I had just finished Bayonetta and I was set to review it being that it is ‘of the now’ and I like the blog to have at least a little modern content (since I watch so many old hat movies) but the game turned out to be so...average and so inferior to Ninja Blade (I'm serious it was probably one of my fave games of last year I really didn't get why no one liked it) so I'd much rather review this fucking awesome movie. So sorry it's second best, again, but enjoy!
Once again another apology at to the probable poor quality of this review being the fact that I'm banned off the mac it's probably been over 24 hours since I've watched this movie, so if you thought the Escapist review was bad, this one will be ultimabad.
Okay, Last Order's a social realist piece of British Cinema (what a surprise) surprisingly though it doesn't portray a decaying Britain full of drugs and wife beating. This is kinda, social realism for real people. Pints at the pub and stumbling home, a little bet on a horse race, picnics and having affairs and growing older and having children. Those kind of things, which are a lot more common, at least in the British society I live in.
So by now you're probably expecting the movie to be pretty damn boring and well, you're probably right but I bloody loved it, if you're American or a teen you'll probably get nothing from this, but I got a lot. Probably down to the fact that the cast is made up of pretty much every British actor you'd ever heard of, it’s like a wet dream for a British film buff like me. If it was a bunch of actor's you'd never seen before you'd probably only find yourself bored, I mean why would you be interested in their normal life stories? But the fact you get the presence of people like Helen Mirren, Michael Caine and Ray Winstone you're actually pretty damn interested in the stories of their ordinary lives as you start to wonder if it was based on real life stories of the actors.
So basically a man named Jack dies, so Jack's adopted child and three of his friends travel across Britain to go to Margate to scatter Jack's ashes, these were Jack's 'last orders' and along the way these four, Jack and the people related to him unravel and we're presented characters who are more than characters and a story that's more than a story. This is like watching a biography, it's fantastic if not a little slow as back stories for some characters can be massively far apart and a little unbalanced as some characters get less time than others.
Like for example, Lucky portrayed by Bob Hoskins. Lucky is a short man with a big willy who has a gambling problem and is really fucking lucky. Yeah it sounds like an archetype admittedly but with all the flashbacks across your life you start to think you're watching Bob Hoskin's life story. Like when his daughter leaves for Australia when she is 18 creating ruptures in his marriage. It doesn't have much to do with Jack himself, but it adds something extra to his character, it shows a lot of care.
So should you watch it? It's probably aimed at an older audience since all our main characters are old (although to see Kelly Reilly playing a young Helen Mirren manages to satisfy multiple fantasies at once) and their lives unfold from the 20's to modern times. It doesn't have lots of CGI and stylised fights (but there is a war, navy and punch up sequence with really bad sound effects) and of course this is a British movie to the extreme of it, so probably not for American's.
Think about it!
-Locke.
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