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LAST NIGHT Send This Review to a Friend
Don McKellar's film is set in Toronto on the last night before the planet comes to an end, which is not a moment too soon. How the world ends isn't specified, but we take it on faith that in six hours it will all be over for humankind. In real film time that is 93 minutes, which unfortunately does seem like six hours.
The characters around whom McKellar focuses his musings on what the lives of people would be like under such a sentence of doom are uninteresting and hardly worth following whether in these circumstances or in brighter ones. A few watchable moments are managed, thanks to a brief appearance by dependable Genevieve Bujold as a former French teacher who has sex with her ex-pupil. Despite the other efforts of cast members, including McKellar himself, Sandra Oh, Callum Keith Rennie, Sarah Polley, and even minor participation by David Cronenberg, the events and the conversations drag.
"Last Night" also makes much of unruly crowds massing for the countdown much as people gather to celebrate in Times Square in New York on New Year's eve. Actually, there is cause to celebrate for the audience--when the screen finally goes blank. A Lions Gate Films release.
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