The Last Inn

Wow, this is bad, mega bad, I don't think I've ever seen a film like this before, so that's 1 star at least for the effort.

The problem for the viewer is that it's so awful, you keep trying to work out if they're serious or if it's a parody, along the lines of Police Squad or even Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.

The element that makes it confusing is that they have great cameras, so it looks pretty good, everything else though is odd. My sense is that this was a serious attempt at a horror movie, or maybe even a comedy/ horror, but Director & Producer David Kuan, hasn't a single clue how to achieve that.

Every single scene & every word spoken is wrong or off, so to critique this properly would take all day, suffice it to say this should be on Red Letter Media's Best of the Worst, they'd love it!

I didn't make it all the way, but maybe after a few bottles of wine I might try.

From the start it looks normal however straight away from Laura getting out the car with a head injury she turns round and she's got a plaster on. First were did the plaster come from second you can tell she's sitting behind a green screen in the car. Anyway we carried on watching and it just went from bad to worse. The voice for the little girl is from about a 60 year old woman. All actors are stiff and can't speak properly. It's addictive to watch as the acting is so bad ! Like I think I could video myself around my apartment block and could make it more scary using my phone. If this is free and your into that type of poorly written and acting film then watch it but this shouldn't be allowed to be sold in shops. I'm even tempting taking this back to Asda and demanding my money back. And at the end watch out for when the preist is talking to the man and woman and child because when the camera is looking at the man speaking and then switched to a side angle it's a completely different person.. just waisted and hour and a half of my life which I won't get back watching this terrible film !

If you make it to the credits I think it's genuinely worth it with all the spelling errors. Was it made to be this horrible or was this just an accident? It was the best laugh I've had in awhile. Very predictable from the beginning and the acting is atrocious. The actors are very wooden and robotic with their speech and movements.

The story line was weird and the flashback of the two main characters falling in love was hysterical. It looked like a online dating commercial.

I want to give it more stars just because we found it so comical and laughed through the entire film, but I can't because I don't want deceive anyone.

While watching this, my heart went out to Emily Hall, who plays Laura. She gives a decent performance considering all the things working against her - namely, her appalling dialogue, unfathomable dubbing (from American into American), the stone-dead pacing, derivative storyline and the performances of all of those around her. Oh, and the ballad accompanying the longed-for finale 100 minutes later.

There is a scene towards the end of 'The Last Inn' involving a priest explaining the entire plot (which seems to be cribbed from 'The Others'), which involves some of the worst acting I have ever seen on film. So bad, it's as if everyone is emoting through a mechanical speech-generating device.

It's as though the dialogue and delivery were translated strictly from another language - possibly Chinese, given that the filming took place mainly at Hengdiah film studios. Remember the old Japanese 1970s 'Godzilla' films from Toho studios, and how they were often let down by poor dialogue and dubbing? That's what this reminds me of.

Elsewhere, the cinematography is very good and nicely lit. There is no skimping on the budget either, because some money has clearly been spent on this. That the results are so off-kilter and odd, ensure that it's a challenge to get to the end, where you can at least get some comfort spotting the spelling errors in the closing credits. Hopefully Emily Hall can put this behind her. My score is 3 out of 10.

Well, given the storyline, acting and dialogue that took place in this 2021 horror movie, then no wonder this is the last inn. Let's just say that you are not in for a good old time when you sit down to watch this horror movie from writers Bill Jones and Catherine Lewis. In fact, you are in for 1 hour and 37 minutes of toe-curling narrative with acting performances as wooden as ventriloquist dummies, and dialogue to match.

But I am getting ahead of myself here. Let's stop and take a look at the storyline in "The Last Inn", or what was supposed to pass as the storyline. The events that took place in the movie was so generic and pointless, not to mention predictable, that there virtually was no effort put into it. You could watch the first 15 minutes of the movie and the last 15 minutes and still get the same outcome as if watched the entire ordeal. And an ordeal it was, trust me.

Then there was the acting, or what passed as acting here. This was just simply beyond my comprehension. Not even middle school theater shows have acting performances as wooden and rigid as what you see in "The Last Inn", nor delivery of dialogue so devoid of emotion or tone that you think it was a voice box.

"The Last Inn" is labeled as a horror movie. Yeah, well don't go about believing that you will be in for a classic tale of proper horror. I did that mistake, so learn from my suffering and don't go there. The only thing horror here was the total absence of proper story and acting.

Visually then "The Last Inn" was so-so. I mean, there wasn't exactly an abundance of special effects, and whatever special effects or CGI there was in the movie was mediocre at best, but at least it served its purpose.

Trust me when I say that you should stay well clear of director David Kuan's 2021 movie "The Last Inn". It just simply isn't worth the effort, money or time.

My rating of "The Last Inn" lands on a generous two out of ten stars, based on the fact that they seriously put in an effort here, and also because of semi-adequate production value.