An Exceptional Ending.

Rating: 10/10 (24 December 2014)

The Hangover III surprised me almost as much as the first one did. Usually the last movie in a trilogy is the worst, and that's what I expected from this. What really got me with this was I am still trying to decide whether this is better than the first or not. Like a regular third instalment, rules are broken with ties made back to the first. This is the only one that I can think of that does so and still comes out the best.
Alan has ditched his medications and Doug has thought about taking him along with Phil and Stu to and intervention. When they are double crossed and Doug is kidnapped by crime boss, Marshal (Goodman) he summons them to find their crazy friend Leslie Chow so Marshal can destroy him.
This is the only one that was not about being hungover or wasted and trying to find someone. Trying to find Chow, which slips in and out of their grasp is the only thing remotely related to that topic. The laughs fly right in at the same level in the other movies, but the whole movie has a change of style, so the laughs may have a different feeling. I saw most critics poking at the lack of hilarity that this one ensued. I found this to be a bit of a dark comedy. I laughed my ass off throughout the whole thing, but this did have a darker and grittier tone. The danger is at an all- time high and I was actually scared that Phil or Alan would die in some scenes. But when they go to Las Vegas, that is when the nostalgia comes back. Jade (Heather Graham) returns and her son Tyler (as Alan call Carlos) at age four is the same baby from the first. That was probably the coolest.
The Hangover III is the last movie. I doubt there will not be a Hangover IV in another ten or fifteen years. Look at The Godfather, Indiana Jones, Scream, Wizard of Oz, Terminator: they all feature instalments decades after saying the series is finished. If this stays the last one, I will always see Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifinakis, Justin Bartha and Ken Jeong as Phil Wenneck, Stu Price, Alan Garner, Doug Billings and Leslie Chow.
4/4