Arnold Schwarzenegger never sweeps in to save the day. The clock is ticking. It's almost over. There's nothing to be done about it. Canadian filmmaker Don McKellar, best known for scripting The Red Violin , is a theater director at heart.
Last Night resembles an absurdist theater workshop documented by cameras for posterity.
Although cinematically uninteresting, Last Night is bursting with profundities struggling to manifest themselves. Despite the presence of David Cronenberg and a few other familiar names, the cast never figures out how to play to the camera. Often, the production resembles an earnest, talented, semi-professional theatrical, not a film. But that's no reason to ignore Last Night , perhaps the only quiet apocalyptic film of the past few years. Here, Canada greets Doomsday with relative sobriety and a guitar jam in a Toronto stadium hosted by Randy Bachman.