Last Man Standing (1996 film)

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Last Man Standing is a 1996 action film written and directed by Walter Hill. It is a credited remake of the Akira Kurosawa film Yojimbo, which itself is believed to be based on Dashiell Hammett's novel Red Harvest, and also remade by Sergio Leone with Clint Eastwood in A Fistful of Dollars. The film stars Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken and Bruce Dern. The film features over-the-top gunfights where people are literally lifted off their feet from the impact of bullets. These scenes usually feature Bruce Willis wielding two M1911 .45-caliber pistols, with a seemingly endless number of magazine available for reloading.

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Bruce Willis in the title role

The film is set during the era of Prohibition in the United States, in which Willis plays a wandering gunman who decides to play off both sides of a gang war that takes place in the violence-riddled town of Jericho, Texas.

The film was a complete flop at the box-office and received dismal critical reviews. Film critic Roger Ebert was quoted as saying, "...The victory at the end is downbeat, and there is an indifference to it. This is such a sad, lonely movie."

A Last Man Standing drinking game was developed in Minnesota by some college buddies around 2000. The game is widely considered the "Super Bowl of Drinking Games". The game consists of taking a shot of Jim Beam Burbon (chased with apple juice) whenever Bruce Willis takes a drink throughout the movie (somewhere between 14-20 shots in roughly an hour and a half). Participants of the game are encouraged to dress up in goofy outfits before the game starts thus turning themselves into more of a scene later on after the game when they go into their local watering hole. It should be noted that no one is encouraged to partake in said game.

External links

• Last Man Standing at IMDb