Product: Last Days (2 Disc Special Edition)
Rating: 1.0
Nirvana....? Not!!
I have yet to rate anything 1 star on Amazon, but this movie deserves it. I don't mind obtuse art films, in fact I usually enjoy them, but this was a waste of 96 minutes! The main character mumbles through the whole movie inaudibly. If you don't know the Kurt Cobain story pretty well, upon which this is loosely based, don't go to this movie for help with the tragic true story-you'll be lost. You don't know who or in what relation to Blake(Cobain) the characters have or of what importance they are. The private investigator for instance is pretty important, as was with the real life investigator in Cobain's story-but you'd be unable to tell that from this film. Why are these freeloaders in Blake's house? Who are they?Cobain actually left a drug rehab in California and was missing for 7 days before found dead in his garage in Washigton state of an apparent suicide. The only clue you have for this rather important bit of information, is the hospital bracelet around the wrist of the character Blake(Cobain). Van Sant takes terrible advantage of his viewer-I don't mind working a little to understand the story of a film or book but the writer/director has to throw a bone to their viewer/reader. Van Sant doesn't through the whole film-his style is self serving and egotistical, the title alone speaks to that-Gus Van Sant's Last Days?? Puhleese. I though the film was supposed to be based on Kurt Cobain.You care nothing about any of these characters, know nothing about them. Kurt Cobain deserved a better story, fictionalized or not. His is the classic, sad, tale of the junkie artist so I was hoping for a Sid & Nancy type tragic junkie bio story or even a fictionalized piece that's rough and vulgar like Trainspotting was. Folks there's nothing here-this was a lousy film with a waste of some good actors like Lukas Haas (boy in Witness). I must however compliment Michael Pitt (Blake), for his incredible body movements and portrayal of a very stoned person it was impressive and at times sadly funny-it's just a shame you couldn't hear his lines.