The Last Scout
- 2017
- 1h 47m
After the earth is destroyed by war, a scout team of astronauts searches the universe for an inhabitable place to save the human race.After the earth is destroyed by war, a scout team of astronauts searches the universe for an inhabitable place to save the human race.After the earth is destroyed by war, a scout team of astronauts searches the universe for an inhabitable place to save the human race.
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Pete: I love you very much. And I need you to... keep a secret for me. Can you do that? Okay, lean real, real close, real close to the monitor. I need you to tell Hayley that I'm sorry... I didn't tell her everything. I should have already told her. Okay, can you do that for me? I haven't got very long. Do you understand? Don't be sad, baby. Everything's going to be okay. I lo...
- ConnectionsReferences Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Okay, they couldn't afford props. But as I said the acting was well above what you normally see in these cheap films. Plus there was actual character development -- the audience really got to know who those folks were on that spaceship. With real, natural dialogue.
But about midway through the film, it completely falls apart. It's like two different people wrote the first and second half of this film. It starts off as really great straight science fiction movie with a real, consistent plot and characters. Then halfway through, it turns into a snuff film. And the plot scenarios just kept getting more and more ridiculous -- one improbably situation after another. And in the second half of the film, none of the behaviours of the characters had any motivation or grounding in reality, whereas in the beginning, their actions were consistent with their characters and the situations they faced.
Another great thing about this film was that it was very progressive on race. This very small set of characters included a black man, and he had a romantic relationship with one of the (white) female astronauts. There wasn't any hint of derision or bias that I could detect. I'm adding a couple of points to my rating for this fair treatment of race.
My recommendation is to watch the first half of this film until they have the code orange. (It's explained in film -- it happens about half way through.) After that, just turn it off, and write your own ending. It has to be better than what they did to the second half of this film.
triggers: gory depictions of corpses; gory violence; gun (laser) violence
rating 7/10 (for the first half); (submitted July 5, 2020, 1:55 a.m. EDT)
- ulisses_phoenix
- Jul 5, 2020
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- Budget
- $3,200,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 47 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1