O Último Dia

Dark moody and no fun it makes me wonder if any Swiss are happy. I wish I could take my time back and suggest you avoid this one.

Starting with a sex scene the way this movie does shows me no one has confidence in this movie so they need to do something to grab your attention. I hate when movies rely on cheap nudity to get attention. And they'd be right to have no confidence in this film. The characters are so uninteresting I've forgotten them all already.

The other great crime is the fact they have made impending disaster in this film boring. It takes a rare Lack of talent to make incoming disasters boring but they've achieved it here.

Not a good look for Switzerland here, all I can think is they're boring but hedonistic. Don't waste your time.

Ten people directed this snoozefest. No explenation of why the storm is there (CERN maybe?). Characters seem totally uninterested in the whole ordeal. We don't know what happens when the storm hits and by the time it does hit (which we don't see) the movie ended and I didn't care anymore. Maybe the storm is there to get rid of Switzerland for being such a boring country, who the hell knows at this point.

I thought the premise had promise at first. Switzerland is experiencing a natural disaster which threatens the entire country, all at once. How do different factions of society cope? The film has multiple plot threads which reflect various parts of Swiss society, but the involvement of multiple directors results in zero plot cohesion. This, combined with the abrupt ending prior to the storm actually hitting, means we don't really learn anything about Swiss society at all. Natural disasters as a framing device for social commentary can work well, but the director has to take an editorial view. This movie ultimately doesn't really say anything, other than possibly pointing out the drawbacks of not being an EU member.

A gigantic strom developing over Switzerland works as a backgroung for a boring, uninspired and badly written film that slowly crawls to an end that should have arrived at least 1 hour earlier. Photography is ok, but that´s all. Avoid it.