The Last Scout (2017)

After the earth is destroyed by war, a scout team of astronauts searches the universe for an inhabitable place to save the human race.

Director:

Simon Phillips

Writer:

Paul Tanter

Stars:

Blaine Gray, Simon Phillips, Rebecca Ferdinando

Cast

Credited cast:
Blaine Gray	...	Jon
Simon Phillips	...	Pete
Rebecca Ferdinando	...	Hayley
Deji LaRay	...	Mike
Rita Ramnani	...	Jane
Paul Thomas Arnold	...	Gerry
Peter Woodward	...	Edward
Mercedes Synodis	...	Lila
Kevin Chua	...	Jay
John Chang	...	Captain
Chris Rymer	...	Crewman
Petra Bryant	...	Melissa
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jon-Paul Gates	...	Emotional husband
Matt Laumann	...	Crewman
Amanda Lewandowski	...	Pegasus (voice)

Storyline

2065...With Earth rendered uninhabitable by war, humanity's remaining survivors send a fleet of ships to different points in the galaxy in the hope of finding a new world. After seven years of travel and long since out of communication range, the crew of The Pegasus are nearing their destination when they encounter a derelict ship. As tensions on board rise and they struggle to complete their mission they soon realize that they are not alone and must fight for their survival - and the survival of the human race.

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Plot Keywords:

search | low budget sci fi movie | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Did You Know?

Goofs

The screw Mike dropped while working outside the spacecraft appeared to be a wood screw with tapered threads along its entire length. One is more likely to use a screw with machine threads which can replaced in the same hole with matching threads. Wood screws cut their own threads each time they are used..

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Quotes

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...

User Reviews

Half of a great movie...

For a low budget movie, this film had great acting, an understandable plot, and believable dialogue -- for the first half of the film. The cinematography was very good considering the budget, except it was often way too dark, probably to hide the lousy sets. The score was pretty good, too. But those sets and props, wow, pretty bad. Clothes dryer vents hanging from the ceiling, and the crew was wearing 3M respirators freshly painted over with shiny spray paint and snow boots for their spacesuits. And the ship was held together with tapered wood screws!

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)

Details

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Country:

UK Germany

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 March 2017 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Last Scout

Filming Locations:

England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

$3,200,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Runaway Features, Templeheart Films, Knusperstein Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

107 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39:1