The Last Eve

Shot on digital video and celluloid, this The Last Eve earns its reputation as one of the oddest indies out there. This South Korean/U.S. hybrid includes kung fu, Christian allegory, science fiction, and experimental cinema. With a mixture of humor (some unintentional) and narrative uncertainty, it attempts to reformulate certain Biblical stories into broadly written modern parables, some of them rather poorly acted. It has three sections, although they relate to one another through random biblical quotes. In fact, it was originally conceived as having a single narrative, but as the resulting film was too short, they had to append two additional ones. It ends up rather like a trio of short stories.

Its apocalyptic message is rendered with a heavy hand, though atrocious, low-budget special effects helps break up the tedium of the long first section. While original (at least according to Film Threat), it quickly becomes disappointing and then never succeeds in picking up the pace - or the pieces.

An extreme disappointment. It's an effective film if you want to catch up on your sleep.