"Last Straw" premiered at the Brussels' International Fantastic Film Festival, at the main screen at around 10PM, and that used to mean something. Not even too many years ago, only quality horror films/thrillers with the potential to become cult classics played here. "Last Straw" offers everything but quality. The host at the BIFFF already warned the audience, though. He said: it'll be fun, it'll be gore, but you will have forgotten about it 15 minutes after you walk out of the theater. Well, I think he was far too gentle. It wasn't fun, it really wasn't that gore, and I want to forget about it as soon as possible.
The script has three insurmountable defaults: unoriginal, idiotic, and totally random. The plot revolves around a young and troubled waitress who must survive the night in a sloppy roadside diner while besieged from the outside by evil perpetrators with uncanny masks. How special; - I can at least think of half a dozen movies with the exact same premise. Secondly, and even more irritating, ALL characters are incredibly dumb and do the utmost random and illogical things. It's quite a challenge to point out who's the most loathsome and implausible character. The burger-flipper who transforms into a stone-cold killer, the kitchen help who doesn't realize that it's totally normal that his fingerprints are all over the place, the police officer who deliberately brings a person in danger by taking her outside for no apparent reason, or the lead girl herself who doesn't do anything right.
The script has three insurmountable defaults: unoriginal, idiotic, and totally random. The plot revolves around a young and troubled waitress who must survive the night in a sloppy roadside diner while besieged from the outside by evil perpetrators with uncanny masks. How special; - I can at least think of half a dozen movies with the exact same premise. Secondly, and even more irritating, ALL characters are incredibly dumb and do the utmost random and illogical things. It's quite a challenge to point out who's the most loathsome and implausible character. The burger-flipper who transforms into a stone-cold killer, the kitchen help who doesn't realize that it's totally normal that his fingerprints are all over the place, the police officer who deliberately brings a person in danger by taking her outside for no apparent reason, or the lead girl herself who doesn't do anything right.