The Last Boy on Earth

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.

I do see a thread through the shorts but it was very well hidden and even then I was not sure until late in the movie. But before that I had no clue what was going on and did not like having to try to figure it out. I do not care for movies like this nor do I seek them out, so I feel this movie is just one big trick from the title, description, and film.

I also, do not like that it is under Sci Fi. Very little of it is actually sci fi. It should be listed under fantasy and Horror. Then again, since it is a rag tag film of different things I can understand the difficulty of putting it in any one primary category. So, lets just put it in under Films you do not want to waste your time on.

So this film is very very confusing. It is essentially 100 trailers to 100 completely different sci-fi films to horror and all between. A story never unfolds, every clip lasts about 5 minutes. Some are ridiculously weird and overall it was a complete waste of time just like reading a kafka story for example. The serial killer robot was hilarious. Seriously, he was trying to be all serious explaining how a serial robot was accidentally created - haha that should be checked out by any sci-fi buff. Although only a 5 minute segment, that clip had potential to be the next chucky franchise. The rest, although a lot of money had been spent on the sets, costumes and special effects they are just a random mash of nonsense. Still I sat through it scratching my head through but I have to admit I was never bored or tempted to turn it off.

The bad reviews not rely on the quality of the Short-Compilation, they display the dissapointment that it was not a movie like expected.

If you know that this are only shorts you will like most of them! They are not low-budget and habe good effects and even BlackMirror-like content. I dont like all stories and don't see a connection between them all but 4 or 5 of the 6 I really enjoyed, so this bad rating is just not fair and just unfair emotions of people who didn't know what they will get. Especially number one is a nice short-movie and have a very good athmosphere. Please leave a review to balance out this unfair bad rating.