Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.

SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Tyreece Hulme One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

johno-21 This has become a staple on the Lifetime Movie Channel since it first aired in 2006 and for a good reason as it's a pretty good movie. For most of it anyway. Beth Welland (Kathleen Robertson) is a clerk in a law firm and a single mother raising a handicapped son and trying to make ends meets. Diana Burke (Andrea Roth) juggles family life and a career as a married mother of two and a successful advertising executive. Beth misses her exit off the freeway driving to work one day due to a combination of being inattentive in her driving and Diana being to assertive in her driving. So begins a chain of events that snowballs into the ultimate day of stress for Beth and concluding when Diana and Beth's paths cross again at the end of the day. The film cuts back and forth to Beth and Diana as we follow them through their day. Robertson is compelling as the stressed out Beth whose day just keeps getting worse. John Fawcett directs. Excellent camera work from cinematographer Norayr Kasper with a tense music soundtrack by Mike Shields and superb editing by Brett Sullivan. I was with this movie until it's highly implausible climax. (SPOILER ALERT) Diana has a pistol (convienantly loaded) that her son had brought to school earlier in the day. Diana was called to the school and given the gun which she put in her center counsel of her Jeep. Beth recognizes Diana as the driver who cut her off earlier in the day when Beth's car breaks down later in the day. As traffic backs up Beth approaches Diana's car and starts smashing it. At this point Diana could have reached for the gun and simply pointed it at her attacker Beth who is outside her vehicle and Beth would have backed off and that would have been that. Instead Beth continues to pummel Diana's Jeep until Diana can weave out of the backed up traffic and split. Beth's car is now working again so she begins a high speed pursuit. Diana loses control of her Jeep and it rolls over before coming to a stop on it's roof. Everything in the car would have been widely scattered about and Diana is strapped in her seat belt upside down, severely injured and on the verge of losing consciousness but yet manages to find the pistol and fire off a shot at Beth as Beth approaches Diana's wreck to administer aid instead of havoc. I realize they were going for an ending with a twist but this was a little far fetched. The whole movie was a little far fetched for that matter but it was a great ride with tension you could cut with a knife throughout. I would give it a 7.0 out of 10 but with a more plausible climax I would have rated it higher.

kai ringler the only thing missing from this movie is Pearl Jam's song Last Exit,, that would have put an ! on the movie, but i'm not docking the directors for that omission,, this was just a great made for TV movie, kinda reminds of 2002's changing lanes , except the characters are female, two women have very hectic days and are on a collision course for death, what starts out as a mom being late and having to cross town, and a producer type Hollywood girl going to the set results in deadly consequences at the end, but boy do we have a lot in between. basically one woman drives super carelessly, and cuts off the other one causing her to miss her exit, as the day progresses the situation only get's worse, and a chain reaction of bad things happens to the one girl, slowly rage builds up and presto you have maybe on of the better TV movies ever made in my opinion.

Dallas Woolley I thought the movie well represented the reality of modern life. News stories on a regular basis highlight the impact of stress, poverty, and other conditions that push people to do unthinkable things. Last Exit keeps you on the edge of your seat as you watch the events of the day unfold in the lives of two very different women. The movie was not a sensational unrealistic Hollywood movie - it was very much a low key realistic look at the lives of the two women. One women is quite well off with husband and child, the other women divorced, in financial difficulty and struggling to hold a job and raise her son. The movie illustrates how one person can reach breaking point after a number of unfortunate events occur over a period of time. My wife really enjoyed the movie and so did some friends we recommended it to. Very good.

RockBiter On the surface this is a low-budget made-for-TV movie but I found myself sinking into it more and more and more until my entire body was tensing and my hands clenching. When a story comes along which compels you to THINK after it is finished, it is a gem. This was by no means an air-tight written story but the CHARACTERS were real and their lives were real. Based on a '24' real-time type script, the movie follows one day in the lives of two completely unrelated women. Their only connection is a horrific accident involving the two of them resulting from road rage at the end of it. The movie begins at the end, in effect, and gives us the details of that day gradually. The camera occasionally shows us the time during the flashbacks, on an office wall or a car dashboard. It is filmed in a real-life, over-the-shoulder, CNN type mode which makes you feel like you are walking into the conference room with Andrea Roth's Diana Burke or sitting at a table in a restaurant with Kathleen Roberston's Beth Welland. And all the while, the anger and despair of these women slowly builds to that exploding point.The movie is very much an indictment of our dog-eat-dog society as well. Even though these women live in the bustle of the city they are ALONE and it is a shock to you to realize that the human being next to you on the highway or passing you in the hallway could be living a life like these two women. The movie ends with one of them surviving and the other passing away and you, having entered into their lives, are left to process what decisions and actions and circumstances brought them to that fateful moment. That's all. And you will, if you see the movie.There are two very powerful scenes in this movie which I want to mention. Kathleen Robertson's performance here I will not soon forget. There is a scene in the restaurant just before the cake arrives during her son's birthday party - and while the son has been invited to the kitchen by the chef - where Beth has been informed by her ex that his lawyer feels they have a strong case for full custody of their son. She has just lost her job and has nothing while he and his new girlfriend have just bought a nice house in the burbs. He mentions it casually like it was of little consequence but when the son returns the camera is only on Kathleen's face. For a full minute all of the noise in the place filters out and you are left with seeing the poison come into her eyes in complete silence. I have not seen or felt a more authentic, human scene in a film. The other was at the end - and this is the real spoiler - as the doctors inform those at the hospital of Beth's death. Once again the camera is only on one person - her son - and when the moment comes his entire body wilts and his eyes become vacant. You realize that he is the only one who will miss her. I was left gasping as I saw it.For anyone who is looking for a real human story here is one for you.