The Last Winter

PG-13 5.5
2006 1 hr 41 min Horror , Thriller

In the Arctic region of Northern Alaska, an oil company's advance team struggles to establish a drilling base that will forever alter the pristine land. After one team member is found dead, a disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the others as each of them succumbs to a mysterious fear.

  • Cast:
    Ron Perlman , James Le Gros , Connie Britton , Zach Gilford , Kevin Corrigan , Jamie Harrold , Pato Hoffmann

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Reviews

Hellen
2006/09/11

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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KnotMissPriceless
2006/09/12

Why so much hype?

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Nonureva
2006/09/13

Really Surprised!

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Chirphymium
2006/09/14

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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bombersflyup
2006/09/15

The Last Winter was kind of nuts, lacking a solid story or ending. The first half of the film was completely absent. Then it did start to become interesting and I had to look at the run-time, because it couldn't of had much time to build on this and I saw it was going to be a struggle. It got me invested, but it had no time or want to explain or resolve itself. The ghostly creatures didn't look too good and what they were doing I have no idea. Hoffman and Elliot were the only real quality characters of the bunch, some of the characters barely had lines. Definitely wasted potential.

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Alex Pickard
2006/09/16

To be honest I wasn't expecting much going into this film, yet was pleasantly surprised about it for about the first 45mins. As with all isolation movies, there is a profound sense of eeriness, and there are particular things (such as the box from the previous expedition, and a strange log book) which, I thought, were going to be good set ups for more mystery further on in the story. The acting wasn't by any means bad either. Ron Perlman was, well, Ron Perlman, and James Le Gros did fairly well as his opposite. It wasn't even that the characters were unlike-able or underdeveloped.But there certainly is a distinct point in the film where everything well and truly turns on its head. And from there it is all down hill.It actually baffles me completely that a film can go from eerie and interesting, to ridiculous and plain stupid like flipping a light switch. It was like the writers got to a point and said "hmm, we haven't killed many people yet. Probably should drop the storyline and do some character culling." Then proceeded to make completely irrational decisions that left you screaming at the screen in frustration. The biggest flaw in this film is that it never returns to the eeriness it started out with. Instead it decided it needed to go cliché and kill off characters in ways that were baffling. They never circle back to the set ups that they originally established, so leave you thinking 'well, what was the point'. And there is none!I am serious. The end of this movie has absolutely zero relation to the main storyline! And don't even get me started on the final shot. Whoever did that stroke of genius deserves a bullet. Overall my experience of this film went a lot like this: 'Cool. Oh yup. Hmm creepy. Oh yup. Ooo nice! Hmm, interesting. Wait, what? No seriously, what? WHY!? What the f**k. What the hell, just use the dead guys jacket!! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?? ....Are you serious. What,the,f**k. Let me guess, that's it? ...Yup damn. Well that was terrible.'As most people have stated, it was a film that showed serious potential but threw it all away by sticking its head up its own ass. Watch the first 45mins and walk away. At least the questions you have won't be shadowed by the unnecessary questions we are force fed at the end.

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GL84
2006/09/17

When members of a remote Arctic drilling site begin behaving oddly and show signs they're potentially going insane, the few unaffected workers try to get the others to safety before they come face-to-face with the source of their condition.This one was an absolutely putrid and paltry effort that really offers very, very few areas of worthiness. One of the biggest offenders here is the absolute lack of urgency in trying to contain whatever it is they're facing at the site. This is mainly due to the fact that it's still never explained what's going on beyond just the ice-caps melting, but this is given explanations from a released Indian spirit rampaging and revenging them for the exploitation of it's land to the natural gases released during the exploration of the area, yet even if either of those situations is true, there's absolutely nothing from them to get out of the area at all, which is quite curious overall since there's certainly evidence of something going on and no one's reacting to it. Even moreso, hardly anything happens here to really indicate something's going on when it does occur, leaving this one so poorly paced that it's just so boring most of the time the lack of urgency comes across even more. The finale picks up considerably with a few decent action scenes and even some nice encounters with something, but it's just too little too late.Rated R: Graphic Language, Violence and off-screen sounds of sex.

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devilmadeson
2006/09/18

The Last Winter seems to be a conscious update of Peter Weir's The Last Wave, both with themes of humans cracking under the strain of an environmental crisis. This doesn't cover substantially new territory, but succeeds in an atmosphere of dread, and events that leave you guessing: is the crew suffering from gas exposure? Hallucinations? Is a dark spirit from the Inuit mythology to blame? LW does a nice job of balancing these possibilities, letting you be the judge. Ron Perlman is good as the gruff, by the book boss who looks after his crew, James LeGros is a very serious environmentalist who is no more ready than the others for events that defy his rational mind, and several of the other characters, while needing a bit more depth, do good work with what they have. The film has been criticized for a rather vague ending, usually from the people who always want a big rubbery monster to show up and then get conveniently killed, resolving everything in an instantly forgettable climax. But, if you care to exercise that brain behind your eyes, you may find the questions of Last Winter lingering long after explosions and FX are forgotten.

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