"The Last Rodeo" is a contemporary drama in the Professional Bull Riders realm, featuring Neal McDonough as Joe Wainwright, a retired bull rider making a comeback to fund a loved one's surgery. Director Jon Avnet effectively showcases the excitement of bull riding through innovative filming techniques. However, the film's first half is slow and suffers from predictable dialogue. The performances add warmth, particularly from Christopher McDonald as a savvy PBR official and Sarah Jones as Joe's pragmatic daughter, providing a grounding counterpoint to the heightened drama of the sport.
As a character says in this homage to a thrilling, occasionally bone-crushing sport, "What a bull."
Director Jon Avnet films the bull-riding sequences with impressive immediacy, using everything from GoPro to slo-mo to capture what it's like to sit atop a bucking hulk of sinew and muscle.
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