'The Last Temptation Of Becky' (2026) Movie Review

Back in 2020, who would have thought Becky, an indie action lark about a precocious tween violently murdering Nazis, would birth a franchise? But here we are, and thank god, because The Last Temptation of Becky, the third and latest installment, understands one key thing above all else: Killing Nazis is awesome. Now in the hands of director Jenn Wexler (The Ranger), this chapter leans hard into the inherent absurdity of its concept, knowing exactly what it’s doing, and never skimping on the gore.

 

Becky (Lulu Wilson) is back. Now she’s 18 and a CIA agent. Because of course. But don’t worry, she’s just as spunky and psychotic as ever, playing fast and loose with the rules, but getting the job done. Now she has a new mission. General Wilhelm Reuss (Neil Patrick Harris, looking remarkably like his character in Starship Troopers) and his family run a cozy bed and breakfast called The Wolf’s Lair, conveniently located at one of Hitler’s leftover bunkers. This facility also doubles as a secret laboratory where Reuss and company enact their vague, and deeply, deeply stupid plan to launch the Fourth Reich. (It’s mind-boggling how dumb it is.) Guess who the CIA sends in, alone, to stop his dastardly plan? 

 

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As with the previous two films, what’s fun about Last Temptation is a total blast, but what’s not is hit and miss. Becky is basically teen nazi-hunting James Bond at this point, a fact driven home by the gearing-up scene with her Agency handler, Montana (Kate Siegel, Midnight Mass). She has gadgets and gizmos for days, and again, the film leans into the silliness. Our heroine frequently ends up covered head to toe in blood. On the other end of the spectrum, the script ties itself in knots linking this current situation to Becky’s past. There’s a story in her lingering trauma and deep emotional wounds that have never healed, but that’s not this film, and outside of a few clunky bits of lip service to her psychological damage, there’s no interest in confronting those issues at all. It also doesn’t matter in the slightest that Reuss has ties to earlier antagonists, it’s forced and inconsequential.

 

Also like the other chapters, this has a bit of a villain problem. On paper, having Neil Patrick Harris play a fiendish nazi sounds like gold. He mostly plays it straight, aiming for sinister madman bent on world domination, but he never fully sells the character as menacing. This happens in Becky and Wrath of Becky with Kevin James and Sean Willaim Scott, respectively. That’s a hazard of casting someone so well known in a part like this. Especially with actors primarily known for good-natured or comedic roles, it’s hard to see past their legacies. But even beyond other roles, Harris, like his predecessors, never goes as deep and dark as necessary. He’s supposed to be cold, calculating, and evil, but you never quite believe him. It might have worked better with the campier, goofier overall tone if he’d gone the opposite way, into a cackling, scene-chewing lunacy, but that’s not what he’s going for.

 

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A bit more intentionally absurd than its predecessors, The Last Temptation of Becky is nevertheless a damn fun time. It’s slight, and I don’t know that it has all that much staying power, but it’s an entertaining momentary distraction. And you know what, that’s fine. Not every movie has a deep, profound, or emotionally moving message. That’s not this film. Wexler and company want to get in, be awesome, kill baddies, coat the hero in viscera, and get out. No matter what, you can’t help but cheer as Becky once again eviscerates Nazis. If that’s not a feel-good movie, I don’t know what is. [Grade: B]