The Last Castle

...den stilige Redfords Irwin utstrålar det genuina ledarskapets milda auktoritet. Så man vet, med andra ord, vem man ska heja på.

The film is at its best when the Redford-Gandolfini face-off holds centre stage: Redford turns in solid work as the military mastermind without ever stretching his range, but this is Gandolfini's gig.

The immediate experience of watching The Last Castle is strongly involving, and the action at the end, exciting. It's the kind of movie people tell you they saw last night and really liked. I really liked it last night, too.

An entertaining, engrossing twist on the lock-up genre: the best, in fact, since The Shawshank Redemption.

The script, written by David Scarpa and Graham Yost, is as solid as the towering buttresses of a medieval castle, building on the chess analogy established early in the film.