Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

pseudonamedhero This came out during a string of American blockbusters about threats to the world, which always end in an American hero saving the day under improbable circumstances and CGI. It struck me as really Canadian to instead imagine "What if the world was about to end, and there was nothing we could do about it but accept it as inevitable? What would we do with our final time here?" I love that it's not about WHY the world is ending - the details of why are not important, or how the exact time is known. It is about giving a context to see how different people would react to such a situation, the decisions they would make, who they would want to spend time with or things they might want to do one last time. There are some great actors in this film giving believable performances, and it gets you thinking about how you might react to such circumstances.One of my favourite films.

U.N. Owen Don McKellar directs/wrote/stars in one small movie that asks us... what is REALLY important? The world is about to end (how is irrelevant) and we follow a (seemingly) random bunch of people as they fill their last hours.On one level they all want to make dreams/desires/fantasies they've held onto happen. Our main character, Patrick Wheeler is caught between fulfilling his parents plans and his own.I don't want to give too much of this simple, beautiful and heartfelt movie away, but I think it boils down to a question of opening ourselves up - to be less alone - and to let love in. I think that one thing Mr. McKellar is trying to say is that the power of love - true love (NOT lust) will get us through - no matter what the obstacle.I've seen this movie several times, and am the last person to be swayed by big Hollywood films that try to "steer" you to "feel" for their characters. Last Night is NOT an action picture. It moves slowly, and builds to an ending that never fails to bring some tears to my eyes. I hope you enjoy it is much as I do.

Michael O'Keefe Don McKellar writes, directs and stars in this dry humored drama dealing with the end of the world. Citizens of Toronto deal with the world's coming to an end at the stroke of midnight and new millennium. Some celebrate with violence, some vandalism; Patrick Wheeler(McKellar)suffers through a faux Christmas reunion. But he wants to spend that last moment alone in his apartment. Sandra(Sandra Oh)tries to get across town to commit suicide with her husband. A gas company employee(David Cronenberg)spends his time making courtesy calls. Craig (Calllum Keith Rennie)hopes to achieve sexual satisfaction with a special list of women...a black woman, a virgin and his favorite old teacher(Genevieve Bujold). Patrick finds Sandra at his doorstep wanting to use the phone. He tries to help her home, but as the final moments of time ticks, the two are pointing pistols at each other's head. I almost gave up on this film twice; but there was still something about it that kept me watching. Like a bottle of Scotch, LAST NIGHT requires an acquired taste.

john1250 i just like to add to your evidence #1 ###1. The film never mentions WHEN the people found out the world was going to end. They very likely could have known about the impeding doom for *****months or even years***** in advance. I'm sure after an initial state of panic, things died (no pun intended) down to the state we see in the film.### I just like to say that they couldn't have been informed earlier than a few weeks, the information of the end of the world. As you saw (i hope) at the beginning of the movie, while Sandra Oh was shopping that the shop still had, not lot, but some foods left on the shelves. Especially why i think that the people got informed of the tragedy in a less than a month is because of the conditions of the food and the champagne evenmore the clearness of the shop. If they got informed of the news as you said "...months or even years..." there will be no food left in the shop, even more surprising fact is that the shop wasn't out of food. even that they were informed "...months or even years..." earlier. Thinking logically, people stopped working a "...months or even years..." earlier, there will be no food coming in but considering the fact that there is still chunks of food left, not chunks, but big pieces like fine champagne, they couldn't have been informed in advance "...moths or even years..." earlier the end of the world.