Last Exit to Brooklyn 1989 123movies

Watch: Last Exit to Brooklyn 1989 123movies, Full Movie Online – Taken from Hubert Selby, Jr.’s controversial novel set in early 1950s Brooklyn. During a bitter strike by workers against a local factory, a gallery of struggling characters are crushed by their squalid surroundings and selves: an unhappily married union strike leader discovers he is gay; a jaded prostitute falls in love with one of her clients, a naive young sailor; a union negotiator attempts to peacefully resolve the strike while desperately hiding the fact that he’s a communist; the family of a striking factory worker cannot cope with the fact that their teenage daughter is illegitimately pregnant..
Plot: A gritty Brooklyn story about union corruption, violence, taboos and social norms. The stories told are of the sailors, the prostitute, the union bosses, the hooligans and the gay community set in the early 50s.
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Ratings:

	6.8/10 Votes: 6,409
	70% | RottenTomatoes
	62/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 82 Popularity: 6.783 | TMDB

Reviews:

As Hard-Hitting as a Baseball Bat…
Mark Knopfler’s beautiful and melancholy score paints a haunting and pained picture, over this, an extremely hard-hitting drama, superbly directed by Uli Edel.

For 1989, its release date and set around Brooklyn in the 1952, this is as strong as films got. The “C” word, rape scenes, florid homosexuality and sexual violence – from a novel (by Hubert Selby jnr) that was initially banned under the Obscene Publications Act.

So, why watch it? There’s a sense of brooding beauty about it, in the same way that West Side Story had flawed characters, in so many conflicts, within their own community and incomers, such as military servicemen, at night, looking for a great time. Enter busty, platinum blonde and cocky Jennifer Jason Leigh, who gets men in bars buying her drinks, leads them out for some ‘fun’ and then her mates bash him round the head with a bottle. Grabbing the money, they’re just those hoodlums from west Side…just older, doing worse things.

Stephen Lang, meanwhile, is the shop steward for a union, that’s called its dockside workers out. He’s raking in on expenses, for things he doesn’t even need. He’s got a wife and baby, but leaves them at night to go out with Regina (actually, Reginald) a camp gay and his bitching transvestite buddies.

As you can see, this is strictly for adults and no, I haven’t read the book. A friend I lent the DVD to, who’s read all manner of literature, from the classics to strong stuff like this, just said “Wow”.

It’s a memorable and distinctive film. Not one that’s known, either commercially, or infamously. It doesn’t seem to get bundled up with the likes of Natural Born Killers or A Clockwork Orange. Maybe cos it has a heart; a survivoral instinct that’s most apparent in the Italian families in the film, headed by Burt Young, who of course played Paulie, Rocky Balboa’s wheezing training aide, in the Rocky movies.

My Universal release has a fine transfer and is quite cheap, especially secondhand. So, if you want something pretty edgy, but with a heart and a pulse, this could end up in your player.

Unrelenting bummer going nowhere
I don’t know much about film-making, but good movies have to tell some sort of a story…your characters have to start and complete their journey. In Last Exit to Brooklyn they may, but its not in any satisfying way, and I’m not meaning a happy ending, just ANY ending.

Last Exit to Brooklyn, set in 1952 Brooklyn during a very brutal labor strike, sets a number of story threads in motion. Most involve some of the most unlikeable characters to ever walk across a movie screen. But Last Exit to Brooklyn fails to bring these stories to any conclusion…it leaves some of them dangling with no ending, or blasts off into some bizarre stratosphere for an “artistic” ending.

Two cases in point, and they contain spoilers.

A sad transvestite character (an important character in the film), is struck by a car and killed. And that’s it for him in the movie….he’s gone for good, erased from everyone’s memory..no reactions from his friends, enemies, lovers….nothing.

In another thread the stupid, clueless, and secretly gay strike leader, having been rejected by labor, his gay lover, and found out by the neighborhood thugs, gets stomped by the thugs. The closing scene to the beating shows the streets of Brooklyn, and the streetlights are very, very similar to those of Nazi death camps…and the scene drags on and on and on…and the camera pans down to the body of the labor leader, and he’s been crucified…..ppppuuuulllleeeeeez. And of course that’s it for him too….brain erasure…..gone.

Bottom line….no matter what the reviewers originally said in 1989 about this film….this movie is a depressing piece of sludge. Avoid it. And if you don’t be forewarned, it really deserves an NC-17 rating for massive amounts of physical, emotional and sexual brutality…don’t even let the teenagers watch.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 42 min (102 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama
Director Uli Edel
Writer Hubert Selby Jr., Desmond Nakano
Actors Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young
Country United Kingdom, West Germany, United States
Awards 6 wins & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Bavaria Kopierwerk GmbH, München, Germany (processing), DuArt Film Laboratories Inc., New York, USA (processing)
Film Length 2,816 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm