Product: Last Days (2 Disc Special Edition)
Rating: 2.0
Gus Van Sant's Last Days is very disappointing but not his worst
A young man named Blake, played by Michael Pitt (Dreamers, The Village) who is incredibley believeable, mumbles and bumbles in his last days of life. He writes music on the side, he eats cereal, passes out watching Boys 2 Men while he wears a black dress, he makes macoroni and cheese, avoids a friend who has brought a Detective, played by Ricky Jay (Boogie Nights, Men In Black), who is looking for him, his friends dont want to spend the rest of their days sitting in a non-heated place...even his friend Scott, played by Scott Green complains of the heat...asking him if he can borrow some money and he wants one of those "Jet-Heaters". Blake even goes to a punk rock show where a friend babbles about playing Dungeons & Dragons with Jerry Garcia (I thought that was funny because I used to play D&D back in the day..I know I'm a geek...hoorah) and in the end Blake eventually dies in greenhouse. Gus Van Sant uses some pretty interesting camera work but some of them take to long..Boys 2 Men video being one of them, a part where the camera pans away from the estate while we see Blake in the window and so on and so forth. It's a quiet film....ment to be that way and it also is supposed to be about the last days of Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain....Van Sant just changed the name to Blake and the greenhouse was in Seattle but here it is in New York. This is a Gus Van Sant movie period...but I was a little disappointed in it...the story drags on and the actors seem bored out of their mind. Also starring Asia Argento (Land of the Dead, xXx), Lukas Haas (Long Time Dead, Mars Attacks! and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon. You're either gonna hate this, be very disappointed in this, think its ok or even love it to death.