My review was written in November 1990 after watching the movie on Paramount/Prism video cassette.
"Last Call" is a very sexy made-for-video feature from the team who recently hit with "Night Eyes". February release through Paramount should score heavily with the intended voyeur market.
"Night Eyes" had a cleaned-up afterlife in broadcast tv using the title "Hidden View". "Last Call" is similarly structured to allow for a tamer version. For video, it exists in unrate form (reviewed here) as well as an R-rated cut.
Shannon Tweed follows in Tanya ("Night Eyes") Roberts' uninhibited footsteps as the alluring heroiee who teams up with yuppie real estate wiz Wiliam Katt to pull off an elaborate scheme designed to skin unscrupulous investor Matt Roe.
Roe has royally screwed Katt in a land development deal involving mafioso Jospeh Campanella and Tweed's job as Roe's personal assistant allows her to get important papers for Katt to use against the creep.
It turns out (with black & white flashback sequences filing in the details) that Tweed has her own hidden agenda of revenge against Roe. Ultimately they gain control of his secret bank accounts and bleed him dry.
En route there are numerous sex scnes involving Tweed, as well as her erotic dance routines in a nightclub as a performance artist. Stella Stevens, who like Tweed got an early career boost as a model for Playboy magazine, is also extremely hot in a sex scene with Roe, who just happens to be the boyfriend of Stevens' daughter (played by Karen Elise Baldwin).
The necessity of packing int ons of steamy footage to a complicated storyline gives "Last Call" a unique structure. Genre fans will be fascinated by the final reel packing in lickety split plot twists and switches to make u for lost time in the sack. Director Jag Mundhra stretches credibility, but it's fun to watch.
Tweed lets it all hang out in a performance that transcends the exploitation content. Stevens, as always, is a delight and proves there's no age limit for sex symbols. Katt does an okay job but his character is unfortunately written as not much more sympathetic than the villain Roe.
