Thursday 22 June 2023

THE LAST SENTINEL (2023) - A review

Dysotopian thriller THE LAST SENTINEL starring Kate Bosworth (Barbarian, Straw Dogs) is currently available on Amazon Prime, so thought I'd give it a watch and share my thoughts.

Set about 30 or so years into the future, rising sea levels have decimated most of the world's land masses, with the earths population crammed onto the only 2 remaining continents, who happen to be at war with one another. 

A group of soldiers from one of them are stationed at a military outpost in the middle of the ocean, waiting for their relief ship to arrive, so they can finally go home. But with the relief ship some 3 months overdue, tensions are running high as food and supplies are running low and isolation and loneliness are taking their toll.

When an abandoned ship drifts into range, the crew quickly become divided amongst those who think they should use the ship to leave and those who think they should stay until they are properly relieved. Particularly as the outpost has a nuclear device on board, which they don't want falling into enemy hands. 

The in-fighting quickly begins, but to make matters worse, it looks like someone might be sabotaging any efforts to leave, and paranoia quickly sets sets in as to whether one of them might be a traitor. 

A potentially interesting idea, set at an interesting location, the film unfortunately though proved to be a bit of a dissapointment. The plot was rather slow, dull and tedious, with no real likeable characters and is not really a film I would recommend to anyone looking for entertainment. Only good thing about it was the location/setting. 

The morbidly curious, or die hard fans of Miss Bosworth, can view the film on Amazon.co.uk

Here's the trailer...



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