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Title: The Last Winter (2006)
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| Cast overview: | |||
| Ron Perlman | ... | Ed Pollack | |
| James Le Gros | ... | James Hoffman (as James LeGros) | |
| Connie Britton | ... | Abby Sellers | |
| Zach Gilford | ... | Maxwell McKinder | |
| Kevin Corrigan | ... | Motor | |
| Jamie Harrold | ... | Elliot Jenkins | |
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Pato Hoffmann | ... | Lee Means |
| Joanne Shenandoah | ... | Dawn Russell | |
| Larry Fessenden | ... | Charles Foster | |
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Oscar Miller | ... | Simon Marshowitz |
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Hálfdán Theodórsson | ... | Gary |
| Eggert Ketilsson | ... | Frozen Trucker | |
| Jack Fessenden | ... | Young Hoffman | |
| John Speredakos | ... | Weatherman | |
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Halfdan Pedersen | ... | Doctor Pedersen (as Hálfdan Lárus Pedersen) |
The American oil company North Corporation is building an ice road to explore the remote Northern Arctic National Wildlife Refuge seeking oil. The independent environmentalists together with the base leader, Ed Pollack, reach an agreement with the government, approving procedures and reports of the operation. When a team member is found dead naked on the snow, the environmentalist James Hoffman suspects that gases may have been accidentally released from the drill site provoking hallucinations and insanity in the group. After a second fatal incident, he convinces Ed to travel with the team to a hospital for examination, however, people continue to die. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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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.