Last and First Men

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A futuristic movie with bare visuals, a Gregorian style chant in the background and the soothing voice of the wonderful Tilda Swinton giving the history of a neo human race on a dying earth. This is definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but I found it both relaxing and stimulating, whilst making you think. A thumbs up from me.

It shows a collage of scenes of stone structures. Everything shown has no relation to the narration. It is unbearably slow, and I watched it at three times the speed. It's horrid beyond imagination.

This is not your typical work, its ART, its meant to divide, the owrk in itself tackles existential ideas while being experimental like La Jetee by Chris Marker and other film which i found uses a meta narrative: Lessons from Darkness (1999) by Herzog Please dont listen to the gold sized people in the comments ramming zeros for this it was good and the soundtrack was otherwordly

I watched it when it stell had a 6/10 score but hey - it soon will loose that! Why? Because its no movie - just Tilda Awinton narrating a story that you better read thru the subtitles file. Thats faster and you son't loose 1:10h watching. Because even watching is boring - all they show is huge rotten concret sculptures. Thats interesting for 5 minutes but than its boring! And its all grey, theres no colour at all! So better read the subtitles to find out if this narration has and sense, but after reading it all its just a shallow story with no real end. Don't waste your time!

Another reviewer said it. This is is not a movie which is much of the reason for the dislike. There are no moving images. There is simply panning over still figures while the narrator speaks, telling a classic SF story written in 1939. It's old sf and it has no traditional story either. The story itself is not to everyone's taste so neither is this "visual audio book". The story is not boring to most SF fans, but as a MOVIE, sure it is. Because nothing moves. There are no actors. It's not really a movie at all in the normal sense. It's one of the most unfilmable stories ever written.

I have to say that the acting in this monochromatic and monotonous movie is so poor you just end up listening to the narrator (Tilda Swinton) droning on in her upper-class English accent. The filming and special effects were also somewhat limited. I thought they might try to salvage it in the last five minutes with a wicked plot twist, but it was not to be. I guess that the people behind this long cinematic yawn were friends of Tilda's.I rated it 1 because it's got some interesting monuments in it. I've been very restrained in writing this. Good night.

It looks like this has been made by a hippy on lsd. Awful and self indulgent rubbish. My one regret I have to give this a one star

This is not a typical movie so if you are looking for something different, try this. It is completely driven by the deep and complex story revealed in the narration. Very abstract visually. Most people won't 'get' this movie - but if you want to go on a philosophical journey into the nature of consciousness, give this a go. I recommend a 420-friendly approach. The view that said this 'has nothing to say' must have not been paying attention, because the story is vastly more complicated than any mainstream sci-fi movie.