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‘The Last Rifleman’ Review: Pierce Brosnan Proves Poignant in a Nostalgia-Heavy World War II Story
Despite a strong lead performance from Pierce Brosnan, Terry Loane’s 'The Last Rifleman' loses its focus by trying to be too many things.
Brosnan is 92-year-old Artie Crawford, living in a care home in Northern Ireland while having poignant and unsettling flashbacks to World War II, when he fought alongside his best friend and fell in love with the woman he eventually married. Fitzpatrick gifts him with the script’s only poignant line about how these older men are “living with ghosts.” Amos’ delivery conjures the gravitas that the numerous flashbacks couldn’t muster. Yet the filmmakers do not trust the audience to grapple with these plain elements alone, so they add unsophisticated humor and underwritten characters, thus stranding their capable leading man in a dull film.
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