To me, this movie is perfection.

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Last Chance Harvey is a decent movie with a reasonably well written plot and a great cast. One thing that certainly took me away with this movie was the undeniable chemistry between Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson, it was very natural, it was clear they knew each other for a long time. However, their relationship and the majority of the plot is extremely cliché. Every development in the story is predictable, you can tell what is going to happen from a mile away, it never did anything to surprise and was afraid to take any risks. For such a straight forward story, it could have done with a sense of humour, which there really is none of, it takes itself very seriously, to a degree that it seems to think its more than what it is. Predictable and somewhat pretentious, there are a million other movies like Last Chance Harvey, while Hoffman and Thompson's performances are charming, it is not enough to recommend this. While visiting London for his daughter's wedding, a man's faith in love is restored after meeting a kind woman at an airport. Best Performance: Dustin Hoffman

Two people, completely out of place with their own life find each other on London. That's the premise of the movie.Aside from the cliché moments, this movie starts really slow and depressing. Harvey is set out to play into a very unpleasant meeting with her daughter and his fiancée in party before their marriage.Harvey is devastated by the cold feeling the whole family has with him and this really gets to the viewer, let me say that even when Harvey meets Kate after the very depressing first part, the movie does not have the "up-beat" we should be expecting, somehow, the whole tone for the movie is downright depressing and this is even with the nice music that is played in the background all the time. The whole idea and story is short and simple, the acting is OK but, being a fan of Huffman and Thomson myself, this is not their best performances, not by a long mile.The movie may be classified as a romantic drama but the tone feels like just a drama,it develops slow, emotions are toned down and Harvey's life is miserable, somehow, Kate does not bring the light we're all hoping for and this is the director's fault.Sadly, the balance for the movie is OK, not nice, just OK, not Oscar material, not even very good.A drama trying so hard to be romantic and somehow failing at it. With the two first class actors and a script designed for them, this is unforgivable.6 out of 10

Last Chance Harvey is a romantic story of a music writer who happens to travel to London for his daughter wedding. Now he is just out of place, being a divorcée and having to meet his ex-wife and her present husband among other relatives at the wedding, but it was his only daughter and he was doing this for her even though he feels he's not welcome and also tries to go back to New York to work on his new assignment and finds out he was replaced by a new team of music producers, and so he is now also out of job, finds that he can make fun of himself and also of the person near to him, just for fun, when the stranger is an airline host played by Emma Thompson the actress and she makes Harvey played by Dustin Hoffman to feel he has to apologize to her, and so they start talking and a relationship develops with a happy ending.

"Last Chance Harvey" is, to me, a chance to see two great actors at work. That's it. That's all. It's an exhibition game, a free-skate, and it's a movie to be simply enjoyed, not analyzed.The great Dustin Hoffman here plays a middle-aged man, estranged from his ex-wife and adult daughter, estranged from his boss and industry, estranged from life. The enemy in this movie- though never explicitly stated- is mortality. The threat of death is what motivates Harvey to start a relationship with British spinster Kate, played by Emma Thompson. The movie does nicely parallel the true pattern of the aging baby-boomer generation... while only thirty years ago the thought of dating and marrying at age forty, fifty, sixty and beyond was unthinkable today it is commonplace. They are a generation that has never made peace with their own mortality and their solution is to become eternal teenagers.But back to the movie: the joy here is watching Hoffman and Thompson court and spark, enjoying themselves at a wedding and falling in love as they get to know one another. Dustin is so great an actor I could watch him read the phone book, and as usual he never hits a false note. Emma Thompson is good too, walking the fine line between tragic and pathetic, and it's great watching Kate awaken as Harvey spends his time on her.Okay, the plot doesn't offer much. Harvey's interactions with his ex and daughter put me in a coma, and his heart attack seemed contrived and anticlimactic. After all, just because he missed his park date with Kate doesn't mean he'll never see her again- he knows where she works for God's sake! But as I said before, this movie is not about plot... it's about hope, the hope that it's never too late to change your life or to find true love. Isn't that a very fine idea for a movie?GRADE: B-