The Last Days (2013)

The Worst Film Ever

Overrated and overhyped

Best movie ever!

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Apocalyptic movies are some of the most overdone, repetitive, and terrible movies that keep being created, and that is coming from a huge fan of the genre. Unlike most other apocalypse style movies "The Last Days" pulls out new a creative conflict that is not often considered instead of using one of the vanilla end of the world scenarios. "The Last Days" does a phenomenal job of creating relatable and believable human conflict that drives the characters to make decisions that in turn drive the story. The mixture of successes and failures experienced by the characters blends beautifully into the story and leaves you feeling the same emotions as the protagonist. With that in mind the special effects are not great but are not used enough to degrade the story at all. A must watch for any apocalypse fan.

Realistic, compelling, insightful - these are not usually the words used to describe post apocalyptic movies, but they fit this one. Set in Barcelona, a world wide pandemic of agoraphobia strikes and people are stranded at work, in shops, in their homes. Marc and Enrigue become an unlikely team in that each is stuck at work and they need to reach their girlfriend and Father respectively.Both Spanish actors do a credible job of playing their roles, without some of the corny, expected actions you get in movies of this sort. Aside from the world wide agoraphobia, this movie makes you think this could really happen.The back story emerges as Marc is reminded of the past - especially the recent past when he learns that his girlfriend is pregnant. (And of course his last conversation with her was that he wondered how anyone would want to bring a new life into this screwed up world. Way to go Marc, you know how to say the right thing at just the right time.) At the time he did not know she was pregnant.There is plenty of tension as they make their way through the sewers of Barcelona to seek their loved ones, but this movie does not produce a lot of those "jump out at you" scares that are common in these types of movies. The movie was better for their absence.But what really makes the movie is the uplifting ending. I won't tell you what it is, because this movie is worth seeing. But you will feel the love and hope portrayed at the end. An ending worthy of Dean Koontz.I have a list of apocalyptic movies to watch - I'll be surprised if any of them surpass this one.

reminiscent of films along the lines of i am legend and 28 days later, this is the story of our population forced to survive something as simple as going outside. this was a wonderful comment on how reliant we've become on technology and how we're taking our earth for granted and mistreating it. it gave a glimpse into a society that has been brought back to it's roots. it was a beautiful film that showed how well people can band together, but how they often times fight as well, even in the face of danger. the film was well acted also. the two male leads gave a wonderful performance. Quim Gutierrez gave an amazing performance as Marc. the settings, despite a majority of them being inside, were gorgeous.

I had high expectations about 'Los últimos días' as Barcelona is not precisely an habitual setting for sci-fi films. In the end, though, the setting was one of the main problems for me, or rather, the absurd pilgrimage that the Pastor brothers force their characters to undertake. I know that New Yorkers must be used to having the geography of their city distorted on film but, believe me, there were 100 more solid alternatives to the erratic wandering of the two protagonists. I'm left, then, with some impressive moments, like the burning of a well-known city landmark and that lost deer.The film also suffers from the weakness of the last segment, which asks us to stretch our credibility to impossible limits by simply ignoring the many difficulties that trying to survive in a very hostile environment must entail.Quim Gutiérrez and Jose Coronado are, as usual, excellent but I wished Marta Etura had been given a more interesting role - or that she was the one in search of her lost boyfriend.