or better still, read the story.