Last Days

Last Days is a sanctimonious, obnoxious and misguided movie about a sanctimonious, obnoxious and misguided person. The film is based on the last few years in the life of 26 year old missionary John Allen Chau who foolishly tried to bring faith to the natives of Sentinel Island without proper preparation and was killed. If this plot sounds familiar, it is, the terrific 2023 documentary The Mission was also about Chau, but where as that film was an objective and thoughtful meditation on how religious zealotry and a jesus complex led this misguided kid astray and to his own demise and encouraged us to not be as reckless as Chau was, this film treats his recklessness as an aspirational virtue. That’s offensive but the greater sins of Last Days are the unlikable and poorly acted lead, dull and slow pace and terrible filmmaking by the otherwise quite capable Justin Lin. Last Days feels more like decades. 

I Give It 0 Stars!!!