Product: Last Days (2 Disc Special Edition)
Rating: 1.0
A waste of time
I usually find watching movies a worthwhile activity. I often come across reviews where people complain that a movie was so bad they wasted 2 hours of their life they will never get back. I rarely feel that way. Watching "Last Days", I did.The movie is very tedious to watch. There's no plot to speak of. It consists of endless scenes of lead character, Blake, walking round mumbling to himself, and occasional scenes of pointless dialogue. Some reviewers have defended the lack of plot by saying the movie is a character study. But "Last Days" fails as a character study because it never lets us to get to know Blake. And a character study, too, needs something to keep the viewer interested."Last Days" was truly a waste of 93 minutes of my life that I will never get back. I have no idea how Gus Van Sant, who made "My Own Private Idaho", could make such a bad movie. Perhaps the movie is meant to be boring. Perhaps it's the point of the movie. Maybe Van Sant wants to make the audience as bored and frustrated as Blake is. If that is what Van Sant intended, the movie succeeds. But that doesn't make it worth watching and it still doesn't succeed in giving us any real understanding for the character. Recommended only to those who love movies where nothing happens and those who thought "The Brown Bunny" was a masterpiece. I'm glad I got it from the library and didn't pay for it.