Last Sentinel
- 2023
- 1h 57min
Una squadra di soldati è bloccata in una base militare abbandonata su un pianeta Terra del prossimo futuro in attesa di essere salvata o di ingaggiare il nemico, qualunque cosa accada per pr... Leggi tuttoUna squadra di soldati è bloccata in una base militare abbandonata su un pianeta Terra del prossimo futuro in attesa di essere salvata o di ingaggiare il nemico, qualunque cosa accada per prima.Una squadra di soldati è bloccata in una base militare abbandonata su un pianeta Terra del prossimo futuro in attesa di essere salvata o di ingaggiare il nemico, qualunque cosa accada per prima.
- Regia
- Sceneggiatura
- Star
- Premi
- 3 vittorie e 2 candidature
Trama
Lo sapevi?
- QuizThe structure in this film is derived from a single tower of the Maunsell army forts built in groups of seven to defend the Thames Estuary and River Thames ports during WWII. The Red Sands group and six of the seven Shivering Sands towers remain, as of this movie's release.
- BlooperWhen loading the howitzer as the unmanned ship approaches, the shells clearly have no primers or projectiles. They are just empty cases, unable to fire.
- Citazioni
[first lines]
Cassidy: [narrating] Darkness and light. Evil and good. War and peace. Them and us. Everyone knows that one could not exist without the other. And between to two, there is a balance.
Cassidy: Some say that before the lands disappeared, birds were able to migrate between the continents. They used a wind called uplift. You don't have to flap your wings to stay up. But you also don't fall. You stay in the middle effortlessly, resting in the air.
Cassidy: But there are no uplift winds any more, because we ruined the balance.
- Colonne sonoreOld MacDonald Had a Farm
(uncredited)
Lyrics by Frederick Thomas Nettlingham
(traditional children's song and nursery rhyme)
The reason I found myself glued to the screen was the great directing by Tanel Toom, the excellent cinematography, the spot-on score, and the convincing performances by all the cast. All of that combined with a very intriguing screenplay, made the pacing bearable and time started to fly, as much was happening from scene to scene, so that the suspense and tension was constant, and I was hooked and curious as to what would happen next.
Up until the last half hour, I was also really impressed with Malachi Smyth's screenplay, as he kept giving only the right amount of bits of information about his four characters, their environment and their situation. I was excited to see how this film would resolve and end. Then in the last half hour of the film, it's like a fifth grade drama class stepped in and completed the screenplay instead of Smyth.
The film built-up great foundations, but ultimately it closes off with too little in the plot department, when the film's world gives ample options and opportunities to close-out in grandeur. Everything in the last half hour became convoluted, previous questions were never answered, especially the big one - what exactly was that round device and what's it supposed to do? Then the story devolves with an inane climactic twist riddled with plot holes that falls flat, made little sense with rational thought, and took away all the build-up and suspense I had in the first two acts. What a huge let down, and a waste of starting to watch this film, only to invest all that time for a ridiculous and nonsense ending. Writing doesn't get much lazier than that. It's like ordering a banana split supreme, waiting as they make it, and being handed a sour grape instead.
That's a real shame, because this was a visually stunning film, well shot, directed and performed, especially considering the small budget and fixed sets and location. It's a generous 6/10, all for the film's esthetics and performances, but could've easily been an 8/10 had the ending not been so lazily written, convoluted and unsatisfying.
- Top_Dawg_Critic
- 28 apr 2023
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- 143.704 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 57 minuti
- Colore
- Proporzioni
- 2.35 : 1