Watch: The Last Winter 2006 123movies, Full Movie Online – The American oil company North Corporation is building an ice road to explore the remote Northern Arctic National Wildlife Refuge seeking oil. The independent environmentalists together with the base leader, Ed Pollack, reach an agreement with the government, approving procedures and reports of the operation. When a team member is found dead naked on the snow, the environmentalist James Hoffman suspects that gases may have been accidentally released from the drill site 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, people continue to die..
Plot: In the Arctic region of Northern Alaska, an oil company’s advance team struggles to establish a drilling base that will forever alter the pristine land. After one team member is found dead, a disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the others as each of them succumbs to a mysterious fear.
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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.
Eco-Terror Film With Muddled Message
This is one of those movies that builds, quite effectively to a suspenseful setup and then, disappoints. This repeats a number of times until the end and then it really disappoints.It’s as though the Director knows how to create an atmosphere of apprehension but fizzles on the finish line every time. There is enough here to keep you watching but ends up being a frustrating film filled with an unresolved feeling and a wanting for some sort, any, explanation for at least some of what is happening. The final shot has to be one of the most bland, what the? finishes in film history.
Ambiguity is a fine thing and can foster thought and search for insight. But here we have an Eco-terror film with a muddled message and worst of all an unconvincing, unresolved plot that is neither a convincing thesis or an entertaining ride to the edge of the tundra.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 41 min (101 min), 1 hr 41 min (101 min) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director Larry Fessenden
Writer Larry Fessenden, Robert Leaver
Actors Ron Perlman, James Le Gros, Connie Britton
Country United States, Iceland
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arriflex Cameras and Lenses
Laboratory Technicolor, USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Fuji Eterna 500T 8573)
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (master format), Super 35 (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic)