The Last Boy on Earth

Even knowing that this was a collection of shorts, I still stopped watching as the second short began. The first short seemed to be set in the Blade Runner universe but the characters were depressingly bad with no interesting story element to make it worth it. The next story lost me when it started taking about prophesy. Basically, it started with boring stories with confusing cuts of the kid mixed in. It was a chore to get through even as far as I did. I had no desire to wade through the sludge with the potential of no payoff. I have tried that with too many bad movies. So I stopped early but was still very frustrated.

I assumed this was a full length movie. The story kept on changing but one constant was a boy in a room which it kept on going back to so the film was making no sense. All the scenes were well done with very good special effects all the actors were people i didnt know. Because it was a set of shorts and i wasn't aware it it made watching it really hard work a bit like watching a david lynch movie.

By the time I got to the end i still never worked out how the boy in the movie was tied to all the stories as i could not see a link. Its only when i saw the credits and it started listing all the different shorts directed by different people that i realised it wasn't one film.

This really sucks. If i had known going into it that it was a set of shorts i would have been happy to watch it and enjoyed it more but instead i was left wondering what on earth was going on and this ruined it. At this point i dont care what ties all the shorts to the boy in the room. Not worth wasting your time unless you like shorts.

This is not a movie, but rather half a dozen short stories with little link to each other except "dystopian future."

The shorts themselves are done pretty well for the most part, but with the expectation that this is a movie, you'll be looking for a coherent connection between the different scenes. There really isn't one, and even the (presumed) connecting story interspersed between the other ones never goes anywhere.

The sets and acting are actually good, as well as the special effects. The sound was all over the place, requiring drastic changes on my television to keep up with it in different shorts. The music was uninspired, and mimicked the Blade Runner aesthetic which also was also blatantly ripped off as a setting for one of the shorts.

Would have rated this higher if the summary had been honest. But then I probably wouldn't have watched it anyhow.

In short: frustrating collection of pedestrian pseudo scifi shorts that will leave you feeling conned into watching.

Commendable effort for the most part, given that these are all obvious extremely low-budget.

But the end result is a very, very, very lacking patchwork of unintelligible crap.

The gimmick of having "The Boy" film cut into snippets used as interludes between the other shorts was a clever way to fool some viewers into thinking that this was actually a full-length feature, but it only ends up multiplying the frustration you feel at the end, because there is no relationship whatsoever between the different films.

The shorts themselves look like school projects. And not very good ones at that. There is no plot to be found here anywhere. And there is no purpose or pathos to any one of the shorts. This is not movie-making, it's just mimicking of worn-out scifi tropes.

IMOP this script had an awesome possibility. The actors were vg. Not sure what happened in on the editing or financial chopping block of budget, but again IMOP, this could have been awesome. I am a sci-fi fan, and this movie had several ways to be the new "Train to Busan".

Not sure what happened.

The script was split, but the actresses and actors were on point!

There was so much possibility from this film. The film was very good. However, the script as filmed seems " confused".

The lighting, vg, costumes, vg.

The bottom line is there were not the story, edited and shown in a smooth way.

The thief? The demons? The kid? No cohesive info in the film. Where there absolutely COULD have been.

Sad.