Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 70
Fresh: 66 | Rotten: 4
Critics are raving about Last Resort, saying it's a convincing, touching tale. Particularly impressive is the lack of script during the film's shoot.
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 23 | Rotten: 0
Critics are raving about Last Resort, saying it's a convincing, touching tale. Particularly impressive is the lack of script during the film's shoot.
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Average Rating: 3.7/5
User Ratings: 1,176
Last Resort opens as Tanya (Dina Korzun), a young Russian traveling to England with her son Artiom (Artiom Strelnikov), is questioned at a British airport's passport control. Tanya tells the official she is visiting England on a vacation, but then switches her story and says that her English fiancé is meeting her, and finally, out of desperation, asks for political asylum. She and Artiom are duly packed off to an immigrants' center in a grim coastal town, where they are given a small apartment
PG-13, 1 hr. 13 min.
Feb 23, 2001 Limited
Shooting Gallery Films
All Critics (76) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (66) | Rotten (4)
One of the few films to get at the ways in which single mothers and their sons alternate being authority figures.
Dramatically low-key, Last Resort is beautifully acted, with striking realism.
Gives grim and gritty a good name.
Moving and eerily beautiful.
Pawlikowski ... renders the events of Last Resort so unsentimentally that they unfold with the authenticity of an affecting documentary.
Fasten your seat belt, and don't blink for a second.
The intimate, unadorned performances add a realistic immediacy to entire piece.
Pawlikowski and his cast have been honoured for this film at festivals across the continent, the greatest award for them would be for you to watch and think.
A tragic but quite educational tour of the Western countries' refugee process.
An unabashed, if subdued ode to star-crossed lovers everywhere.
What was missing for me was a story that was engaging or interesting.
This quiet film gains its power from small moments and unforced, convincing performances.
"Last Resort" does not have the feel of a fictional piece, but instead appears to be unfolding as the events occur.
I can?t get enough of Paddy Considine, this tragic love story is one of a very topical theme. I?m sure it won?t be to everyone?s taste, because of the politics of the theme and it?s quite a slow moving plot, but performance wise all three main characters were supurb.
March 28, 2007Super Reviewer
i heard abotu this on the radio and decided to watch it. i thought it aws very sad. the ending was good. it wasnt fun but it was about poverty and stuff.
January 10, 2007
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