Highly Overrated But Still Good

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Absolutely brilliant

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The Last Winter was kind of nuts, lacking a solid story or ending. The first half of the film was completely absent. Then it did start to become interesting and I had to look at the run-time, because it couldn't of had much time to build on this and I saw it was going to be a struggle. It got me invested, but it had no time or want to explain or resolve itself. The ghostly creatures didn't look too good and what they were doing I have no idea. Hoffman and Elliot were the only real quality characters of the bunch, some of the characters barely had lines. Definitely wasted potential.

To be honest I wasn't expecting much going into this film, yet was pleasantly surprised about it for about the first 45mins. As with all isolation movies, there is a profound sense of eeriness, and there are particular things (such as the box from the previous expedition, and a strange log book) which, I thought, were going to be good set ups for more mystery further on in the story. The acting wasn't by any means bad either. Ron Perlman was, well, Ron Perlman, and James Le Gros did fairly well as his opposite. It wasn't even that the characters were unlike-able or underdeveloped.But there certainly is a distinct point in the film where everything well and truly turns on its head. And from there it is all down hill.It actually baffles me completely that a film can go from eerie and interesting, to ridiculous and plain stupid like flipping a light switch. It was like the writers got to a point and said "hmm, we haven't killed many people yet. Probably should drop the storyline and do some character culling." Then proceeded to make completely irrational decisions that left you screaming at the screen in frustration. The biggest flaw in this film is that it never returns to the eeriness it started out with. Instead it decided it needed to go cliché and kill off characters in ways that were baffling. They never circle back to the set ups that they originally established, so leave you thinking 'well, what was the point'. And there is none!I am serious. The end of this movie has absolutely zero relation to the main storyline! And don't even get me started on the final shot. Whoever did that stroke of genius deserves a bullet. Overall my experience of this film went a lot like this: 'Cool. Oh yup. Hmm creepy. Oh yup. Ooo nice! Hmm, interesting. Wait, what? No seriously, what? WHY!? What the f**k. What the hell, just use the dead guys jacket!! WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?? ....Are you serious. What,the,f**k. Let me guess, that's it? ...Yup damn. Well that was terrible.'As most people have stated, it was a film that showed serious potential but threw it all away by sticking its head up its own ass. Watch the first 45mins and walk away. At least the questions you have won't be shadowed by the unnecessary questions we are force fed at the end.

This starts almost like an art film, but eventually it gives in to mass market urges that become more and more distracting, limiting and inappropriate. It has way too many quiet, somber tone-setting scenes that are obviously there to eat up time and delay narrative obligations, but after an hour they just kill the momentum. Finally, a completely risible, limp ending arrives, that will make you understand all the one-star ratings here. Funny thing about movies that seem to be withholding their point, they always end up not having one, and they go nowhere. As it ended, I thought; Hmmm. snow... melancholoy... hopelessness... is this a Danish production? And sure enough the end-credits are filled with dozens of Danish/Icelandic names.I was open to this films light touch and hoped it would be good. I was also open to a cast of second tier actors (James LeGros, Ron Perlman). But Perlman is over the top, and just becomes a shouting one-dimensional villain. That's not much to engage you. And when will film-makers finally learn; if you don't have an ending, you don't have a film... this ending is a travesty. The movie is derivative of just about every horror movie made in the past 30 years. The next time a ghost disappears over an edit, or when a light is turned on, I'm just going to pitch the DVD out the window.

It is set up in Northern Alaska with a crew that is supposed to be stalked by a unseen evil. After paying $10.00 for this movie and then setting and watching it for a 101 minutes, I ended up wasting money and time. This movie was awful I kept waiting and waiting for a scare or anything but it didn't deliver.When it finally tried to deliver it was if they were haunted by ghost moose???? You have to be kidding me. The special effects were even awful, they could have did a better job by far.Please do not waste your time or money on this movie.