The Last Sentinel (2007)

Director:

Jesse V. Johnson

Writer:

Jesse V. Johnson (writer)

Genre:

Action | Sci-Fi

Tagline:

The last of the warriors could now be our last hope.

Plot:

No emotion. No fear. No pain. They were the perfect soldiers to protect civilization-until the drone police became the perfect enemy...

Plot Keywords:

Soldier | Explosion | Sword Fight | Rain | Flashback

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Don 'The Dragon' Wilson	...	Tallis
Katee Sackhoff	...	Girl
Bokeem Woodbine	...	Anchilles
Keith David	...	Col. Norton
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Peter Allas	...	Angry Cop
Matthew R. Anderson	...	MSgt. Washington
Steven Bauer	...	Drone Scientist
Levi Harrison	...	Young Soldier
Joe Hess	...	Operator #2
Maddy Howard	...	Reporter
Erken Ialgashev	...	Angry Gunman
Dawnn Lewis	...	Angel - Tallis' Rifle (voice)
David Mattey	...	Super Drone
Caryn Mower	...	Drone Scientist #2
Tamas Nadas	...	Drone Fighter
Philly	...	Hound Dog
BooBoo Stewart	...	Young Tallis
Nils Allen Stewart	...	Trinny
Jerry Trimble	...	Last Human Cop
Austin Vaccaro	...	Operator #1

MPAA:

Rated R for violence.

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

USA:R | Singapore:M18 | UK:15

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Gorilla Pictures

Trivia:

In the last fight scene David Mattey, who plays the Super Drone, was wearing a suit of armor and prosthetic appliances on his face and full colored eye contacts, the type that surround the whole front of the eye, greatly restricting your vision. To add to the difficulty the scene was filmed in the rain and at night. Mattey ended up being a better swordsman than his stunt double, who ended up sitting out the scene.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Tallis and the girl jump out of the window, and Tallis blows a hole in the street so they can fall into the sewer. There is a shot from under the water that shows them hitting the water and then swimming back up to the surface, but the next shot shows them stand up and the water level in the sewer is only knee deep.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Angel - Tallis' Rifle: 'It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.' Albert Einstein made that statement when the steam powered locomotive was still a wonder of technology. I wonder what theory he would have had for the mess mankind has made of things now...
[...]

Movie Connections:

References Star Wars (1977)

Oh. My. God. What a bad movie.

This is the worst movie I've seen in some time. It starts off with a mildly interesting -- if rather unoriginal -- premise: Man's technology has turned against it's creator. This has been done a million times, of course, but it can still yield an entertaining action flick if done well.

This was not done well.

The script must have been painful to read. I would feel sorry for any actor asked to work with such excrement. To see Don Wilson and Katee Sackhoff, both of whom have much more potential, forced to wade through this quagmire was just sad. You know you've got script problems when the best dialog comes from a crazy, talking gun.

A plot would have been nice, too. And, no this movie doesn't have a plot. It has a premise. There's a difference. The entire movie consists of: "These are the bad guys. They shoot at us. We shoot at them." There were endless scenes of running and gunning, with a few scenes of sitting talking about the next/previous run-and-gun scene.

One major annoying aspect was that the movie couldn't seem to make up it's mind if Katee Sackhoff was supposed to be the tough, independent type or the "maiden in distress" type.

The absolutely gratuitous and completely unbelievable romantic parts were just pathetic. It was like somebody said, "Insert a romantic gesture here." Monotonous sets, and only two of them. Footage was re-used. Annoying, obvious clichés (storm troopers in masks, bad guys who cannot hit anything they shoot at, tracking device in the skull). Outright contradictions in places.

The only reason I give it 2 and not 1 is that the pyro effects and sets, while totally uninspired, were at least competently done.

The best part of this movie is the ending. Not the final scenes -- the fact that it ended.