In an act of masochistic boredom I actually watched the entire two and a half hours of this film so I am not being hyperbolic when I say that almost every single scene in this movie did not make any sense.
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PennyForMyThoughts6 June 2020
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I think the plot or storyline is pretty decent. But the way it was executed was horrible. Changing of scenes felt abrupt with no flow ; found myself questioning who is who. A confusing, yet really slow movie that makes you question if you should continue watching.
Interesting idea behind the plot, but what a shame. -
ThomDerd7 June 2020Usually I write positive reviews but for this movie I specifically wanted to add a review so none else lose their time the way i did watching this. First of all the runtime... why do you take 2,5 hours to develop and conclude this story without actually developing the story itself and its characters..?! Directing...Olivier Megaton is actually a good director, but here he didn't pay too much attention in the editing or directing. Scenes are scattered and disconnected, with random parallel stories which do not deliver anything extra to the film. They just tire the viewer. The violence... is only used to provide "action" to the slow-burn and dull storyline. The story itself... the idea is not bad, the delivery and the stretch of the idea to make it a 2,5 hour long movie; yes that's very bad. Acting...here it is actually 50/50. Some moments are rewarding but not enough to save this film. Overall, I m rather upset that someone spent all this money to create such a time-consuming, violent and pointless movie. 2/10 , don't waste your time.
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bukowski-659515 June 2020Bad writing, bad filmmaking, bad acting, no chemistry. Boring, tiresome, slow.
Truly the worst of Netflix.
2.5 hours long! Oh my god.. I'm not sure if anyone will see the ending. I made it 58 mins in and had to shut it off, once I realized the action was as bad as every other part of the film.
How far will you make it!? -
saeedco5 June 2020Very bad story line, very bad acting. The Title is a scam..
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steve112355 June 2020Watch paint dry, this could be the worse film on Netflix.
Netflix films had been getting better, not sure why they are buying awful films that would have been in the bargin bucket in blockbusters in the day.
The film will probably get a cult following from being so bad. -
The name is appealing however at a point I felt like that this was another movie produced, written, directed by our very own Tommy Wiseau.
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DaegT1 April 2021I do buy the concept of this story. Such an inspiring and original one. Yet the director should have elaborated it more. Now turned out it's not romantic, not heroic, not stunning and no twisted ending. Many plot holes and rough edges. Personally I would say it's not bad to kill your time on Saturday night with this movie. It's just.... I expected more of it.
Iconic concept can't really guarantee an iconic movie. -
vipadham5 June 2020The worst movie i have ever seen. Shame on you Hollywood and Netflix. The title has been wasted on this movie
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Gordon-1130 June 2020It tries to be a big heist thriller, but it is just too long and boring.
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RosanaBotafogo12 June 2020I liked it, good, but it doesn't have to be that long, a good script, plot and performances, action, ingenious, nothing sublime, but entertaining, good...
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classicsoncall18 January 2021I can't believe the 3.6 IMDb rating this film has as I come here to write this. You same folks gave "The Old Guard", another Netflix project, a 6.6 rating, and that one is no better or no worse than this one. Not that you can't pick out the flaws, but for action/adventure fans, there's a lot of explosions and bloodshed to go around here. That's not actually what I come to a picture like this for, but you sort of have to go with the flow.
So the working premise is that the government will soon implement what's called an API signal that will inhibit the criminal mind from committing unlawful acts. When the switch is thrown, all police authority in the country becomes moot, and the FBI remains in sole charge of maintaining law and order, such as it will be. As the date draws near, the window of opportunity for outlaws, and specifically the protagonists in this story, narrows for executing one last heist. Graham Bricke (Edgar Ramírez) is sought out by a crime kingpin's estranged son (Michael Pitt) via his sexy girlfriend (Anna Brewster), to join a convoluted scheme to rob a billion dollars in old and new money before the API signal is implemented.
Granted, this film didn't require two and a half hours in the telling, but how else would Bricke, Kevin Cash (Pitt), and Shelby Dupree (Brewster) get into and out of so many impossible situations. Even a couple of FBI guys on the take have a hand in the story, making it possible for Shelby to rescue her sister from some situation that isn't made clear. With the clock running down, there are enough double crosses to go around in order to leave one last man standing. Well, make that one last woman standing.
That API signal by the way, was described earlier by Kevin Cash, who said it was a molecular modulation of the pre-frontal cortex, which sounded to me a little like a lobotomy. Which reminded me of a line from one of my old time comic books about an interplanetary assassin named Nexus, who once said "I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy". And as for the basic plot of the story, I do have a major reservation about the government implementing a program to void criminal behavior. I mean, how would Congress ever come up with a majority of it's members to ban what comes naturally. -
TurtleReviews5 June 2020This film clocks in at around 2 and a half hours long and it simply can't keep the viewer invested that long, the characters are dull, the plot of the film doesn't Make much sense at all and the biggest name in the film is a minor character at best. If you like good action Heist films this will probably not satisfy you in anyway.
If you want a great heist movie with plenty of heart and decent acting go watch 'The Town' which is also on Netflix. -
neil-454-6358285 June 2020Decent story if it had been done right. Some ok parts.
Overall, irritating acting. Boring characters. Tries to hard.
Netflix pushing quantity over quality. Again. -
doc-m-atef9 June 2020The movie suffers from horrible acting, long unreal action scenes, a plethora of plot holes and has NOTHING to do with the stopping of the american crime
I recommend not to watch with all my heart, those are 2 hours and a half you'll never get back! -
elliotjeory5 June 2020It sounds like an interesting concept but unfortunately it falls into the seen-it-all before category. Cliche scenes and nonsense dialogue. No likeable characters and the main one has a one expression face which I found irritating. It won't keep your attention and it's not worth the time.
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mojo_visa5 June 2020Caused a permanent eye sore. Bad writing and stupid plots. Doesn't qualify to be produced.
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erizzle226 June 2020Don't read unless your not going to watch! 2.5 hours to long. Movie picked up in the 4th quarter with some good action. Main character dies after stealing 1 billion, where did the billion go??? Well the main characters girl may have walked away with $100K stuffed inside her bigger than average purse. More money on the check of $350K the main character got during that exchange the she did not take off the guys now dead body. Do not watch this movie. This 2.5 hours would have been better spent saying goodbye to my family on my death bed!
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I am not entirely sure why there is such extreme negative criticism of this film. It is a well made film based on a graphic novel that is in a style of classic American crime and action films with a dystopia police state future. It reminds me of films like Shoot 'Em Up, Crank, Death Race, and Children of Men. It is great to see studios putting effort and budget into adapting non family friendly graphic novels.
People really need to realize that giving such harsh reviews unnecessarily to films adapted from graphic novels will only discourage studios from adapting more comic books/graphic novels into film.
Aside from a few slow moments in the film it is actually a decent crime action film that's well shot, well acted, and you can tell they took it seriously. Also Michael Pitt was great in this film and feel he was the stand out actor in his role.
I've read a lot of negative reviews based on police brutality and riots being in the film which is the dumbest excuse to give a film negative reviews. So you're telling me that the people who started making this film years ago were trying to make a film that was what, mocking our current state of the country?! Good movie, don't over think things and just enjoy a cheasy action movie. -
Who cares what happens to anybody in this film? No story, just a bunch of scenes where the stars say random lines to try and sound profound. How did anyone in good faith ever hand real money(not monopoly) to someone for making this utter drivel.
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I did enjoy watching this film. Edgar Ramirez did a great job and so are most of the cast. Not the best film out there but it sure is entertaining for fans of action flicks and the like. Now for the bad reviews, I understand that a lot of young kids has got easy access to Netflix nowadays especially during this time of the pandemic where everyone is usually at home 24/7. This movie is not for Kids, hence they shouldn't be reviewing this film. I gave it 8 stars for the fact that the kids who put out their reviews have underrated this film. Watching a movie while on your mobile phone at the same time doing facebook is not gonna let you enjoy watching this film or any other film for that matter.
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All is in the title. This is a typical american action movie, not the best out there but nothing justifies that people are rating it 1 or 2... It's an average 6-7 according to me. There is a lot of action and the story is quite good, plus that fear of some kind of "big brother" government is still an actual thing. There is no reason not to listen to that one if you're just based on bad reviews.
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Netflix has blessed (or "blessed") us with yet another crime blockbuster, this time one directed by Olivier Megaton ("Transporter 3", "Taken 2", "Colombiana"), who's no stranger to action movies. The critical acclaim has never been real high for him, and, sadly, "The Last Days of American Crime" is within the same ballpark as all his movies before. Personally, this is my least favorite chapter in his filmography.
In a not-too-distant future, as they put it, U.S. government is a week away from activating a signal that will make it impossible for people to go against the law, any and all law. It will do so via brain rape, just try lifting a gun or shoplifting a snickers and you'll freeze and shake uncontrollably. You probably can hear the sarcasm and irony already, so yes, I did not enjoy this movie a lot. Besides that particular interesting and far-fetched idea, it's a highly conventional and thoroughly mildly frustrating crime flick romp, featuring plot and characters based off ancient blueprints. Some characters are no more than a mere sketch, like the one given to the guy I was excited to see the most, Sharlto Copley. His storyline went down the mill and down the hill. First half an hour is mostly pure and simple exposition, and the action doesn't even change gears until 70 minutes into already. There's all the usual romance and subplots, all of which end up just about where You expect them. The melodrama at play here really ticks all the most typical and overused boxes. Movie's real enemy, though, is its runtime. It is way too long for its own good, way too long and featuring way too little, clocking in at 2 hours and 20 minutes & that's not counting titles. A story of this depth and this quality usually deserves maybe a 100 minutes, maybe, and even then it still is what it is. At the very least, I was expecting a good heist factor. Everything leads up to it, only for me to understand that it's the wackiest, most unexciting heist movie ever. Frankly, the heist plot and even the crime-stopping-signal plot matter very little in the big picture of "The Last Days of American Crime". They say the graphic novel this movie's based on, is great and all. I don't know about that, but the adaptation certainly isn't great.
The Positives? Acting. No award material on the horizon, but decent portrayals of dry characters, with the highlight probably being Anna Brewster and Michael Pitt, though Pitt's character is not easy to like. Next positive would be big budget. Movie looks arguably good, though still, by all means, it's undoubtedly an uninspired blockbuster. Crisp, contrastive cinematography, sometimes overkilled in editing, we also got explosions, raging guns, crashes and whatnot. The typical drivel, it just happens to be well made here. And original score, soundtrack - also decent. For a big part, the movie is pretty macho, many male characters are like that, boys, and if there's one truth in this world, it's that boys will be boys. The original score, being rocky and bluesy, went hand in hand with that. As for the soundtrack, it reminded of "Sucide Squad", because it had good songs, but no good reason to use them whatsoever. "The Last Days of American Crime" ended with Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" - kind of a waste on a two-bit cliché ending like this one.
It's a movie of no originality, but it's not exactly bad at being a well made conventional crime thriller, I mean as conventional as it gets, despite its sci-fi-ish backdrop. It shoots itself in all the rest proverbial knees by making itself a 2 and a half hour experience, major mistake there. Regardless of the runtime, but even more because of it, I don't recommend watching this brick of a movie. My rating: 5/10. -
hassanabab8 June 2020Nothing is professional with this movie. Don't make my same mistake of watching it