The Last Showgirl

I really enjoyed this one. It‘s very low key but everything is on point here. The cinematography is beautiful, the score is perfect and the performances, especially by Pamela Anderson and Jamie Lee Curtis are brilliant.
It‘s so good to see that Pamela Anderson finally get‘s her chance to shine in a serious film role.

"I keep forgetting that you're not actually a reasonable person."

It's hard for me to feel compassion for someone who chooses any sort of career or passion over their child. At the same time, I relate all too well to the feeling of desperately needing validation like oxygen.

Very disconcerting to see Chanel #3 as a real human being who actually emotes.

Pamela is great, the movie is missing a punch. All the story lines are broken in the end..

Like a nightclub after closing time: lonely, sad, and at moments profound.

You can still smell the stale cigarette smoke, reality star fragrance and ragged dawn woven into this beautiful and tragic testimony to women and growing older.

(Dave Bautista really did something here.)

Some people are going to be very bored by this film. If you like quirky, indie character pieces, then you’ll like this. Worth a watch.

If they mean to generate pity for elderly women that are badly treated by the system, that is not it for me.
I do not know it there are in reality 60 year old cabaret dances in a-class vegas acts, but I do know that the public comes to see dream-girls and not a geriatrics show.
To me, the movie shows the fate of too old showgirls (Anderson and Curtis) who missed 20 years before to get out of the line of work and find something more fitting to do in order to ensure the second part of their lives. That is why I can pity them for the bad decisions they made in their lives.
From that point of view, it is a good movie worth watching. I also like the acting, especially from Anderson who does her best acting yet.

Pamela Anderson, you deserve the world.

'The Last Showgirl' is good. It's a movie that didn't overstay its welcome, the 89 minutes flew through. Some of the ways the characters act did feel a bit odd to me at times, though the actors all give solid performances; without those onscreen, I'd be rating it lower.

I did hear pre-watch of the positivity Pamela Anderson received for this role and I can see why, she is very good. This is the first time I've seen her in a leading role, despite knowing of her forever. I would, to be honest, put all of her co-stars in the brackets of praise near here though.

Dave Bautista particularly impresses, while Kiernan Shipka, Brenda Song and Jamie Lee Curtis do enough that I do remember them hours after viewing; which isn't always the case for the supporting casts of films that I rate like this. As noted above, it's a film made a success by its talent.

Pamela Anderson is pretty good in this and so is Jamie Lee Curtis but this isn’t some amazing movie. Feels like a student film. 25% of the movie is Pam smoking cigarettes looking at Vegas buildings and dancing around. It’s also not much of a story. Worth a watch at home

What a treat to see Pamela in this kind of role! Truly feels like it’s what she wanted to do for a long time and it’s almost like the movie was written for her.