Monsters

Yeah. I was a bit put off by their dyspeptic dystopia; but there were hints of a really decent story, unknown actors heroically-carrying a mortally-wounded, somewhat shallow script and much, much more...

Frankly, the whole thing reminded me of a bad buffet restaurant. You all know one. The place with 150 inedible items on the menu; but the pie is good...

If they got the writers to edit the screenplay, stopped wasting so much ammo, decided what the movie was about, it could have been fun.

This movie intrigued me enough to write my first review. If you can keep focused you can follow through all the way to the end, or maybe the beginning. They call this The Last Starship, but the Starship doesn't actually do anything but land during the closing credits. I came here to see if there was a sequel to unravel the what seemed to be the beginnings of a plot.

Where things get lost is there are at least a dozen sides in this warfare movie. You never quite knew who was friend, enemy, distrusted ally, ally of necessity, sleeper agent, turncoat or zombie. If you try very hard you can follow a few of the threads, but I'm certain I missed even more. Basically everyone is trying to kill you or your group as you travel through a hostile wasteland on a mission known only to the main characters, but each of the main characters seems to serve a different master with different orders. In the end the only unifying thread is survival, but you are never quite sure who you should be routing for to survive. I think I understood what was going on by the end, but in the end all of the threads were left untied.

If you can stomach a movie where the plot is wildly fragmented, you don't know friend from foe, characters are minimally developed, dialog is muddled with alternating languages, and lots of people get killed then you might be OK with this. It isn't all bad. That might be too generous. It is all bad, and it is nearly unwatchable, but as the credits rolled I found myself wanting more.

If they could have taken this one movie and instead made a TV series out of it, where they could have devoted one episode to properly explore each of the characters and factions, it might have worked.

By the end I did not feel that I had wasted my time, but I did feel that I had only seen a small part of a much larger story.

I don't mind the rather low quality of the special effects department, but what drags The Last Starship down for me, are those endless scenes of talking and more talking, and all that talking without any real substance and not interesting whatsoever, and the acting is also of course not a strong suit that will charm you to enjoy your trip. But while this flick is clearly a low budget endeavor, the power of cheese is not strong in this one - it could have been an entertaining affair as many of those cheesy post-apocalyptic and sci-fi flicks made in the 80s, but, it takes itself too serious for its own good and lacks of action scenes.

This is a movie that is just bizarre. It's part classic post apocalyptic, part sci-fi space raiders, and part societal commentary. Half the foreign cast looks like famous western actors, mostly. There seem to be subplots that aren't fully explored. The special effects for as low budget as it is are surprisingly good. They did a great job of using garbage for gold costume wise and set dressing wise. Parts of it make sense and parts just seem to be story lines that were meant to be cut, but they didn't get all of it. Now don't get me wrong by the star rating, this isn't a good movie, but in terms of bad movies, it's outstanding. Keep an open mind, and enjoy how much they did with so little.

I found this on Amazon Prime's free movie list and almost immediately turned it off when I saw the poor production value, but in the end, I'm glad that I stuck with. This movie's not for everyone, but in the pantheon of bad sci-fi movies, it's not that bad.

The plot doesn't make perfect sense, but it's action-packed enough to be enjoyable nonetheless. One gets the impression that the writer had a lot more content that got cut because geeze, it's already almost 2 hours long. I get the feeling it would have been a great book series, I hope the author keeps writing. It's the kind of movie that offers a lot of brain food if you like to write your own post-apocalypse stories or RPG settings or such things, but at the same time, it isn't one of those movies with lots of world-building and stale characters. The characters aren't super deep, but they do feel very real. The mood of the movie is somewhat goofy, it's not an angst-ridden apocalypse, but rather a world that the characters have grown up in and come to terms with.

Half-spoiler, the actual plot of the movie has nothing to do with the current plot summary, which was written by the director, which is part of what leads me to believe that the script got heavily edited or a lot of content (probably world-building) got cut out.