There’s nothing profound to be gained here, but at least it’s a safe bet for your entertainment time and money. Smart plays a very contemporary woman, strong and certain of her standards and aspirations, helping to make SENIOR MOMENT fresh and current. That either means at 90 he’s more lucid than 50, or so, years ago or he’s become a better actor, who no longer needs such gimmicks. Shatner forgoes the long mid-sentence pauses he made (in)famous as Star Trek’s Captain Kirk. The scenery of Palm Springs and its environs is used to good advantage. Scenes in a retirement home are free of cheap gags at the occupants’ expense. The supporting cast contributes well all around. There’s less need to suspend disbelief here than usual for the genre. But screen writers Kurt Brungardt and Christopher Momenee make the journey entertaining, while director Giorgio Serafini runs the table in a crisp 92 minutes. You can fill in the rest of where they’ll wind up on your own. Along the way, he meets a free-spirited, age-appropriate baker (Smart) for whom he develops an uncharacteristic attraction. The rest of the film follows his efforts to regain both with the help of several friends. Instead of being funny or interesting, it feels like a fantasy movie for super senior 90-year-old Bill Shatner in which he gets to drive fast cars, hang out with adolescent bikini models, and still end up with a woman over 20 years younger than himself. For him, that’s the equivalent of a gelding. That’s actually my biggest problem with Senior Moment. Unfortunately, he does so once too often, costing him possession of his car and driver’s license. He drives rather sportily, if not recklessly, as part of his charm. Shatner is a former jet pilot, who chases skirts ardently, propping up his appeal with his Porsche convertible. Mercifully, this script resists the temptations of schmaltz and gives us a relatively believable story, set in a California desert city, mainly full of retirees.
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