Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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VividSimon Simply Perfect

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

tedg This business of folded narrative is never so poignant as when the situations of real life are layered into a film. If you come to this just for the fictitious thread and literal presentation, you will be disappointed. It just doesn't have juice. We have an hour and a half of repetitious angst with no change, no new angles. Things just plod.There is some nice dancing by extras playing the troupe and these sections are lighted creatively. When we see the three main characters, they are dance-acting, showing emotion associated with the story.But if you encompass the whole, and allow for three layers (the real life of the actors, the story of the movie and the "story" in the dance), then you have something so endearing it hurts.We have Swayze and his wife. They met as teens in his mother's dance studio, married and have lived a partnership within the context of dance. They clearly love each other, and do so within a physical language that is partly public, but which has decades of secret motions, seeded and harvested.After a long marriage, she decides to make a film. It is a valentine for her man. It is a celebration of a relationship in dance. It is — I believe — to satisfy the desire to perform their love, not so that anyone need see it, but because the private intercourse demands it.So what does she do? She writes a story about aging dancers, estranged lovers who have conflated their fears and desires for dancing with their fears and desires for each other. As they dance, they reconnect in the love. The name of the difficult dance they are revisiting is heavily named "Without a Word." It is a simple, pure, lovely idea, and it touched me deeply. The idea.These are not good actors. They are good dancers but not great ones. Many scenes have them pretending to be better dances than they actually are but hobbled by age so the moves are more clumsy than they can achieve. It is a strange acting challenge and I suggest the movie has merits on this score alone.It also is an entry in my list of films where the director is in love with the main actor. Usually, it is an older man and a hypnotically beautiful younger woman in the early, obsessive stages of romance. This is quite, quite different.Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.

Neil Welch I'm not really the best person to be voicing an opinion on this film. I bought it as a birthday present for my wife, who is both a dance fan and a Patrick Swayze fan, and she was, I think, pleased. She found it interesting, and very much liked the fact that it contained a lot of dancing, and it was dancing that you could actually watch. Also, the dancing was ballet-style modern dancing, and that's also a style she liked. So, on that level, it has to be marked a success.Me, I'm going to call it "The Patrick Swayze Dancing and Loud Shouting Movie." It seemed to comprise two elements - dancing (where, as noted, I'm not the best person to voice judgement as I don't normally care much for dancing, and this was no exception) and a soapy kind of plot to hang the dancing on where, I feel, I am entitled to voice my thoughts.I didn't think much of it. There was obviously something which had gone on at some point in the past between Swayze's and Niemi's characters, but it was kept a mystery until very late, and neither of them was able or prepared to actually communicate with the other about what was wrong (in much the same way as Peter Parker and Mary Jane in Spider-Man 3 where, come to think of it, there was also some dancing I didn't care for). So this bit of the movie annoyed me intensely - I just wanted to slap both of them.So, all in all, a successful birthday present for herself, but not a successful viewing for myself.

de-111 I enjoyed One Last Dance based on the play Without A Word, which is a perfect description for this independent drama - a celebration of contemporary dance in America. Independent film is huge today. Lucky for us! Here, so much is communicated without a word; dance is central, the plot, not sacrificed but secondary. This film lingers without languishing, it draws you in. Emotionally charged, it captivates - truly a thing of artistic beauty! See this film if you love to watch dance. See it if you dance. See it if you want to feel the movement, the heartbeat, the spirit of a dancer. It is a love story. The most delightful unexpectedly tender moments for me were between parent and child. Kudos to the Director, and don't pass up the insightful commentary on the DVD!

jmparker-4 Patrick Swayze can be compared to the likes of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly--he can dance AND act! Many of us who are Patrick,Lisa, and George's "chronological" peers love them for their unbelievable dance ability; but we may hate them for being in such great shape! How refreshing to see a movie about dance that showed splendid dancing-and lots of it. I'm so tired of movies that just "touch" on dance and delve into the sob-story, high hormonal problems of teen dancers. One of the things I appreciated about this movie was that it was sensual but not sexual. Really, everything is NOT about sex.My ONLY gripe is some of the language-I'd like to show this movie to some young people who are just starting to dance, because of the focus on FEELING the dance. I'll wager that many young dancers that show up on unnamed TV shows couldn't keep up with Patrick, Lisa, and George AND do it with the grace and style that the three of them exhibited. Give us more please!