The Last Seven (2010)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Wonderful character development!

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

After reading a few plot summaries on 'The Last Seven' i was expecting a low budget Brit post-apocalyptic flick, maybe reminiscent of other Danny Dyer films in terms of action and storyline. Its not that. One plot summary even mentioned political turmoil and climate change disaster. Once again its not that at all. This is more of a thriller/mystery. Just without the thrills.7 people meet up with each other one by one in a deserted London, each confused of the situation they find themselves in and suffering from amnesia. The story leads onto who they are and why they are there and how their stories through flashbacks intertwine.It is not the worst film i have seen, but it doesn't come close to being OK either. The first ten minutes are repetitively tiresome and the most watchable part is the ending. The acting is below par at best, the religious referencing is yawnful which made me drift off during most dialogue. Its main positive is the short runtime of 84mins. The scenes of a deserted London can be quiet eery at times, but the atmosphere falls short of being sinister or concerning.Although i was mildly entertained, nothing that interesting happens I'm afraid. Not what i was expecting through the marketing of this film.If you like this watch - any other Danny Dyer film.chriswatkins68 - 3/10

I despair for the British horror film genre. I really do.In the space of just a few weeks I've watched this and Dead Cert, two prime examples of films that had promising premises but totally ballsed it up with inept direction and editing, lousy dialogue and rounded off with some truly pathetic acting.I grew up in the 60's and 70's watching delights such as The Abominable Dr Phibes, Dr Terror's House of Horrors, Asylum, From Beyond The Grave, Tales From The Crypt, Frightmare, House of Whipcord, Scream and Scream Again, Theatre of Blood and many more.These films had real actors, decent scripts, filmmakers who knew and understood the genre, not fly-by-nights trying to make a quick buck by dolling out any old rubbish.Apart from Severance I haven't seen a decent British horror film in ages, and if today's filmmakers keep serving up crap like The Last Seven then my despair looks set to continue.The Last Seven is amateur night crap, avoid!

Reading the synopsis I had quite high hopes for this movie which was rapidly vanishing after the first 15 minutes which consisted of a bloke walking around the deserted streets of London's financial district. The long drawn out fifteen minutes of nothingness may impress someone who has never walked those same central London streets at Dawn on a Sunday morning but it doesn't really work for someone who has. I got the distinct impression the makers were trying to force a point here which went way past its premise of a deserted major City. The obviousness of it had me concerned for the rest of the movie.Eventually our lone walker meets up with a trio, and they meet up with another trio and from there on in there's a lot of long drawn out scenes with intermittent quick flash editing that was intended to scare or intrigue. Im not really sure which but it didn't work.While I have no doubt most of the seven cast have decent acting abilities, their performances were wooden. Mind you its not as if they had anything meaty to really bounce off so those performances were really down to the directors vision. You cant just put some people in front of a camera, give them some lines and hope for magic, particularly with a movie like this which should provoke the audiences senses. Then again a number of lines in the script are quite appalling, as if they were written by a secondary school drama club. But surely the director must have known those lines were just plain bad and could have done something about them.For me the movie just plodded along until it came to a point where I was jeering for it to end. I had twigged on quite early their particular circumstance but how it lead to that I didn't know until the very end, so I do give the makers some points for that. In general though it was a rather garbled affair. Yes, it has a sense of continuity but it wasn't glued together very well. Its a movie that may very well have looked just smashing on paper, but hasn't translated so well to the screen.As indie movies go it is by no means the worst, far from it. Its shot quite well, does have some atmosphere, and can keep you interested. If you haven't seen something in this genre before it may well keep you very interested. But I've seen a lot of these psychological horrors flicks and this one falls short of the mark. Compared to another one I reviewed 'The Broken' now there's a movie that really gets to you on a psychological level. One of the death scenes in that movie still makes me feel uncomfortable a year after watching it. There no gore, its just incredibly moving? or disturbing? I cant really describe what it is. If The Broken cant scare you nothing will.I cant recommend the movie and I cant not recommend it. As I said, if you haven't seen this type of flick before you may very well enjoy it.

I found this to be an enjoyable film, well acted, filmed and with an intriguing story which takes some time to develop and also to fully comprehend.The scenes showing a London devoid of people were amazingly well done and set the tone and feel of the film rather well.This film did however, in my opinion, seem to borrow heavily from two other films, 28 Days Later and the New Zealand film entitled The Quiet Earth. To be fair, any film set in London where the population has disappeared is going to inspire comparisons to 28 Days Later.If you are looking for an action based film like 28 Days Later you will be disappointed, this film centers around the effects on survivors rather than horror, although there is an underlying threat ever present throughout the film.The ending contained a little bit of a twist but it made sense when taken into context with the rest of the film. In conclusion, I would happily watch this again.