April 14, 2009
boring sums it up
Connie Britton, James LeGros, Jamie Harrold
In the Arctic region of Northern Alaska, an oil company's advance team struggles to establish a drilling base that will forever alter the pristine land. After one team member is found dead, a disorien...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 22, 2008
Stats: 531 reviews
Flixster Reviews (531)
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April 14, 2009Somewhat effective thriller, somewhat slow drama and somewhat comparable to 'The Happening'.
Not bad but not developed enough to be really good.
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April 14, 2009Man oh man this looked so promising. Usually I like these but this movie was a waste of time and totally boring. The cast was pretty good, Ron Pearlman is the man and I enjoy his movies...the story was ok...but the execution was soooo sorry. Sigh...I had so looked forward to watc...( read more)
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April 14, 2009A very long, dull plod through material that's already been covered by movies like The Thing and 30 Days of Night. The only difference is The Last Winter is far slower, and it carries an environmentalist message that it stuffs happily down your throat. Watch it for CGI mutant g...( read more)
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April 14, 2009An odd film. Hints of an interesting premise but it never completely congeals. Decent performances across the board.
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September 19, 2009Even from the beginning this movie showed potential, good acting, interesting characters and very nice cinematography. And as strange things started to happen the atmosphere became more and more eerie.
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September 13, 2009Every generation has its end-of-the-world hoax craze and many movies feeding on that trend. The atomic age, the cold war age, the virus age etc. It seems that we are living in the climate change hoax age, something that is only believed by people who watch to much television and ...( read more)
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July 6, 2009I am amazed that I made it through this entire movie. I was really hoping that there would be some point by the end of it all, but I was horribly disappointed.
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June 23, 2009For a dark themed movie, this movie was fun. It?s very much a thinking person?s horror movie or a supernatural thriller. These subject matter is deep and the setting and lack of real character development limits where this can go ? and that?s the point. The character dynamics are...( read more)
Critic Reviews
September 28, 2007
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
September 17, 2007
David Edelstein, New York Magazine
The Last Winter was shot in northern Iceland and Alaska, and despite some too-explicit imagery in the final moments, the claustrophobia-to-psychosis continuum is harrowingly fluid. full review
September 5, 2007
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine
What with his interest in using B movies as vehicles for intelligent political and psychological inquiries, Larry Fessenden is the type of genre craftsman easy to champion. full review
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