Jon Avnet’s film deals with a big man who competes again to win a reward and save his grandson’s life. Despite the US morals, also here the “nobody is saved alone.”
Playing baseball, a preteen boy receives a ball, does not give importance a little a brain tumor. It must be operated as soon as possible, but this happens in the US, where the concept of public health is very different from that of Argentina or France. In other words, you have to put a lot of money or let the kid die. The mother, widow, is desperate. And the grandfather, who has been an elite athlete, does not see another solution to score in a competition of great figures with a strong cash prize.
The detail is that the competition consists of setting up a wild bull and staying on its back grabbed with one hand, and with the greatest possible elegance, at least for eight seconds. The man is already 53 years old, he has long since moved away from rodeo, and his rivals are young in full activity. How does this end? With a happy ending, of course. It is an American film, also produced by a company of religious films, the Angel Studio. The good thing is that you don’t notice too much. There is hardly a prayer scene before a grave, and there is no miracle, although the man endures the eight seconds. And then how is the boy saved, and how does the clinic take theirs? Well, we will only say that in those lares, even if the individual, courage, manhood and decency, are also very clear that “nobody is saved alone.”
Director, Jon Avnetthe veteran of “Fried green tomatoes”. Protagonist, Neal McDonoughveteran cast actor with few leading, here seen in “Tulsa King”, “Yellowstone”, And before “Band of Brothers” and “Desperate housewives”. Action doubles, on tamers Venn Johns (for the main character) and Pray Brownwell African -American, but with the helmet and gloves it replaces any target without anyone noticing it. They also participate some bulls Raza Brahman and the like, quite brave, a very long horns steer so that the boys are practicing as if it were a game, several members of the Professional Bull Riding Assoc, and an arbitrator who controls the VAR (yes, also in those competitions the VAR) is used. Mounting, Tom Costantintaking a little the resources of “Junior Bonner” (Sam Peckimpah1972), insurmountable film of tamers with Steve McQueen at the head. It was called “Son of the whirlwind”.
“The Last Rodeo” (The Last Rodeo, USA, 2025;
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