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The Last Winter

  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 41m
IMDb RATING
5.5/10
10K
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The Last Winter (2006)
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Sent to evaluate the environmental impact of oil drilling in the Arctic, James Hoffman clashes with the drilling crew's chief, who wants to get the job done.Sent to evaluate the environmental impact of oil drilling in the Arctic, James Hoffman clashes with the drilling crew's chief, who wants to get the job done.Sent to evaluate the environmental impact of oil drilling in the Arctic, James Hoffman clashes with the drilling crew's chief, who wants to get the job done.

  • Director
    • Larry Fessenden
  • Writers
    • Larry Fessenden
    • Robert Leaver
  • Stars
    • Ron Perlman
    • James Le Gros
    • Connie Britton
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.5/10
    10K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Larry Fessenden
    • Writers
      • Larry Fessenden
      • Robert Leaver
    • Stars
      • Ron Perlman
      • James Le Gros
      • Connie Britton
    • 114User reviews
    • 90Critic reviews
    • 69Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Ron Perlman
    Ron Perlman
    • Ed Pollack
    James Le Gros
    James Le Gros
    • James Hoffman
    • (as James LeGros)
    Connie Britton
    Connie Britton
    • Abby Sellers
    Zach Gilford
    Zach Gilford
    • Maxwell McKinder
    Kevin Corrigan
    Kevin Corrigan
    • Motor
    Jamie Harrold
    Jamie Harrold
    • Elliot Jenkins
    Pato Hoffmann
    • Lee Means
    Joanne Shenandoah
    Joanne Shenandoah
    • Dawn Russell
    Larry Fessenden
    Larry Fessenden
    • Charles Foster
    Oscar Miller
    • Simon Marshowitz
    Hálfdán Theodórsson
    • Gary
    Eggert Ketilsson
    Eggert Ketilsson
    • Frozen Trucker
    Jack Fessenden
    Jack Fessenden
    • Young Hoffman
    John Speredakos
    John Speredakos
    • Weatherman
    Halfdan Pedersen
    • Doctor Pedersen
    • (as Hálfdan Lárus Pedersen)
    Darren Foreman
    • Oscar Miller
    • Director
      • Larry Fessenden
    • Writers
      • Larry Fessenden
      • Robert Leaver
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    User reviews114

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    7averyjohnson-51252

    Good attempt at threading the contemporary with supernatural

    I'm a big fan of remote, icy movie settings, especially in horror; so it's possible that I'm being generous with my 7/10 rating.

    This movie could have easily been spoiled with climate change preachiness, but the contemporary messaging was balanced with suspenseful dread and growing hints of the supernatural. The lead character (Perlman's Ed Pollock) is overbearing and unlikeable, but not comically so, and there was enough depth in other characters to assist the story.

    If there is one criticism, the ending could be thought of as leaving too little to the imagination. Overall a nice way to spend a snowy night at home.
    4claudio_carvalho

    The (Weak) Answer of the Nature

    The American oil company KIC Corporation is building an ice road to explore the remote Northern Artic National Wildlife Refuge seeking energy independence. Independent environmentalists work together in a drilling base headed by the tough Ed Pollack (Ron Perlman) in a sort of agreement with the government, approving procedures and sending reports of the operation. When one insane team member is found dead naked on the snow, the environmentalist James Hoffman (James Le Gros) suspects that sour gases may have been accidentally released in the spot provoking hallucinations and insanity in the group. After a second fatal incident, he convinces Ed to travel with the team to a hospital for examination. However, weird events happen trapping the group in the base.

    "The Last Winter" is intriguing, beginning like "The Thing" blended with "An Inconvenient Truth" in wonderful locations in Iceland. Then the story shifts to a rip-off of "The Shining", ending in a complete and disappointing ambiguous mess. Ron Perlman plays an unpleasant character, and it is impossible to feel any empathy for Ed Pollack. It seems that the unknown director and writer Larry Fessenden was also affected by the hallucinogen gas of the story and end the movie completely mad, showing a weak answer of the nature in spite of having a plot with great potential. My vote is four.

    Title (Brazil): "Colapso no Ártico" ("Collapse in the Artic")
    7Mean_Joe_Weeks

    Good effort undermined by some bad choices

    Larry Fessenden's "The Last Winter" is a ambitious and smartly made film. It's photographed beautifully and (by and large) acted with conviction and sensitivity. Though the central conceit about nature "taking revenge" is pretty corny, the atmosphere is also pretty compellingly bleak, and the tension mounts pretty effectively as things go from bad to worse. Sadly, as many other reviewers note, the ending throws it all away in a fit of awful CG monsters.

    However, try turning it off right at one hour 27 minutes and 30 seconds. This would have been a solid albeit ambiguous ending; if you must watch further do it on a second viewing and consider it a deleted ending. It's just goofy and pointless, and the final "twist" at the end is telegraphed almost from the very beginning (in fact, one character early on describes aloud exactly what the twist will end up being).

    Even without the ending, the script has problems with its petty black-and-white portrayal of heroic environmentalist and selfish oil guy. An ensemble atmosphere pic like this lives and dies on the believability of its characters; Perlman's Ed Pollock is simply too villainous to really be convincing, despite a few nice touches of humanity which Perlman brings to him. Le Gros' Hoffman is also a pretty unengaging hero, a blandly heroic saint of a guy who's always right about everything. I'm a serious environmentalist and a left-leaning guy, but the film's literal take on the situation (the dire warnings of natural disaster, the clear heroes and villains) is shallow at best and preachy and patronizing at the worst. It plays to the most obnoxiously self-congratulatory nature of people concerned with the issues presented here, while at the same time offering nothing of any real substance.

    Still, the film itself is a pretty fun watch, and a definite step up from Fessenden's previous effort, the ambitious but amateurish "Wendigo" (the titular spirit of which gets name-checked here too!). Great photography combined with naturalistic acting from the likes of Kevin Corrigan and Zach Gilford do much to sell the vibe of the thing, and the setting and slow escalation of the action also add to the experience. Regardless of its stumbles, the film has loads of ambition to do something substantial and enduring, so even when it can't quite deliver on its promise it still beats the slew of cheap-scare horror remakes which every year become more numerous.
    Dethcharm

    Snow Blind...

    THE LAST WINTER is a cold, hope-destroying creeper of a movie. It has a thick atmosphere of mounting, inescapable doom. Though it is a bit preachy, wearing its politics clearly on its parka sleeve, it's also a well-told horror story. It's sort of like a frozen version of SESSION 9.

    The only true quibble would be with the use of dubious CGI. Though it's understandable, it still takes us right out of the movie due to its artificial appearance. The argument can be made that simply not showing the supernatural menace would have been far more effective.

    The film's biggest asset is Ron Perlman as the strong-willed, ultra-dedicated Ed Pollack. Perlman always gets the job done, and his role is pivotal.

    Recommended for lovers of the insane and terrifying...
    bettycjung

    Disappointing ending.

    6/18/18. It was ok at its start. Almost like a cross between The Thing, Event Horizon and Alien. Decent EFXs, and then POW! -Not a very good ending.

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    • Trivia
      Film debut of Zach Gilford.
    • Goofs
      When they try and leave the scene where they discover the grader 'n tanker truck, they discover that their snowmobile won't start because it has 'lost all its oil'. That particular sled had a two stroke engine which uses mixed fuel (no crank case oil as in all four stroke engines) so this would've been impossible.
    • Quotes

      James Hoffman: [from his journal] Empathy with the land. This we learn in childhood. The land has changed. The biosphere turned; has become unfamiliar and erratic. I would say eventual, but nature is indifferent to us. We fight for our survival, not nature's. There's a fierceness in the world that we never felt before. Something is being unleashed in the softening permafrost. Why do we despise the world that gave us life? Why wouldn't the world survive us, like any organism survives a virus. The world that we grew up in is changed forever. There is no way home. Is there something beyond science that is happening out here? What if the very thing we were here to pull out of the ground were to rise willingly - confront us. What would that look like? What if this is the last winter, before the collapse? And hope dies.

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      My Baby Just Cares For Me
      Written by Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn

      Performed by Nina Simone

      Published by Donaldson Publishing Co. / Gilbert Keyes Music Co. /

      WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)

      Courtesy of Bethlehem Music Company, Inc. & Steven Ames Brown

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    • Release date
      • September 24, 2008 (Italy)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Iceland
    • Official sites
      • Official site
      • Production company site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Poslednja zima
    • Filming locations
      • Iceland
    • Production companies
      • Antidote Films (I)
      • Glass Eye Pix
      • Zik Zak Filmworks
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    • Budget
      • $5,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $33,190
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $8,090
      • Sep 23, 2007
    • Gross worldwide
      • $97,522
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 41 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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