You won't be disappointed!

Sorry, this movie sucks

Overrated and overhyped

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Beth Welland (Kathleen Robertson) and Diana Burke (Andrea Roth) get into a car crash on a rainy night. The movie flashes back to see the two women and their hectic day. Beth is a flustered single mom to her disabled son. She struggles as problems pile on. Diana is a high power career woman with an unemployed husband and tight money problems. Both run each other on the road until Beth has enough.There is nothing terribly wrong but I never got invested in these characters. The back and forth between the two women does very little to build drama because I'm simply waiting for the final 15 minutes. This could have been a female version of "Falling Down" if it follows only Beth. In the end, the movie falters in the middle until some interesting reveals for the closing.

Against a gritty urban landscape, Last Exit follows a single day in the lives of Beth Welland and Diana Burke, two mothers following two seemingly different paths. Beth (Kathleen Robertson) is a single mother to Benji, a young boy confined to a wheelchair and their cramped apartment overlooking an expressway. While Beth seems to take it all in stride, a growing desperation lurks beneath her sunny disposition. For Diana (Andrea Roth), a married mother of two with a highly successful career in advertising, life is all about keeping everybody else happy amidst the growing anxiety that she may be in over her head. In the oppressive heat of an urban summer, the lives of these two women have violently collided. And, as police officers race to their uncertain rescue, parallel flashbacks gradually bring the shards of a shattered puzzle back into focus, providing the truthful and deeply unsettling causes for the tragic effects. What ensues will change both women, together with the people they love, completely and for the rest of their lives. The film had me on the edge of my seat the entire time and I found myself deeply changed by the experience. Beth and Diana's struggle stayed with me for days and more than once, and had a profound impact on my attitude and actions when I'm behind the wheel. If you've ever experienced the frustration of daily commuting through a congested urban centre, you will relate. Last Exit is a definite must-see.

This movie actually surprised me. Multiple (well, actually just two, but who's counting?) converging threads and camera work like the "24" series combined with a realistic every-day storyline. Finally. You can actually feel the frustration in the main characters building up to right out rage. Trying to do the "right" thing, trapped in a situation they really cannot control. After endless processions of movies, where the main (supposedly intelligent) characters do the exactly wrong thing at the exactly wrong time... Someone actually had the frackin ingenious idea of showing what happens, if you're a real person in that exact situation. Why on earth did that take this long? It somehow makes you wonder, why this one never hit the box office. Maybe it's too macabre for the mainstream public. 00.

THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS-I was in complete shock at how well done and suspenseful this film is. Both actresses deliver the goods- Andrea Toth (of Rescue Me) and Kathleen Robertson both are perfectly cast as the Career Woman and the Single Mother who meet in a very disturbing way. Within the 2 hours of the film, we live a 24 hour period in both of their lives concurrently. Andrea is an Ad Exec with huge pressure to perform in her career as well as home- her husband is unemployed and she has 2 teenage children to support, and another on the way. As viewers, we can plainly see that she is completely preoccupied 100% of the time. She is up for a promotion and today is the day she must give a presentation that will make or break her promotion to VP.Kathleen is a single mom living in a small apartment right off the freeway, raising her child, who is in a wheelchair. Her car is on the fritz, and she has no money to spare. She works as a lawyers assistant and everything in her life seems to go wrong. When we meet her today, she is late to work and isn't there to receive a affidavit her boss needs for court that day. He demands she go get the document- and she ends up having to run for blocks and blocks to catch up with the bicycle messenger. She finally gets the document only to return to work to be fired. At her wits end, she pawns her necklace to buy her child a birthday present. When she goes to meet her ex and her child for birthday dinner, her ex threatens to take her son away. As the viewer, you can literally feel the pressure in your chest, watching this woman's world crumble.Andrea, meanwhile, is called back to her sons school during her hectic day because he has taken one of his father's antique guns to school. She cant get her husband on the phone, so she takes her son home. She then sees her husband pull up with his golf clubs in the back of the car. Again, as a viewer- you can identify with the frustration. She returns to a job site where an ad is being shot, and her car is towed. She then fails to get to the important client meeting and loses the promotion. When she finds out all the flights out of the airport are delayed, she makes the unwise decision to get to the client at the airport.Throughout the entire film, the two main characters are weaving in and out of each others lives- all while desperately trying to be Super People Who Get Things Done Without Help. First Andrea cuts Kathleen off on the freeway in the morning, causing the lateness that makes her miss the document delivery. Then the commercial being shot makes Kathleen unable to return to work with the document on time. Andrea's problems with her son at school cause her to be absentminded enough to park in a tow away zone- therefore losing the client. Kathleens car stalls once again at the end, this time with Andrea behind her trying to get to the airport. Kathleen recognizes Andrea as the woman who caused the delay in the morning, and in a Falling Down moment, confronts Andrea who is still in her car. She then proceeds to bash the SUV with the telescope she had purchased with the money from pawn. Andrea floors it in fear- and Kathleen follows in hot pursuit. They have a nightmarish accident, which is shown throughout the story in pieces, without giving anything away.At the end, we discover that after the accident, Kathleen attempts to help Andrea out of her SUV in the pouring rain. At that time, Andrea pulls the antique gun and shoots Kathleen in the chest. They are both taken to the hospital and Andrea lives, while Kathleen does not.Claiming self defense, Andrea will go to trial for the shooting- but she did not lose the baby, although she lost part of one of her legs. She then vows to spend more time on things that matter. It was devastating to see the impact of road rage and frustration from the day to day pressures we all suffer. So many things loom large when we cant step away from them and see them clearly. This story is a perfect example of that, and the actresses are both superb.