Jackass: Best and Last
- Gus Keller
- 1 day ago
- 1 min read
Muddled between a retrospective and its own installment, Jackass: Best and Last has an identity crisis. Instead, it's a clip show with lackluster new content tacked on. Concerted commentary as the team reminisces would've been refreshing. As is, those fleeting, vulnerable moments (plus the team's camaraderie) are what stand out. Unfortunately, the film largely ignores those qualities until its end credits, spending its runtime rehashing the routine crude exhibitions (feeling wholly unnecessary). More than ever, there's little writing, just cobbled-together scraps. Ultimately, Jackass: Best and Last's sole strength is that it's concluding an era, which it avoids confronting.
Technically, Jackass: Best and Last is hardly a movie, more a patchwork appendix composed of student filmmaking. There's incidental cinematography and insignificant sound design. Besides its cold opening and closing montage, its editing constructs a slapdash assortment. Despite needle drops for comedy, its music feels arbitrary. The production design is nonexistent, just whatever they happened to have. Although its core cast remains intact, only Knoxville's fading fame will be noteworthy to non-diehard fans. The stunts are real, but even those are underwhelming (plus, the other effects are cheap). Overall, Jackass: Best and Last is essentially an amateur highlight reel.
Writing: 1/10
Direction: 0/10
Cinematography: 2/10
Acting: 4/10
Editing: 1/10
Sound: 3/10
Score/Soundtrack: 3/10
Production Design: 0/10
Casting: 3/10
Effects: 4/10
Overall Score: 2.1/10
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