The Last Face (2017)
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Critic Consensus: The Last Face's noble intentions are nowhere near enough to carry a fundamentally misguided story that arguably demeans the demographic it wants to defend.
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as Wren
as Miguel Leon
as Ellen
as Dr. John Farber
as Dr. Love
as Sarie
as Assatu
as Nurse
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"The Last Face" is the worst kind of good-intentioned noble failure, one that muddles its message because it tries too hard to tell it.
Rarely has a movie felt so simultaneously inane, stultifying and offensive.
Sean Penn turns African strife into a two-hour perfume commercial with The Last Face, veering between gauzy impressionism and shrieky melodrama with his latest directorial effort.
As well meaning as this movie is, it is also a turgid, muddled one.
Characters are undeveloped, dialogue is platitudinous and insincere, and even the leading roles are one-dimensional.
The Last Face spends so much time on the on-again, off-again romance between Bardem's Miguel and Theron's Wren, the African victims are all but nameless and faceless backdrops.
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The jumps in time prevent us from getting closer to its characters, and it is easy to understand why so many people hated this film when we see a cheesy love story between a white couple made more important than what there is to say about the horrors that happen in Africa.
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