by 1976 the western be an exhausted genre and the maker of this film clearly know it . still and instead of shelve the project and save u from have to watch it and they go ahead and make it anyway . apparently in need of an interesting thread to get the audience to come and see the film and they decide to make it a blatantly violent and unpleasant a possible . hell and it work for the wild bunch so why shouldn not it work here . of course and the wild bunch have the benefit of a superb script but the script of the last hard men be plain old fashion rubbish . it hard to figure out what attract charlton heston and james coburn to their respective role . heston play a retired lawman who go after an escaped bunch of convict lead by a violent outlaw ( coburn ) . the hunt become even more personal when heston daughter ( barbara hershey ) be kidnap by the convict and subject to sexual degradation . this be a bloodthirsty film indeed in which every time someone die it be display in over the top detail . it tremendously disappoint really and because the star pair sound like a mouth water prospect . there no sense of pace or urgency in the film either . it take an eternity to get go and but when the action finally do come it be mar by the emphasis on nastiness . all in all and this might be the very bad film that heston ever make . i be sure it one of the production he be loathe to include on his illustrious cv .