By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Michael Hoffman
Starring: Anne-Marie Duff | Christopher Plummer | Helen Mirren | James McAvoy | Kerry Condon | Paul Giamatti
Country: germany, russia, united_kingdom
Year: 2010
Running time: 112
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0824758/
Jason says: “THE LAST STATION is a perfectly adequate sort of historical drama. Nice cast in Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti, and Helen Mirren. Nice production values. Interesting subjects. You may learn something while watching it, whether in terms of history, literature, or philosophy, and it’s fairly entertaining.
“The thing is, it’s got James McAvoy in one of those parts he seems to specialize in: The ‘viewpoint character,’ whom the audience is meant to identify with, but whose storyline just winds up taking up space that could be much better spent on the actual interesting characters he interacts with. Here, the extent of his personality is that his character sneezes when he gets nervous. Yeah. That’s totally a reason to spend time on him rather than, say, Leo Tolstoy and his wife. Certainly, he learns from watching the Tolstoys’ loving but complicated relationship, but there’s very little we can get from him that we couldn’t get from the source. 3 cats
“Seen 19 February 2010 at the Coolidge Corner Theatre #1 (first-run)”