Last and First Men

I wouldn't really regard nor describe this as a film, but a great art installation piece. The music is fantastic & contemplative & complements the visuals completely & it does project you into another worldly experience along with the narration of Tulsa Swinton. Unsurprisingly it is mainly a vehicle for the composition of sounds & is surprisingly hypnotic. Best experienced BIG, DARK & LOUD.

A futuristic movie with bare visuals, a Gregorian style chant in the background and the soothing voice of the wonderful Tilda Swinton giving the history of a neo human race on a dying earth. This is definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but I found it both relaxing and stimulating, whilst making you think. A thumbs up from me.

The most interesting movie I've seen in a long while. Visually and Sonically stunning.

I can't fault the people who like this one OR the people who don't. The writing is wonderful, and Tilda Swinton's narration is sonorous, but the visuals really add nothing, and the pacing is painfully slow.

Visually, we do get the sense of a dead planet. We get it hammered into us shot by excruciating shot for the entire duration of the film. It's rather fatiguing.

I don't want to argue with the people who like it. If you're so taken with the story that it kept you involved, then great. The film makers could have done a lot more with it. The visuals could have told much more of a story, even with keeping the same approach. Unfortunately, for me the experience was that of a half-hour audiobook crammed into an hours worth of a film.

Is there anything more chilling that the acknowledgment of own mortality?