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Catherine Wright struggles with a debilitating sleep disorder. Her husband Michael struggles to cope when their new born son lay in the wake.

Between a shallow view of people with mental illness and a shoddy story, The Last Letter seems like something needing to be re-written.

This movie tries way to hard to be a good &quot;suspense thriller.&quot; They story is really not tied together at all and some things in the plot are completely not logical. PLOT HOLES. Are they going to completely stop investigating the fire because the detective on the case dies? What happens to the second detective&#39;s wife? Mr. Smith&#39;s son was in the room when the fire started and got out safe, then why wouldn&#39;t he tell the police that George wasn&#39;t in the room when the fire started? HEAD SCRATCHERS. Why after telling his wife that she look&#39;s like she&#39;s on the brink of insanity would Micheal continue to leave his son in her care? How could Catherine murder her son and not at the very least be admitted to a psychiatric facility? When Catherine wake&#39;s up after killing Micheal she has already has blood on her night gown, yet she goes into the kitchen with the police and screams as if she just found him. Why doesn&#39;t this set of any alarms in the police head, especially since George doesn&#39;t have a drop of blood on him? SUMMARY. All in all its just a terribly written movie. The plot is all over the place and it doesn&#39;t come together at all.

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The Last Letter

Netflix billed this as a &quot;twisted, psychological thriller&quot; and with a quality cast, I thought this MUST be at least good. Right? WRONG! This movie was slow, predictable and full of holes. It made very little sense. I kept waiting for the &quot;thriller&quot; but there was nothing thrilling about this movie at all. It was a huge waste of time and the ending was abysmal. Normally I would say &quot;they could have made it a little better IF...&quot; but the story is so weak I can&#39;t imagine they could have improved on it anyway. I can&#39;t find one positive thing to say about this flick. Wait... there is one positive; at least I didn&#39;t waste my money at the theater.

First and foremost the idea that young people write letters is different. Perhaps that is a way to say Catherine (Sharon Leal) who appears to be typical of a girl you meet on a web site. She marries Michael (Omari Hardwick). We know next to nothing about their courtship. Catherine has sleep issues. Michael has work issues. Catherine was raised in a foster home which burned down and killed the owner. George (Gary Dourdan) and Claudia (Rocsi) are her foster siblings who still live in the same upscale neighborhood. Catherine does horrible things in her sleep that no one can control and everyone covers up. The acting was hit and miss. The supporting cast was downright bad. The script has holes in it. Michael&#39;s work situation was poorly scripted. Not entertaining. Not recommended. Parental Guide: F-bombs, sex. No nudity.

Stumbled on this movie today and I wanted to love it so much! I love Omari Hardwick, Sharon Leal, Gary Dourdan, Lynn Whitfield and all of the excellent members of this cast. But this is that cake with all of the premium ingredients that just does not come together. At all. So much made absolutely no sense. We get no insight into who the wife is, and more importantly, who she was before they married. I particularly do not like the &quot;inevitability&quot; of children who grow up in foster care becoming sociopaths. That is so wrong and inaccurate. And whatever was happening to her damn sure wasn&#39;t simply a sleeping disorder. The husband should have figured that out in the first 15 minutes of the movie. The fact that they stay together after he knows that she killed their child was the final straw. He got more angry about her mentioning their finances to her foster brother than he did her choking the life out of their child. Please make it make sense. Too many holes in the story to make sense of it all. I would expect something like this on Lifetime but I expected so much more with this level of actors.

The worst movie ever made. I can&#39;t believe that actors of this calibre in 2013 would sign up to this complete stupidness. What a waste of everyone&#39;s time. It&#39;s a pointless embarrassment.

Trigger Warning(s): Child Neglect/ Abuse &amp; Depiction of Mental Illness After seeing Omari Hardwick in Things Never Said I found myself wondering if he had anything else out there to see, thus leading me to stumble on this. Now, like a many of the films I review, I have heard nothing of this movie and didn&#39;t find that too surprising. The reason I say that is because the movie is filled with what, for the Black community, would be some of the biggest supporting actors/actresses, or ones you just rarely see in mainstream films. But, considering most of these actors have at least had one good role, I thought perhaps this could add to their list. Characters &amp; Story When the movie begins we are presented with a love story in which seemingly Cathrine (played by Sharon Leal) has seemingly just lost her husband Michael (played by Omari Hardwick). The movie then rewinds and shows us what lead up to Cathrine heading to her husband&#39;s grave. We see them get married, have a child, and learn quite a bit about the characters as well. Cathrine, for example, is a former foster kid, and former waitress, who had the dream of having the family she never got to. For while she does have two foster siblings, George (played by Gary Dourdan) and Claudia (played by Rocsi), who are like her real brother and sister, she feels like having a husband and child is what she needs. Enter Michael who sees her one day at the restaurant she works at and the two fall in love, and then get married much more quicker than Michael&#39;s mom Lorraine (played by Lynn Whitfield) would prefer, and in fact she says their marriage is a mistake on the wedding day, and repeats these later on. And all I&#39;m going to say is, considering Cathrine and her foster sibling&#39;s actions/ lives, she was right. Praise When it comes to praising this movie, I must admit, while I may not be fond of the overall product, there are certain elements done well. For example, there is one mystery dealing with a fire of the foster home Claudia, Cathrine and George lived in which I felt was done well and I would have even loved to see as a stronger focus in the movie. Also, amongst the cast, I do like Hardwick and Whitfield&#39;s characters &amp; their performances, but outside of that I can&#39;t think of anything positive which stands out. Criticism And the reason for that is this movie combines mental illness, trauma and other factors in such a way which simply doesn&#39;t work, at least for me. Take for example Cathrine&#39;s issues. Once discovered, we learn that she is one of those people who don&#39;t take her medication, and after a few scares you begin to wonder why Michael isn&#39;t doing more for his wife who, obviously, can&#39;t be left by herself, much less with a baby. Then, on top of that, you have characters like George who almost seem like they belong in a separate movie for Dordan&#39;s intensity and actions almost make it seem like he doesn&#39;t fully belong. Leading to one last issue: multiple times in the film either law enforcement, or the courts, get involved and in both cases things turn out in such a way which seems so unreal that it turns you off. I mean, for one example, Cathrine mental illness gets her off, completely it seems, for something you&#39;d think would lead to her being committed, going to jail, or something. Overall: TV Viewing A part of me wants to say to skip it, but at the same time the movie isn&#39;t so bad that it isn&#39;t worth watching if nothing else is on. The reason I say this is because, despite its shallow depiction of those with mental disorders, it isn&#39;t horrible. If anything, I&#39;d say the concept perhaps is/was better than the execution. For while Hardwick and Whitfield do well in their roles, I do feel Leal and Dourdan were either over the top or made you wonder how much research was done.

User reviews

The Last Letter

Tries To Hard.

Extremely Disappointing

PEOPLE WRITE LETTERS?

Great cast. Abysmal screenplay.

The worst movie ever made

Between a shallow view of people with mental illness and a shoddy story, The Last Letter seems like something needing to be re-written.

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