The Last Great Wilderness

Saw this movie this evening as part of the local film festival - really thought it was great. The script was really rather unpredictable, and very funny. Casting, acting, writing, etc all came together to make it a great film.

The Wicker Man comes up often with this film, deservedly so - not that it is in any way a rip off, quite original actually - it's just the vibe you get. It was really interesting to be so completely outside the people in the retreat when Charlie and Vince arrive - it was so difficult to tell what was going on, and the audience kind of gets to figure it out with the main characters - a neat device. I was thrown off a bit by Vince's last scene in the film - it did not seem to fit with the pace of the movie. I'm glad that it made it out of Scotland. so the rest of us can see it!!

I thought this movie was excellent in every way. I didn't find it a one-actor movie at all. Although it focused a bit on Charlie, Vince and all the characters in the lodge were just as important. I thought all the actors did a great job. (I've not seen Monarch of the Glen, but I want to now!) Wonderful movie...wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Hopefully at least a few people outside of Edinburgh will see it! :)

THE LAST GREAT WILDERNESS is a different sort of movie. There's a gentle warmth about it that is jarringly interrupted by jolts of graphic sex and disturbing, sadistic violence. There's also a thick atmosphere of dread that's broken up by a cast of oddball characters and humorous bits.

Charlie (Alastair Mackenzie) is the driven, damaged center of the story, on a voyage of danger and discovery.

If you enjoy neo-gothic ghost stories or subtle, suddenly shocking thrillers, then give this film a go...

I don't want to say this is a bad film because I think I was expecting too much from it. A couple of reviews had lead me to believe it was similar to 28 Days Later and Dog Soldiers (Both of which I really enjoyed).

The film began well enough and I think it is an interesting idea. However, by the closing credits I was left underwhelmed, disapointed and most importantly confused.

Maybe there was some signifigance to the ending but if there was, I sure didn't get it.

Despite this, I would say it is definatley a film worth watching.

This film isn't horror, its very unique bizarre drama. Its still very good drama, quite amusing in some places and uses the art of suspense and subtle

references to classic horror films to keep the viewer engaged. Charlie is in Scotland hoping to burn down the house of a celebrity who has

nicked his wife when Vincente throws himself upon his mercy in a motorway

service station. Charlie is obliged to take Vincente in his car where they do a great deal of male bonding on the road. They run out of petrol on a very

deserted patch of Scottish highland and are forced to take 'refuge' (being the operative word) in a lone manor house, miles from anywhere, where there are

some very strange characters residing. The film centralises on the characters exercising their own demons by being

surrounded and supported by other dysfunctional people who have their own

problems. The film ends with some shocking violence. To be fair, its a very

unrealistic story and quite confusing at some points but if you, as like the

characters of Charlie and Vincente are looking for some escapism, 'The Last

Great Wilderness' could be for you.