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I didn't expect a masterpiece but at least I expected a sci-fi mystery. This was a soap opera, full of drama and... Incredibly stupid characters! They wanted the ship but they didn't want to cause a mutiny. Fine. But then they caused a mutiny AND destroyed the ship! Talk about stupidity LOL A couple of recognisable actors couldn't save this stupid film. I don't know how it managed to get a 5-star rating. Beyond the stupid characters it was boring. Really boring. And why were they using Morse code in 2060 ? LOL Where was the advanced technology? What were their scientists doing all those years? Fishing?

Although the few actors and locations are very good for what seems a low budget movie, the pacing and tension works very well at the start, and the developments are smooth enough to carry the film for a while... the movie lasts two hours for a plot that is not particularly worth the wait, considering it doesn't stick the landing with its disappointing ending. The best compliment I can give it : it's not particularly bad or annoying at any point (see Interceptor for comparison purposes). But there's a lack of cohesion, specially with the message (if there even is one).. a lack of action, emotion, satisfaction or anything to hang on to.

Last Sentinel is a solid B-movie entry to the post-apocalyptic genre - but only if you are interested rather in story than in action only. Last Sentinel does not provide much action, nor is the story or the scenario that "new" but the execution is well done and I like the cast and their job done. So if you dig movies a la Air (Norman Reedus), The Divide (2012), 10 Cloverfield Lane, I Am Mother and the like, this one may provide solid entertainment time to you - all those movies have in common: a small group of people are confined to a place and got to fight for survival and against their own nature and angst.

No one writes stories anymore, just heavy-handed delivery platforms for The Message(tm). The Message(tm), in this case: "You are a BAD! You ate a meat today?!? You drove the gas car?!? BAD peasant BAD!! You, yes you personally, are KILLING all the horses, cats, and swallows!" Apparently, us bad peasants living a technological lifestyle will cause so much water to melt off the polar icecaps that there will be a NEGATIVE mass of ice, releasing more water than is actually contained IN the polar icecaps in the first place, and submerging all the world's land, which did not happen the last time the polar icecaps completely melted, 34 million years ago. This sort of lazy, phoned-in, unresearched, half-assed writing sets the tone for the whole story; the ideas behind each failed plot twist are never supposed to make sense in your head. You are just supposed to feel them with all your feels. Perhaps "story" is a generous word here, because The Message(tm) is relied upon to justify the plot, rather than the other way around. By this point, you may, depending on who you are, be thinking that my objection here is to the content of The Message If you live in NYC, have never left there, refuse to ride anything other than a bicycle, and think food comes from the grocery store, then you might think that possibly you would enjoy this film. You would be wrong. Even if you agree with every single part of The Message(tm), there's still no story, no discernible character motivations or development, and no real conclusion. The Message(tm) cannot save the story, it can never save any story, because good art requires no justification, and bad art allows none.

Unusual film, without much activity, backstory or action but mostly a study of characters in an increasingly tense situation. It is 2063, and due to sea-level rise and climate change, it has become a stormy ocean planet, with remaining land masses still at war. Four crew members on 2 year contract on a remote ocean military outpost, defending some sort of weapon are waiting for a relief crew, or for the "enemy" to show up. The relief crew are months overdue, and when a ship does show up, it is empty. However, I felt engaged with the film through to the end despite the sparse storyline, as crew members struggle with internal and external demons and behave in psychologically unhealthy ways.