Touching, sad and unexpectedly violent.

Rating: Null/10 (19 April 2002)

This movie was a very good one. Julia Stiles delivers another outstanding performance as Sara, a girl who is sent to live with her father on the South Side of Chicago, where she is forced to give up the one thing that makes her happy: dancing. Until she meets Derek (Sean Patrick Thomas) who helps her in life and dance. Sara must struggle to form and keep a relationship with Derek before outside forces and racism break them apart. So, like I said, this movie was good. In fact, great. One hell of a movie this is.*SPOILERS* There was a lot of violence that I wasn't expecting to see in a Drama Romance movie. It shows basically how a black man lives and what their lives are like. How they think and how they act. Fredro Starr was a real bad@$$. He shows how a real mean thug actually acts. They act all cool and nasty and walk around with their big poofy jackets and use slang language all the time (I ain't saying that's bad, I do it all the time and I'm a white person). The rap in this movie was good too. I love rap. The ending was the best part of the movie, showing us what is happening to all of the film's central characters at one time. I thought that maybe Terry Kinney could have been a little better. But maybe not. He did a good job as being the father who didn't know how to please his daughter until the one time he does. There really isn't much else to say about this movie, except that it was great. Touching at some times and a little bad (mean bad, not terrible bad) at some times. If you're a woman and are easily touched by parts of a movie, then watch this because you will most likely cry. SAVE THE LAST DANCE: 5/5.